Gene Quotes
237 Gene quotes by 205 unique authors
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I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
— T. Boone Pickens
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Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.
— Steven Pinker
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Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation.
— John C. Reilly
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My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family. I guess I…
— John C. Reilly
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You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.
— Jeremy Rifkin
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I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene.
— Dan Savage
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I would urge all bands that say they only care about credibility and don't care about money to send Gene Simmons every dollar that they…
— Gene Simmons
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I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM…
— Zadie Smith
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Gene sometimes... well, he has his dream list.
— Paul Stanley
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Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry…
— Ringo Starr
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I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you grow up.
— Marlo Thomas
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I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.
— John Travolta
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Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will want…
— Robert Winston
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While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious…
— Robert Winston
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I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants,…
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
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I am a goofy person, really. That's where my energy goes, that's how I live my life. The goof gene is very strong inside me,…
— Devon Bostick
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I think there's no question that Michael Jackson was the foremost entertainer of his generation; perhaps of all time, arguably, taking the skills of a…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.
— Chris Hardwick
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I do not have a bride gene. I haven't been planning a wedding since I was 3. I never put a sheet on my head…
— Niecy Nash
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i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow members of the…
— Craig Clevenger
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On any given day, something claims our attention. Anything at all, inconsequential things. A rosebud, a misplaced hat, that sweater we liked as a child,…
— Haruki Murakami
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Gene, on the desire to be Finny: "I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must…
— John Knowles
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Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!
— Charles Stross
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Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a…
— Steven Pinker
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and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the…
— Jodi Picoult
Who Wrote These Gene Quotes
205 authors contributed a total of 237 Gene Quotes, led by these top contributors: