Analogies Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I remember when "atheist" was a scary word. I remember little suits, on little boys, with no lapels. I remember dining room table leaves.…

— Joe Brainard

What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out…

— Michio Kaku

... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all…

— Henry Walter Bates

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

— Nam June Paik

The vestibule door opens onto a June morning so fine and scrubbed Classira pauses at the threshold as she would at the edge of…

— Michael Cunningham

We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw…

— B. W. Powe

Stories have a tendency to seep across the shining membrane walls separating the universes. They whisper and flutter like the feathers of birds, from…

— Kelly Barnhill

There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we can know…

— China Mieville

She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has…

— Angela Carter

The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution, and placed…

— Karl Ernst von Baer

We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually…

— Steven Pressfield