Insert Quotes

• I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.

  

  Will Self
  • Phones
  • Synonym
  • Fiddle

• One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Time
  • Change
  • Wedges

• Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Order
  • Essentials
  • Oratory

• After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Fall
  • Blow
  • Cursing

• Parasites are not only incredibly diverse; they are also incredibly successful. There are parasitic stretches of DNA in your own genes, some of which are called retrotransposons. Many of the parasitic stretches were originally viruses that entered our DNA. Most of them don't do us any harm. They just copy and insert themselves in other parts of our DNA, basically replicating themselves. Sometimes they hop into other species and replicate themselves in a new host. According to one estimate, roughly one-third to one-half of all human DNA is basically parasitic.

  

  Carl Zimmer
  • Sometimes
  • Successful
  • Diverse

• Borna virus is not a retrovirus. It doesn't actually insert its own genes into our cells. What it does is just hangs out near our DNA and uses some of the molecular machinery to copy itself.

  

  Carl Zimmer
  • Cells
  • Copies
  • Insert