Transcriptional Quotes

#1. Marco Polo has been kind of buried under this cloud of rather banal historical dust, when the true story is so much more exciting.

John Fusco

#2. Jess wasn't religious. Not even a little bit. She thought all gods were basically big bully-boy cops dreamed up by people who wanted the laws they liked on Earth to be true everywhere else.

M.R. Carey

#3. That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.

John Green

#4. After I arrived in Basel, I initially attempted to continue the project of my days in Dulbecco's laboratory, namely, the transcriptional control of the simian virus 40 genes.

Susumu Tonegawa

#5. I just didn't want to be fixed.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. Every new source from which man has increased his power on earth has been used to diminish the prospects of his successors.

C.D. Darlington

#7. Revolution is aimed at new arrangements; insurrection leads us no longer to let ourselves be arranged, but to arrange ourselves, and set no glittering hope on institutions

Max Stirner

#8. She was so cold, she probably farted ice cubes.

Cara Lynn Shultz

#9. There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad.

John Hickenlooper

#10. Thinking would keep me alive. But now I am alive and thinking is killing me

Jonathan Safran Foer