John Gurdon Quotes

My first attempts to transplant nuclei in Xenopus were completely unsuccessful, because the Xenopus egg, unlike those of other amphibians, is surrounded by an extremely elastic membrane and jelly layer that make penetration by a micropipette impossible.

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• Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Real
  • Me
  • Husband

• I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Idea
  • Lucky
  • Fan

• No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Religion
  • Italian
  • Renaissance

• I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Small
  • Church
  • Nebraska

• I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.

  

  Rain
  • Energy
  • Passion
  • Best

• Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • People
  • Best
  • Politics

• There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.

  

  Walter Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Football

• You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Life
  • Work
  • Broadway

• What is cool today is not going to be cool tomorrow, and what wasn't cool yesterday is going to be cool tomorrow.

  

  Zendaya
  • Today
  • Cool
  • Tomorrow

• I grew up with the 'Star Wars' movies since before I have many memories. We had them on VHS back in the day, so they were part of the fabric of growing up in my family.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• A deal is like chasing a girl. You work on it until she says, 'Yes,' for a date.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • She
  • Girl

• There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Nothing
  • Something
  • Thing

• In fashion design, you can divide people into two groups. You have people who come with an aesthetic that is there forever, even if it evolves. Then you have people I call 'jumpers.' One season it can be this; the next season it's completely something else. I always knew I am more of a jumper.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Forever

• Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Body

• Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by Political Economy, and to suggest means by which its advancement may be accelerated, but also to warn the reader of the nature of the following Treatise.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • May
  • Nature
  • Political

• People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There's the miracle of conception. I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption, and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Think
  • Miracle

• According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Broken
  • Poet
  • Mouth

• The answer is, of course, that it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the two rarely come together, anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Loved
  • Answer
  • Feared

• Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Past

• People are just obsessed with other people's lives. I don't know whether it's kind of a way to escape their own, or something to follow... I really couldn't tell you.

  

  Lauren Conrad
  • People

• My first attempts to transplant nuclei in Xenopus were completely unsuccessful, because the Xenopus egg, unlike those of other amphibians, is surrounded by an extremely elastic membrane and jelly layer that make penetration by a micropipette impossible.

  

  John Gurdon