Words matter. These are the best Strand Quotes from famous people such as Chief Seattle, Craig Venter, Noah Feldman, Katie Lee, Sam Abell, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
You’d need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA.
Like many great world faiths, Mormonism has an important strand of sacred mystery. Mormon temples have traditionally been closed to outsiders and designed with opaque windows.
For me, the thought of spaghetti and meatballs conjures up the image of that scene where ‘Lady and the Tramp’ gaze into each other’s eyes as they slurp a strand of pasta into a fateful kiss.
Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest – a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
I do have strong feelings about the aristocracy: they serve a purpose, but it’s a sort of insular strand of society.
Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.
My interest was always to do interdisciplinary work with space. I thought of architecture as one strand in a multimedia practice.
I love my job. But I like to have fun at work. So I don’t get finicky if one strand of hair is standing out in a shot. I don’t get finicky about broken nails. I don’t let small things affect me. I’m not perfect. Nobody is. There’s no fun in being perfect. I enjoy my work; there’s no pressure on me.
Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand.
The druidical claims for Stonehenge seem to belong to that bonkers-but-persistent strand of Englishness that believes there is something particularly mystical about the English themselves, who were clearly a chosen people.
The kids growing up is a separate strand to your life. However bad a day you’ve had, that’s the most important thing, and you have to remember that.
Genes don’t mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official.
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.’
Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, isolationism was an important, even dominant strand in U.S. politics. After the Second World War, this strand disappeared, smothered by the widespread and bipartisan conviction that the United States needed to stay engaged with the world to prevent future crises.
What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don’t really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don’t you?
I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.
I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I’m doing so that if the improvisational strand doesn’t work I can go back to what I know’s already there.
They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge – and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand – they returned again.
By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.
God is God, but he has various names in different languages, and each strand of monotheistic religion has multiple ways of describing the godhead.
From United’s point of view, it is always difficult to tell just when a young footballer is going to mature into a first-class professional ready to play at the highest level, but the story of how Pogba slipped away from United has more than one strand to it.
I write as if I’m someone reading the book – often people ask if I write one strand first and then go back and seed in the other, but I don’t think I could keep track of who knows what, and the tension would come out wrong, so the answer is no – I write it more or less in the order you read it.
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women’s empowerment – these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together.
