Proteiny Quotes

#1. [On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape, protoplasmic-ooze shape. A shape that calls straight through civilization to our reptilian brains.

Cynthia Heimel

#2. That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

B.F. Skinner

#3. I've got three brothers; I think all of them are good human beings.

Domhnall Gleeson

#4. Our democracy should aspire to be more democratic.

DaShanne Stokes

#5. I don't think they like the idea that the people who are buying the record get to choose what goes out, because it's their job. The fans even pre-ordered stock to make sure that I had some sort of presence.

John Otway

#6. I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

Steven Wright

#7. Wrestling's a form of expression, and it expresses vastness.

John Darnielle

#8. I don't think I will ever write about politics or foreign policy. I feel like there is so much good writing in those areas that I have little to add. I also like to steer clear of writing about people whom I do not personally like.

Malcolm Gladwell

#9. For some reason, the women in my life have always been extremely powerful. I've learned a great deal from that. I've learned that we're all women when we're complete and we're all men.

Frederick Lenz

#10. The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.

Benjamin Graham

#11. Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them.

Peter Cook