Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Cage

It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room to hear two sounds: one high, my nervous system in operation, one low, my blood in circulation. The reason I did not expect to hear those two sounds was that they were set into vibration without any intention on my part. That experience gave my life direction, the exploration of nonintention. No one else was doing that. I would do it for us. I did not know immediately what I was doing, nor, after all these years, have I found out much. I compose music.

The liver signifieth the element of water, and it is also the water; for from the liver cometh the blood in the whole body into all the members. The liver is the mother of the blood.

The jewels are the vaccines business and blood testing. There's nothing about Chiron that makes you say 'wow, we need to buy this for the pipeline.' The portfolio is rather lackluster compared to other biotechnology companies.

Mahatma Gandhi

If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.

Mahatma Gandhi

If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.

James Patterson

Then I found it: the source of the blood, the place where he'd been shot. 'Total?' I said, and I got a slight whimper. 'You have a boo-boo on your tail.

James Patterson

In a manner of speaking. As we intend for you to found a dynasty. And that dynasty will rule society until it has progressed enough to-" "Overthrow the dynasty in a revolutionary, blood filled coup!" Iggy said eagerly. We all looked at him. "Just saying." He sheepishly took a bite of cookie.

Mark Twain

A most moving and pulse-stirring honor - the heartfelt grope of the hand, and the welcome that does not descend from the pale, gray matter of the brain but rushes up with the red blood of the heart

All that water drives down the sodium in your blood and could cause seizures,

And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.

Lewis B. Smedes

The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness.

Hermann Hesse

I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

Hermann Hesse

In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other.

Henri Matisse

A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.

Henry Williamson

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.

Henry Ward Beecher

Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

Henry Ward Beecher

A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience; pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith; and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness.

Henry Ward Beecher

Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.

Helen Dunmore

For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Blood is a juice of rarest quality. [Ger., Blut ist ein ganz beondrer Saft.]

Haruki Murakami

The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.

Hanan Ashrawi

We need to stop Sharon. His lethal policies are drawing blood on both sides. That's why we need a serious intervention -- international troops. And we need to end the occupation if there is to be security for both people.

Gustave Flaubert

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

Greg Bear

Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten.It was in the blood, the flesh,And now it is forever.

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

John Lancaster Spalding

Agitators and declaimers may heat the blood, but they do not illumine the mind.

Joanna Baillie

He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for other's good, is a poor, frozen churl.

A snack now prevents your blood sugar dropping.

Douglas MacArthur

a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past.

The more times a person pushes on the chest, the better off the patient is, because there is more blood flow to the brain and other vital organs.

Judith Jamison

Alvin knew what I would do with it because we worked together for such a long time. It's part of my blood and part of who I am as a human being. Alvin's presence is felt by us all, even the new dancers who never worked with him. And if we do our jobs well, that continues the vision.

A lot of people think they can't donate blood because they are on a particular medicine. That may not be true.

Theodore Roosevelt

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.