Leonard Hayflick Quotes

It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this planet, with a life expectancy of only eighteen years. ~ Leonard Hayflick

They also knew that there was a string of DNA at the end of each chromosome called a telomere, which shortened a tiny bit each time a cell divided, like time ticking off a clock. As normal cells go through life, their telomeres shorten with each division until they're almost gone. Then they stop dividing and begin to die. This process correlates with the age of a person: the older we are, the shorter our telomeres, and the fewer times our cells have left to divide before they die. By the early nineties, a scientist at Yale had used HeLa to discover that human cancer cells contain an enzyme called telomerase that rebuilds their telomeres. The presence of telomerase meant cells could keep regenerating their telomeres indefinitely. This explained the mechanics of HeLa's immortality: telomerase constantly rewound the ticking clock at the end of Henrietta's chromosomes so they never grew old and never died. ~ Rebecca Skloot

A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days,
a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30,
a man at 100, and some species of
tortoises not until 150 years. ~ Leonard Hayflick

I think people respect my work, but I was never in one of those movies that made me a star. ~ Robert Sean Leonard

It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds, and thus to have established analysis as an independent science, which from his time on has maintained an unchallenged leadership in the field of mathematics. ~ Thomas Reid

He walked back into the living room, looking again at the illuminated photo of the man with the brown beard and long hair.
"Who's that, a friend of yours?"
Mr. Sweety glanced over. He said, "This picture here?" and sounded surprised. "It's Jesus. Who you think it was?"
"It's a photograph," Raymond said.
Mr. Sweety said, "Yeah, it's a good likeness, ain't it? ~ Elmore Leonard

I showed my heart to the doctor/
He said I just had to quit ~ Leonard Cohen

A fighter never knows when it's the last bell. He doesn't want to face that. ~ Sugar Ray Leonard

If memories were indeed like what a camera records, they could be forgotten, or they could fade so that they are no longer clear and vivid. But it would be difficult to explain how people could have memories that are both clear and vivid while also being wrong. Yet that happens, and it is not infrequent. ~ Leonard Mlodinow

When you're born in fire, smoke will never do. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society. ~ Sugar Ray Leonard

I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I'd love to do something with Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets. If I got a call from Juliette Lewis or PJ Harvey, or Chrissie Hynde, that'd be a thrill. ~ Imelda May

Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal ~ Leonard Ravenhill

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. ~ Leonard Peikoff

It was awful, but it's over. And now I feel like I'm finally coming up for air."
"Yes, well, it's been a very stressful time for both of us," said Leonard.
"How has it been stressful for you? said Holly.
"I had that move."
Holly just looked at him.
"What," said Leonard.
"You moved apartments" said Holly. ~ Sarah Dunn

It don't matter none where you start in life. What matters is where you finish. ~ Leonard Pitts Jr.

HOME WITH BRITNEY SPEARS By ELIZABETH LEONARD | 1193 words WITH 2 RAMBUNCTIOUS BOYS, A NEW BOYFRIEND ~ Anonymous

As the world's sole remaining super power and economic powerhouses, our nation's ability to be at the forefront of innovation and production has enabled unparalleled economic success of our nation's workforce. ~ Leonard Boswell

The subtle performances of the leads, the remarkable Irrfan Khan and the engaging Nimrat Kaur, make 'The Lunchbox' a pleasure to watch. ~ Leonard Maltin

Love is blind. Marriage is an eye-opener. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

Leonard Aster thanked Fighting Prawn and the Mollusk tribe for their hospitality.
"You mean," said Fighting Prawn, "for not killing you?"
"Yes," said Leonard. "It was very gracious of you."
"Do you," said Leonard, "I mean, does you tribe, shake hands?"
"No," said Fighting Prawn. "We kiss on the lips."
"Oh," said Leonard, looking very alarmed. ~ Dave Barry

Running, close companion to death, summons us to the most vivid acts of life. Our ancestors (we have forgotten) ran for food and for love, love and lust. For us, a prime symbol of sexuality is the automobile. For the ancients it was the chase, the foot race. Satyr and nymph, maiden and god, hot pursuit. The mythic hunters, Diana and Atalanta, available only to the males, men or gods, who could outrun them; death to all others. ~ George Leonard

