Tissues Quotes
191 quotes by 181 authors
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I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I…
— Jane Campion
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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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Persons drinking coffee, as a general rule, eat less, though coffee, and also tea, have little direct food value; but they retard the waste of…
— Maria Parloa
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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 tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the…
— John Burroughs
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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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The elementary parts of all tissues are formed of cells in an analogous, though very diversified manner, so that it may be asserted, that there…
— Theodor Schwann
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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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As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are at once forced…
— John Jacob Abel
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However, on many occasions, I examined normal blood and normal tissues and there was no possibility of overlooking bacteria or confusing them with granular masses…
— Robert Koch
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As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter, and, from a…
— Frederick Gowland Hopkins
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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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