Uscimmo Quotes

#1. About 1.2% of the human genome is made up of genes, things that encode for proteins, the stuff that we consider us. There is about 8.3% that's a virus. In other words we're probably about seven times more virus than we are human genes, which is kind of a weird way to thinking about yourself.

Carl Zimmer

#2. The mind which relate clover with eminence, why forget to relate limitations with human ambitions.

M.H. Rakib

#3. It's people with obsessions who do the real harm in the world.

Dick Francis

#4. If the apple hit Newton's nose, Newton's nose hit the apple.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#5. When highbrow critics accused Time of practicing personality journalism, Luce replied that Time did not invent the genre, the Bible did.

Walter Isaacson

#6. E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")

Dante Alighieri

#7. I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.

Charlie Sheen

#8. Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.

Helmut Jahn