You know, I think some people fear that if they like the wrong kind of book, it will reflect poorly on them. It can go with genre, too. Somebody will say, "I won't read science fiction, or I won't read young adult novels" - all of those genres can become prisons. I always find it funny when the serious literary world will make a little crack in its wall and allow in one pet genre writer and crown them and say, "Well Elmore Leonard is actually a real writer." Or "Stephen King is actually a really good writer." Generally speaking, you know you're being patronized when somebody uses the word "actually ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

The sweetest little song:
You go your way
I'll go your way too! ~ Leonard Cohen

I was endorsed by many corporations to work with their people. Since I had several hundred successful case histories, I realized that it was really valuable and everybody should have access to the information, so I started teaching seminars to groups of people. ~ Leonard Orr

I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write. ~ Elmore Leonard

I remember what Ben Jonson said: 'I've studied all the philosophies and all the theologies but cheerfulness keeps breaking through. ~ Leonard Cohen

Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years. ~ Leonard Cohen

Men's desire - it stopped for nothing. Even then,even when I was stained the lurid color of waste -- even then someone wanted me. ~ Louise Wareham Leonard

Mystification is the psychiatrist's defense against the danger of being found out. ~ Leonard Roy Frank

You know, we live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. ~ Vivienne Westwood

Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up. ~ Sugar Ray Leonard

DEAR DI­ARY
You are greater than the Bible
And the Con­fer­ence of the Birds
And the Up­an­ishads
All put to­geth­er
You are more se­vere
Than the Scrip­tures
And Ham­mura­bi's Code
More dan­ger­ous than Luther's pa­per
Nailed to the Cathe­dral door
You are sweet­er
Than the Song of Songs
Might­ier by far
Than the Epic of Gil­gamesh
And braver
Than the Sagas of Ice­land
I bow my head in grat­itude
To the ones who give their lives
To keep the se­cret
The dai­ly se­cret
Un­der lock and key
Dear Di­ary
I mean no dis­re­spect
But you are more sub­lime
Than any Sa­cred Text
Some­times just a list
Of my events
Is holi­er than the Bill of Rights
And more in­tense ~ Leonard Cohen

One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood - and one thing that affects your mood is the weather. ~ Leonard Mlodinow

I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours. ~ Leonard Nimoy

If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not! ~ Leonard Ravenhill

The Bloomsbury Group has been characterised as a liberal, pacifist, and at times libertine, intellectual enclave of Cambridge-based privilege. The Cambridge men of the group (Bell, Forster, Fry, Keynes, Strachey, Sydney-Turner) were members of the elite and secret society of Cambridge Apostles. Woolf's aesthetic understanding, and broader philosophy, were in part shaped by, and at first primarily interpreted in terms of, (male) Bloomsbury's dominant aesthetic and philosophical preoccupations, rooted in the work of G. E. Moore (a central influence on the Apostles), and culminating in Fry's and Clive Bell's differing brands of pioneering aesthetic formalism. 'The main things which Moore instilled deep into our minds and characters,' Leonard Woolf recalls, 'were his peculiar passion for truth, for clarity and common sense, and a passionate belief in certain values.'
Increasing awareness of Woolf's feminism, however, and of the influence on her work of other women artists, writers and thinkers has meant that these Moorean and male points of reference, though of importance, are no longer considered adequate in approaching Woolf's work, and her intellectual development under the tutelage of women, together with her involvement with feminist thinkers and activists, is also now acknowledged. ~ Jane Goldman

If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil's most wanted list. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

We have here another interesting proof of a connection between XIIth Dynasty Egypt and early Minoan Crete. ~ Leonard W. King

Nothing matters, and everything matters. ~ Leonard Woolf

The strength of the church is not the strength of its institutions but the authenticity of its witness. ~ Leonard Sweet

The modern concept of the unconscious, based on such studies and measurements, is often called the "new unconscious," to distinguish it from the idea of the unconscious that was popularized by a neurologist-turned-clinician named Sigmund Freud. ~ Leonard Mlodinow

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time. ~ PJ Harvey

To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both. ~ Leonard Bernstein

(F)or it was the belief of the duchy that no nation can be governed well unless there is a majority which can impose its will upon a minority. A complete balance of pros and antis could produce nothing but deadlock. ~ Leonard Wibberley

By his own assessment, he was no genius. He had "no great quickness of apprehension or wit" or "power to follow a long and purely abstract train of thought." On the many occasions when I share those feelings, I find it encouraging to review those words because that Englishman did okay for himself - his name was Charles Darwin. ~ Leonard Mlodinow

When you spend your days doing what fulfills you, you are attractive. ~ Thomas Leonard