Mutational Quotes

#1. the greatest mutational health hazard in the population is fertile old men. Thankfully, uniparental inheritance means that men don't pass on their mitochondria at all.

Nick Lane

#2. The obscure unease that Pluto has always inspired, a dog owned by a mouse, daily confronted with the mutational horror of Goofy.

Michael Chabon

#3. Our habits and our institutions, from language to cities, are constantly changing, and the mechanism of change turns out to be surprisingly Darwinian: it is gradual, undirected, mutational, inexorable, combinatorial, selective and in some vague sense progressive.

Matt Ridley

#4. Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don't let it leave until I extract that value.

Scott Adams

#5. It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#6. I'm not cynical, but I don't really want to have a boyfriend or husband again.

Alexandra Cassavetes

#7. In my few short years I learned that seeing what's positive about a situation is a lot more fun and gets you a lot further than looking for what might be wrong with it.

D.J. MacHale

#8. I whirl around, stare into his grimy,grief-stricken face. His face is beautiful and so good. How could I have believed he'd betray us?

Carrie Jones

#9. No goal is impossible. Some things simply take more effort, more time, and more improvising that others.

T.C. McMullen

#10. Mark Carwardine's role, essentially, was to be the one who knew what he was talking about. My role, and one for which I was entirely qualified, was to be an extremely ignorant non-zoologist to whom everything that happened would come as a complete surprise.

Douglas Adams

#11. He (Jesus) knew that the old eye-for-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with aggressive love.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#12. The sharing of a book is a statement - a message of affection that is also an act of self-revelation. Join my club, it says. Come and sit beside me.

Alexander McCall Smith

#13. I'd want to have a fair moderator. I thought that Mitt Romney was treated very unfairly in the third debate [in 2012].

Donald Trump