Monica Hesse Quotes

Genes are mysterious things, still unpredictable after all of our research, flecks of humanity that can destroy lives but, just as often, can teach us to appreciate the strange wonder of our existence.

Monica Hesse

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• I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Music
  • Giving

• I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • White
  • Though
  • Hispanic

• Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Humanity
  • Our
  • Egoism

• My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.

  

  Zendaya
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Date

• You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Good
  • Work
  • Artist

• Make-up is an extension of your clothes.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Up
  • Clothes
  • Your

• I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Good
  • Reading
  • Religious

• The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Simple

• As for whether Perl 6 will replace Perl 5, yeah, probably, in about 40 years or so.

  

  Larry Wall

• 'Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!

  

  Lewis Carroll

• Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached, he had a chance in the next bear market to buy back at one third (or better) below his selling price.

  

  Benjamin Graham

• All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

  

  Donna Leon
  • School

• I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • School
  • Learning
  • Son

• Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Money
  • Art
  • America

• Democrats should have learned in 2016 that what counts in American politics is location, not turnout.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • American

• I don't have a waist: I'm a breadbox on top of legs.

  

  Tyne Daly

• Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

  

  John Milton

• If I don't watch the news in a day, I think the potential for humanity is incredible. But anytime I look at the news, I'm like, 'We're in really big trouble.'

  

  Alicia Garza
  • Humanity

• Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Up
  • Universe
  • Humanity

• What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Jesus
  • Humanity
  • Buddha

• I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • People
  • Different
  • Too Bad

• Genes are mysterious things, still unpredictable after all of our research, flecks of humanity that can destroy lives but, just as often, can teach us to appreciate the strange wonder of our existence.

  

  Monica Hesse
  • Humanity
  • Wonder
  • Teach