Quotes About Strand

if you formed all the DNA in your body into a single strand, it would stretch ten billion miles, to beyond Pluto.

Love is, in its essence, a free, formless strand of luminosity.

perfect hereditary molecule. Each DNA strand is normally intertwined with a second

Hazen had already begun to mix her a martini. She watched approvingly. "Martinis make everything worthwhile, don't they?" she said, smiling at Strand.

Religion stands on tiptoe in our land,Ready to pass to the American strand.

As he strode across the strand, a drowned man returning from a call of nature stumbled into him in the darkness. "Damphair," he murmured. Aeron laid a hand upon his head, blessed him, and moved on. The ground rose beneath his feet, gently at first, then more steeply. When he felt scrub grass between his toes, he knew that he had left the strand behind. Slowly he climbed, listening to the waves. The sea is never weary. I must be as tireless.

Plastic carrier bags floated around the traffic lights at the end of the Strand like predatory jellyfish.

Ah, Palinurus, you were too trustful of the calm sky and sea. So you will lie, a shroudless form, on an unknown strand.

I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

The Naxalite revolution - an ultra-left Maoist movement - in Bengal, and elsewhere in India, in the late 1960s provides one strand of 'The Lives of Others.'

Genes don't mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official.

it go at that, I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences. He was really only a sort of detective, a species of sleuth. At Stafford's International Investigation Bureau, in the Strand, where he was employed, they did not require

I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.

Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.

So Turtle had enchanted a strand of purple kelp, wound three times around his upper arm, to make him just a bit faster than some of his brothers.

Those who can't afford a uniform may wear a blue armband / from which the meadow pipit filches a single strand / to bind its nest. The rest of us are bound / by honor alone.

Mostly I was spending time in the Strand, that bastion of titillating erudition. Not so much a bookstore as a collision of 100 different bookstores, with literary wreckage strewn over 18 miles of shelves.

Some bookstores want you to believe they're a community center. Like they need to host a cookie making class class in order to sell you some Proust. But the Strand leaves you completely on your own. Caught between the warring forces of organization and idiosyncrasy, with idiosyncrasy winning every time.

It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.

The head had been impaled on a railing outside the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand in the early hours of a cold November morning. There was a fine dusting of frost on the corpse's hair and eyelids which gave it a festive touch.

arisaid. A night breeze brushed a strand of hair across my face.

I have read that the finest Persian carpets would have one strand deliberately left astray, to avoid the sin of pride that perfection might bring.

several of which are in development as films. His fiction has been nominated for or won an Anthony, Barry, Macavity, Strand Critic's Circle, Readers' Choice, Crimespree, Dilys, Crime Shot, Indie Lit, Romantic Times, and ITW Thriller

Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light.