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've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Enough
  • Train
  • Seen

• 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

• He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Day
  • Protection

• 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

• Sometimes when I'm writing a superhero story I wonder if they really have to punch each other in the face. Is that really going to solve anything? I feel the same way sometimes when I watch episodes of Law & Order. I'm like, "Yeah, right. You found the sex offender and now everything is fine." TV is big on closure, but I think closure is horseshit in real life. I'm still haunted by stuff I did in my teen years when I think about it too much.

  

  Ed Brubaker
  • Writing
  • Law
  • Wonder

• There is only one possible future for humanity, and that is a sustainable one.

  

  Patricia Espinosa
  • Future
  • Humanity
  • Sustainable

• I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind of sound, acoustic guitar, bass, with violin and sometimes accordion, and the guys would sing, that kind of thing.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Kind

• I never had a girlLooking any better than you didAnd all the kids at schoolThey were wishing they were me that night.

  

  Jim Steinman
  • Kids
  • Night

• If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Mistakes
  • Discussion

• 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