Tissue Quotes
180 quotes by 168 authors
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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
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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
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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
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It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history.
— Frederica Mathewes-Green
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.
— Isaac Asimov
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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