Famous quotes containing the words dna, strand and/or mechanism:
“Here [in London, history] ... seemed the very fabric of things, as if the city were a single growth of stone and brick, uncounted strata of message and meaning, age upon age, generated over the centuries to the dictates of some now all-but-unreadable DNA of commerce and empire.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“You went on with your dying.
Nothing could stop you. Not your son. Not your daughter
Who fed you and made you into a child again.”
—Mark Strand (b. 1934)
“Ive never known a Philadelphian who wasnt a downright character; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.”
—Anita Loos (18881981)
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