Tissue Quotes

180 quotes by 168 authors

Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity. To… — Erma Bombeck
The nicest Father's Day surprise of all for Dad would be if you handed him a box, and he unwrapped it, and there, inside, sitting… — Dave Barry
Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he… — William James
It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history. — Frederica Mathewes-Green
Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly.… — Walter Benjamin
The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well-intentioned… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the creation of the glycogenic material… — Claude Bernard
The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life. — Isaac Asimov
Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think of… — Tim Birkhead
The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed… — David H. Hubel
It may seem rash indeed to draw conclusions valid for the whole universe from what we can see from the small corner to which we… — Emile Borel
The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of contraction, however measured, is a… — Ernest Starling
And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind. — Dave Barry
An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an animal in appropriate… — Niels Kaj Jerne
What is wrong with looking muscular? Muscles are beautiful. Strength is beautiful. Muscle tissue is beautiful. It is metabolically, medically, and philosophically beautiful. Muscles retreat… — Natalie Angier
I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things. Endure. Bear up.… — Klaus Kinski
Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to… — Henry Rollins
I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with… — Emma Thompson
I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren't sure I'd… — Holly Marie Combs

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