Night After Night Lauren Blakely Quotes

#1. Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may say in plain words, "This riddle of life has been solved."

Max Delbruck

#2. He couldn't remember having been seventeen; it was something that must have happened to him while he was busy. But it made him feel like he imagined it felt like when you were seventeen, which was like having a permanent red-hot vest on under your skin.

Terry Pratchett

#3. The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

Tim Berners-Lee

#4. Decades go faster toward the end of a century.

Hortense Calisher

#5. There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here's betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent, so do you.

Jeffrey Kluger

#6. My idea of good poetry is any dog doing anything.

J. Boone

#7. Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

Raoul Vaneigem

#8. Whether he knows it or not, the middle-income American is taxed as though he were living in a socialist society.

Gore Vidal

#9. Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity - the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom - and reconnects with that world of Spirit.

Malidoma Patrice Some

#10. The best advice he gave me was to carry on. It would have been difficult to set foot back inside a TV studio if I hadn't carried on - I don't know if I would have ever gone back in.

Cilla Black

#11. I'm not a musician, I just play bass.

Bill Wyman

#12. The course that I have uniformly pursued, ever since I became a missionary, has been rather peculiar. In order to become an acceptable and eloquent preacher in a foreign language, I deliberately abjured my own. When I crossed the river, I burnt my ships.

Adoniram Judson