Jack Szostak Quotes

#1. It's like talking to the Mad Hatter about tea.

Rainbow Rowell

#2. I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.

Jack W. Szostak

#3. A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

Ryan Lilly

#4. The thing about the Nobel ceremony is that for a whole week, you get treated like a superstar. You get driven everywhere. You have minders who always make sure you get where you're going. And you always get into the back seat of the limo.

Jack W. Szostak

#5. The strings that bind you tight to the map of your life,

Stephen King

#6. I have generally sought to work on questions that I thought were both interesting and approachable, yet not too widely appreciated. To struggle to make discoveries that would be made by others a short time later seems futile to me.

Jack W. Szostak

#7. I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I'm 41.

Matthew Perry

#8. In my lab, we're interested in the transition from chemistry to early biology on the early earth.

Jack W. Szostak

#9. Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil.

Amit Abraham

#10. He is an innocent in the way that lonesome canaries are innocent, flitting from one branch to another, the tender flutter of their wings and a few millilitres of blood keeping them airborne against the gravity of this world that wants to pull everyone down to its rotting surface.

Mohammed Hanif

#11. Years ago R.N.A. was kind of a bit player in the cell. Now our picture's completely inverted, and we think R.N.A.'s really the important thing.

Jack W. Szostak

#12. Pain is the biggest power of love. That's what Wireman says.

Stephen King

#13. I was born in London, England during the great fog of 1952, but survived the coal-fueled air pollution with no ill effects and after less than a year in England was carried to Canada by my parents.

Jack W. Szostak

#14. We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.

Gordon Ramsay

#15. I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense desire to make some original contribution. And although I have had some degree of success as a scientist, it is hard to say precisely why.

Jack W. Szostak

#16. Our demons, they have a way of becoming self-fulfilling.

Eliot Pattison

#17. Three weeks ago one of my dreams came true. I finally got to see something I always wanted to witness live. I finally saw someone get hit by a car ... Nailed!

Dane Cook

#18. And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.

Miriam Makeba

#19. What do cells do when they see a broken piece of DNA? Cells don't like such breaks. They'll do pretty much anything they can to fix things up. If a chromosome is broken, the cells will repair the break using an intact chromosome.

Jack W. Szostak

#20. I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.

Jack W. Szostak

#21. 'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'

Carine Roitfeld