He said it was artificial respiration but now I find I'm…

“As a tactic for planting misinformation in the enemy’s reticules, you mean,” Osa said. “This I know about. You are referring to the Artificial…

— Neal Stephenson

“Don't get any funny ideas -- When all is said and done, you're still artificial (a thing)... Not human. Don't make the mistake of…

— Shungiku Nakamura

People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It…

— Michael Crichton

Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is…

— Norman Cousins

All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Wherever moral ambition exists, there right exists. And moral ambition itself must be presumed present in subconsciousness, even when the conscious self seems to…

— William Ernest Hocking

Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

“Energy and life go hand in hand. If you stop breathing, you will not be able to generate the energy you need for staying…

— Nick Lane

I’m telling you, you’d like him. He goes to a public school and just started at Spencer’s. The other day, he was going off…

— Richelle Mead

Like any good drug, anger can mask all reality. But anger is not an easy emotion to call up on demand, which is why…

— Brad Alan Lewis

Since it is the very substance of the animal, it is the blood which transports the fuel.If the animal did not habitually replace, through…

— Antoine Lavoisier

And we'd sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of…

— William Faulkner

“The sense of respiration is an example of our natural sense relationship with the atmospheric matrix. Remember, respiration means to re-spire, to re-spirit ourselves…

— Michael J. Cohen

Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell…

— Herbert M. Shelton