If there is a race, it is one to bring the benefits of genomes to human therapeutics. We all want to get there. We all want people to have much more meaningful and productive lives as they age. – Craig Venter
We’re all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It’s dogs barking. It doesn’t mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive. – Ariel Pink
An awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life. – Bernie Siegel
I’m all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and give the book what’s really ‘at stake,’ but ultimately it’s not about them – it’s always a personal story of everyday people thrust into life-threatening situations and having to perform heroic acts. – Andrew Gross
I’ve always wanted something that the message is meaningful to me. I think about all these diversified personalities, people, and countries that I play. I’m simple, and I want to be able to sing my songs to anybody. – Andrae Crouch
I have developed my most meaningful relationships online. None of them live within driving distance. None of them are about my own age. – Aaron Swartz
We teenage girls are faced with a quandary: we know what we want but are forced to wait for our male counterparts to grow up. We are ready for intense and meaningful relationships, but research indicates that males will not reach maturity until their mid-20s. – Alexandra Adornetto
It’s great when you can write a meaningful song that touches people, but sometimes you just wanna have fun and sing a silly song that doesn’t reflect on you as a person. – Carrie Underwood
I’m going to be 50 soon. I’m single, I’m looking for something meaningful. By the time you’ve been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can’t put up with. – Brendan Coyle
I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that. – Adam Rich
My family didn’t film anything. But then you look deeper and realize, maybe there are photographs, there are things. It’s also context: You give something a context, and suddenly it becomes really deep or meaningful footage. – Asif Kapadia
As I’ve written more, and as other Indian American voices have grown around me, I strive harder to find experiences that are unique yet a meaningful and resonant part of the American story. – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I want to keep doing projects that speak for people within the community and tell different types of meaningful stories. – Ashton Sanders
When Pinterest works well, it helps you find things that are meaningful to you. We want to build a system that helps you do that. – Ben Silbermann
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments. – Bryant H. McGill
I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say. – Ashwin Sanghi
It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life. – Bryant H. McGill
We’re living in miraculous times where connections are made at the blink of an eye, the tap of a thumb, and the click of a mouse. We can never replace human interaction, but these simple actions can be powerful and meaningful to those we connect with. – Christy Turlington
I don’t think we yet know – because it’s probably not big enough – what exactly Amazon does to our cities, but whatever it is, I don’t anticipate retail wastelands. If anything, it’s maybe a wake-up call to retailers that they just have to offer something meaningful to customers. – Brad Stone
Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other. – bell hooks
Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015. – Ban Ki-moon
Obama and the Democrats’ preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade. – Bob Beauprez
Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we’re a heavy rock band. We’re definitely not a metal band, but we’re a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody. – Adam Rich
The United States must also continue to push the United Nations Security Council for strong action to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions. In the meantime, it is our job to take meaningful steps to eliminate the threats posed by Iran. – Allyson Schwartz
You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful. – Annie Lennox
