Albrecht Kossel Quotes

The living cell almost always contains, locked in its interior, the visible or invisible products of its physiological activity or its nourishment.

Albrecht Kossel

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• I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.

  

  Inara George
  • Up
  • Community
  • Mountains

• Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Play
  • Mean
  • Guitar

• Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Decisions

• Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Yourself

• I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • God
  • Think
  • Man

• I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Love

• I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Thought
  • Just
  • Phenomenal

• Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Power
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Imagination
  • Person
  • Gun

• I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Psychology
  • Observer

• Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Life
  • Sister
  • Writer

• Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Time
  • Win
  • Chess

• I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Important
  • Society
  • Most

• In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Moments
  • Made
  • Quiet

• I would say 'American Werewolf in London' is like an unconventional buddy movie: even if the buddy dies 20 minutes in, he still remains throughout the picture, and their partnership is one of the best things in the movie.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • American
  • Movie
  • Best

• When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Country
  • Truth

• To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• 'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Great
  • Quality
  • Painting

• The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean.

  

  James Franco
  • Work
  • Art
  • Guy

• I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right deep down into life and not caring a damn.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Life
  • Music
  • Believe

• I consider being a performer work. I come from a theater family; I've been an actor all my life. I started acting when I was a kid, and I've earned a living as an artist all my life. It's my job in the sense that it's everything I am, the only thing I know how to do. I literally do not have qualifications to do anything else on this planet. Seriously, it's scary. [But] I don't consider it a job [because] it's my religion - it's my faith, it's my family, it's everything to me.

  

  Torquil Campbell Broken Social Scene
  • Kids
  • Artist
  • Acting

• When I perform, I don’t think about the haters, the Internet trolls, or anyone else. I care about giving the person in front of me something they won’t forget. And that’s why I bring the cake and raft out.

  

  Steve Aoki
  • Experience
  • Care
  • Forget

• When kids start school, families often have little choice over where they can go. Sometimes, children are forced into a failing school simply because their parents live in a certain district, and that school is the only option.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Live
  • Children
  • School

• The living cell almost always contains, locked in its interior, the visible or invisible products of its physiological activity or its nourishment.

  

  Albrecht Kossel