quotes about Plankton

last updated: November 28, 2023

Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton.
-- Geoffrey Miller

Source : Geoffrey Miller (2009). “Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior”, p.8, Penguin

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“Yesterday the twig was brown and bare; To-day the glint of green is there; Tomorrow will be leaflets spare; I know no thing so wondrous fair, No miracle so strangely rare. I wonder what will next be there!”
“In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her.”
“A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.”
“Animal crackers in my soup Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop Gosh oh gee but I have fun Swallowing animals one by one In every bowl of soup I see Lions and Tigers watching me I make 'em jump right through a hoop Those animal crackers in my soup When I get hold of the big bad wolf I just push him under to drown Then I bite him in a million bits And I gobble him right down When their inside me where it's dark I walk around like Noah's ark I stuff my tummy like a goop With animal crackers in my soup.”
“Harry and Draco have a very weird love/hate relationship.”
“We have Borna virus genes. We're part Borna virus, which is weird, but apparently our cells and our genomes in a weird way might actually be grabbing these viruses, grabbing genetic material from the viruses that are infecting it and pulling them into their own genome.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.”

Source : Carl Van Vechten (1922). “Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works”
“The Christos-image is most difficult to disentangle from its art-craft junk-shop paint-and-plaster medieval jumble of pain-worship and death-symbol.”
“If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.”
“The world loves to be deceived.”