When you find a germ of truth, beware. Those germs can make you sick. — John R. Erickson 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
I'm kind of a germ freak. When I get on a plane, I spray my seat and everything with Lysol Disinfectant Spray. — Kelly Rowland 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
Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
The paradox is the seed of truth. This germ just needs a fertile ground to flourish and bear fruit. — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a mystery of parenthood that your son can give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a stray, worm-riddled dog, share a piece of re-chewed… — Kathy Lette Copy Share Image
I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Oh my god. I just hung around with an unpretty person. Excuse me while I go home to scrub myself with expensive… — Nicole Richie Copy Share Image
If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
When I'm down on energy, I have these superfoods powders with supergreens, algae, spirulina, and wheat germ extract. Sometimes I have a… — Natalia Vodianova Copy Share Image
To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I lay and cried, and began to feel again, to admit I was human, vulnerable, sensitive. I began to remember how it… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
... in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
It is often said that ‘the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning’. Well, I have no objection. Only,… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
. If you believe that your nation is divinely ordained to rule Europe, and you must struggle to establish its supremacy, is… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“I was afraid of anyone in a costume. A trip to see Santa might as well have been a trip to sit… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
“They sat on fold-up beach chairs and were talking about polio. The older ones, like his grandmother, had lived through the city's… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“I had to stop him from arresting an old lady who let her dog urinate against the fire hydrant that was in… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
Speaking of birthdays, our firstborn [recently turned 2]. As parents sometimes fondly do, we reminisced a bit about his early days on… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
There are people who study germs. I believe they are called Germans — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image