For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The world was full of beauty. She wanted to grab hold of it and take it down into her bones. Yet always… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
Hell was a living place inside every membrane of flesh that temporarily passed itself off as human. — Adam Nevill Copy Share Image
We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution,… — Karl Ernst von Baer Copy Share Image
She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel;… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Stories have a tendency to seep across the shining membrane walls separating the universes. They whisper and flutter like the feathers of… — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
The vestibule door opens onto a June morning so fine and scrubbed Classira pauses at the threshold as she would at the… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence. — Nam June Paik Copy Share Image
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection)… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
I'm floating inside my skin. I could go on floating like this for days. Right now, the real world with its heartbreak… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate. — Frans Lanting Copy Share Image
Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door. Mirroring, softly, barely… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
...the laws of physics, carefully constructed after thousands of years of experimentation, are nothing but the laws of harmony one can write… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image