Atoms Quote by Penelope Lively Download Open image “Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.” — Penelope Lively ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atoms Language World
Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language. — Jean Berko Gleason Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the way language is used to navigate the world around us. — John Burnside Copy Share Image
Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
“In fact, however, the most useful analogy to keep in mind is that a language is like a lava lamp. The “lava” slowly swirls… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
“I know quite well why I became a historian.... It was because dissension was frowned upon when I was a child: 'Don't argue, Claudia,'… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“The question is, shall it or shall it not be linear history. I've always thought a kaleidoscopic view might be an interesting heresey. Shake… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“He felt marvellously conscious of the moment, of here and now, of this day.” — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“But her thoughts are often of the past. That evanescent, pervasive, slippery internal landscape known to no one else, that vast accretion of data… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“I have a print - you can buy them at the Victoria and Albert Museum - of a photograph of the village street of… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
If the polymer chain assumes a helicoidal conformation in the crystalline state, and if it does not contain asymmetric carbon atoms, it can be… — Giulio Natta Copy Share Image
Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science.… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened. — Lanford Wilson Copy Share Image
“The dogma of the impossibility of determining the atomic constitution of substances, which until recently was advocated with such fervor by the most able… — Wilhelm Korner Copy Share Image
I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“An atom is mostly made up of empty space. If you remove the empty space from every atom, the entire world's human population could… — Weike Wang Copy Share Image
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