Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Barry

DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.

Bryan Sykes

DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.

Charles C. Mann

Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this has not yet been translated into treatments that can help cure patients. These treatments will come - tomorrow, or the day after.

Bill McCartney

When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.

Bill Viola

The electronic image is not fixed to any material base and, like our DNA, it has become a code that can circulate to any container that will hold it, defying death as it travels at the speed of light.

Arianna Huffington

More young people are volunteering than ever before. More people are including service to others on their busy lives' to do list. The promise of America is embedded deep in our DNA, calling us to a much less shallow search for happiness and meaning.

We're just sitting back, waiting for the DNA of this child.

What we didn't have was a DNA that we really thought would be the future of Ford.

Brian Dennehy

I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.

Billy Collins

The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.

Brendan Gleeson

You work for it. You don't have to massage it, so that it fits into the way it has to be. He's just too vigorous a writer and the dialogue is too sparking to do anything other than inhabit it and give it as much truth as you can. You just try to make it part of your DNA. That's what the challenge is, really.

When we had highly sensitive information, the DNA on the dress, that was held within our office and the FBI. There was no dissemination of that information.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.

Arthur Caplan

A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants someone snooping into his DNA.

Craig Venter

There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives.

Dave Pelzer

My fans are buying the DNA of Dave.

Tracy Morgan

If you're the kind of person who likes numbers and statistics, I'm the long shot - the Lotto Powerball winner. I'm the mutation in the DNA that makes evolution a reality. I am the new black.

Annalee Newitz

One reason that we're so adaptable is that humans are excellent tool users and homebuilders. When our environment doesn't provide us with something that we need, we try to make it ourselves out of whatever is available, whether that's rock or wood or ore or DNA.

Andrea Dworkin

Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it.

Chuck Smith

We're down to those we have no idea on. The ones that only DNA will get.

Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.

A. J. Jacobs

I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud to share the same DNA structure with the rest of humanity. I know you'd better focus on the good stuff or you're screwed.

Scott Evans

Right away, we realized this could be a great DNA case.

Morano has told me, 'It's the status quo,' and it's still an ongoing investigation, ... He hasn't told us about the outcome of Roger Bates' DNA test and said when there is something new to report he would let me know.

Cesar Millan

Wolves are disciplined not only when they hunt but also when they travel, when they play, and when they eat. Nature doesn't view discipline as a negative thing. Discipline is DNA. Discipline is survival.

Carl Zimmer

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.

Brian Acton

Going public is 18-month process, while an acquisition is a 6-month process. Going public means going under so much scrutiny, regulatory approval, auditing, magnified 10 times. Having the stomach to do that isn't necessarily in my DNA. My DNA is building a product and a service.

Douglas Adams

I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA!

Creed Bratton

I had always planned to be an actor, and the music was just in my DNA, it's always been.

David Wilcock

Antigravity, teleportation, time travel, energetic DNA evolution and consciousness transformation could create a world few of us ever even dreamed of.

Craig Venter

Knowing what your parents have gives you hints of things, but your genome is a totally unique combination of and interchange of DNA from your parents. There is no one else like you genetically.

Taylor Hawkins

'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.

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