Koonin's Quotes

#1. Whatever the degree to which Darwin may have "misled science into a dead end," the biologist Shi V. Liu observed in commenting on Koonin's paper, "we may still appreciate the role of Darwin in helping scientists [win an] upper hand in fighting against the creationists.

David Berlinski

#2. I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately.

David Johansen

#3. I missed you more now than I had when I lost you. I was forgetting the bad things faster than I forgot the good, and the changing ratio felt a little bit like falling in love even though I was actually speaking to you less and less.

Alexandra Kleeman

#4. Good girls get special kisses. Do you want to be kissed? he murmured softly.

Amelia Hutchins

#5. If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.

Lyman Abbott

#6. Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

Elizabeth Goudge

#7. FAT CHARLIE WASN'T CERTAIN THAT HE LIKED FREEDOM. THERE was too much open air involved.

Neil Gaiman

#8. In any case, Watson, you have turned out to be a prize flat-mate. I couldn't have asked for better.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#9. There's a use for everything and everything has it's use.

Kate DiCamillo

#10. Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so.

Timothy Noah

#11. The rolls of music that she herself had thrown into the trash with the pretext that they had rotted from dampness kept spinning and playing in her memory.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#12. We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.

Jason Alexander

#13. I gotta be involved. I still write ads; I still run around and rally the creative people.

Jerry Della Femina

#14. After a pause he says, 'Trust you to bring everything back to sweets.' He is a fine one to talk, him and his birds.

Marian Keyes

#15. Graphite also absorbs the shock of a hit. The first (graphite) clubs that came out were too flexible, but now you can get them to be just as firm as you want and need.

Bill Vaughan

#16. ... the delusion that because we are able to do what we "will to do" in acts that are habitual and involve familiar sensory experiences, we shall be equally successful in doing what we "will to do" in acts which are contrary to our habit and therefore involve sensory experiences that are unfamiliar.

F. Matthias Alexander