quotes about Membranes

last updated: November 28, 2023

Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.
-- Frans Lanting

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Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought.
-- Natalie

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Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize how the world comes into someone's head.
-- Leni Zumas

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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Hell was a living place inside every membrane of flesh that temporarily passed itself off as human.
-- Adam Nevill

Source : Adam Nevill (2013). “A Horror Omnibus: Apartment 16, The Ritual, Last Days”, p.149, Pan Macmillan

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“Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.”

Source : Huston Smith (2003). “The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life”, p.196, Univ of California Press
“I used to be a big planner and had to have things figured out ahead of time, but I'm learning to love living in the moment. Last night, I called my friend up randomly and said, 'Where are you? I want to come see you!' It's not a new version of me. I'm just embracing it more.”
“I never really had to deal with a death in the family, let alone my brother.”

Source : "Ravens' Torrey Smith has inspiring game hours after brother's death". news.blogs.cnn.com. September 24, 2012.
“The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.”

Source : "Libraries cater for the middle classes, not the deprived, says John Redwood" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2011.
“I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?”
“A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.”

Source : Charles Rosen (2002). “Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist”, p.236, Simon and Schuster
“It's easy to demonize from a distance.”
“It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.”
“It's all right leaping about the stage when you're 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing”
“First and foremost, Tendulkar is an entertainer and that for me is as important factor as any fact or figure. Too often boring players have been pushed forward as great by figures alone. For sheer entertainment, he will keep cricket alive.”