An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
Can't we sleep ten minutes more? I was having a lovely dream about sneezing without covering my mouth, and giving everybody germs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well. — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
When I think of 'influence', I think of 'influenza', like somebody's picked up a germ. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Kids get sick in preschool. A lot. Make sure that your kids are getting all the immune boosting they can to fight… — Eva Amurri Copy Share Image
He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords… — Anita Baker Copy Share Image
Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs. Giggles can spread from person to person. So can blushing. But… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
I was a closet pacifier advocate. So were most of my friends. Unknown to our mothers, we owned thirty or forty of… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale-as the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There is a Restlessness springing from the consciousness of power not fully utilized, which must be present wherever there is unused power… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
“Also I could hear Amanda’s voice: Why are you being so weak? Love’s never a fair trade. So Jimmy’s tired of you,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If the germ plasm wants to swim in the ocean, it makes itself a fish; if the germ plasm wants to fly… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Maybe one way to think about it would be in the context of the historical development of germ theory. The problem of… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Only here [in the Center] a new union can occur, as the Mysterious Pass is the ideal space and time to experience… — Monica Esposito Copy Share Image
If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
With the Germs, every night's a little mini-riot, bottles flying at my head. — Pat Smear Copy Share Image
For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood. — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
There was always some germ of joy, some little paramecium of happiness wriggling around, waiting for a chance to get out. — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease. — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
What do you get when you kiss a guy? You get enough germs to catch pneumonia. After you do, he'll never phone… — Dionne Warwick Copy Share Image
The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Prayer is the Lord's great sterilizer against the germs of spiritual disease. — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image