Fruit Flies Quotes

• El tiempo vuela como una flecha; la fruta vuela como un plátano

  Groucho Marx

  Divertido, Cumpleaños, Tiempo

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• Siempre que me deprimo porque la vida pasa demasiado deprisa, lo que me ayuda es un pequeño mantra que me repito: al menos no soy una mosca de la fruta.

  Ray Romano

  Littles, Helping, Help Me

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”, Bantam

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• Fuera de un perro, un libro es el mejor amigo de un hombre. Dentro de un perro está demasiado oscuro para leer.

  Groucho Marx

  Divertido, Amistad, Educación

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.

  Robert Mankoff

  Short Life, Cartoon, Use

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• When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.

  Marca Blanshard

  Men, Silence, Sitting

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• The three of us have worked on the development of the small and totally harmless fruit fly, Drosophila. This animal has been extremely cooperative in our hands - and has revealed to us some of its innermost secrets and tricks for developing from a single celled egg to a complex living being of great beauty and harmony. ... None of us expected that our work would be so successful or that our findings would ever have relevance to medicine.

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

  Successful, Animal, Hands

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• Se puede coger toda la sinceridad de Hollywood, meterla en el ombligo de una mosca de la fruta y aún tener espacio suficiente para tres semillas de alcaravea y el corazón de un productor.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Movie, Heart

  Quoted in J. R. Colombo, Wit and Wisdom of the Moviemakers (1979)

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• Drosophila,” I said, remembering the word. “What?” Lily asked. “Why do girls always fall for guys with the at ention span of drosophila?” “What?” “Fruit flies. Guys with the attention span of fruit flies.” “Because they’re hot?” “This,” I told her, “is not the time for being truthful.

  Rachel Cohn

  Girl, Fall, Guy

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• The latest report says the results of an investigation will be released in three or four weeks. That's a long time for fruit flies and the press.

  Denis Boyles

  America, Long, Three

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• Richard wrote a mental diary in his head. Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiance, a home, and a life that made sense. (Well, as much as an life makes sense). Then I found an injured girl bleeding on the pavement and I tried to be Good Samaritan. Now I've got no fiance, no home, no job, and I'm walking around a couple of hundred feet under the streets of London with the projected life expectancy of a suicidal fruit fly.

  Neil Gaiman

  Girl, Friday, Jobs

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• Tengo un lagarto de mascota llamado Puff, cinco peces de colores -llamados Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl y Sandy-, un pez óscar llamado Chef, dos pacus, una rana africana albina llamada Whitey, un árbol bonsái, cuatro Venus atrapamoscas, un criadero de moscas de la fruta y monos marinos.

  Chris Pratt

  Mar, Dos, Árbol

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria could out-compete real bacteria: They could spread like blowing pollen, replicate swiftly, and reduce the biosphere to dust in a matter of days. Dangerous replicators could easily be too tough, small, and rapidly spreading to stop - at least if we make no preparation. We have trouble enough controlling viruses and fruit flies.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Real, Cells, Dust

  K. Eric Drexler (1986). “Engines of creation”, Anchor Books

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• After observing mutations in fruit flies for many years, Professes Goldschmidt fell into despair. The changes, he lamented, were so hopelessly micro [insignificant] that if a thousand mutations were combined in one specimen, there would still be no new species.

  Norman Macbeth

  Years, Despair, Mutation

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• Me lo pasé muy bien investigando los pigmentos de distintas moscas de la fruta mutantes siguiendo protocolos experimentales publicados en Scientific American, y también recuerdo haber hecho mi propia colección de escarabajos cuando aún era aceptable hacer este tipo de colecciones.

  Paul Nurse

  Mutants, Different, Remember

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• El dinero de los contribuyentes se destina a proyectos que poco o nada tienen que ver con el bien público, como la investigación de la mosca de la fruta en París (Francia). No bromeo.

  Sarah Palin

  Kids, Paris, Dollars

  Biografía/Citas personales, www.imdb.com.

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• Con los chicos siempre sabes a qué atenerte. Justo en el camino de un huracán. Todo está ahí. Las moscas de la fruta revoloteando sobre su cubo de basura, el hámster tratando de escapar a un aire más limpio, los dormitorios decorados en el baño de la estación de autobuses.

  Erma Bombeck

  Boys, Air, Trying

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.196, Open Road Media

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