Alembics Quotes

#1. And the continual non-up-turnance of so valuable a commodity as a giant squid - the thought of getting their alembics on which made the city's alchemists whine like dogs - was provoking more and more interest from London's repo-men and -women.

China Mieville

#2. Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration
the secret alembics of vitality.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#3. I tried to make him a young court-wizard in my mind - he almost looked the part in his fine clothes, pursuing some lovely noblewoman - and there my imagination stumbled. He was a thing of books and alembics to me, library and laboratory.

Naomi Novik

#4. Bury me and I'll thrive as countless insects.
I bend neither to your weapon nor will.
Even as you trample upon my bones I cower not under your soulless tread, or fear your shadow casting upon my grave.

Vaddey Ratner

#5. Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.

Ronald A. Heifetz

#6. For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure.

Mariella Frostrup

#7. Never let them see you sweat. Never take a "no" from someone who isn't qualified to tell you "yes." Never let the nay-sayers get you down.

Mary Kennedy

#8. Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.

Gary Shteyngart

#9. Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#10. If you build a great product or service, people will talk about it. But it starts with having something that's worth talking about.

Jeff Bezos

#11. For modern science, at least from a philosophical point of view, the critical divide seems to be between inanimate matter and the origin of living organisms, while for Buddhism the critical divide is between non-sentient matter and the emergence of sentient beings.

Dalai Lama XIV

#12. In illness, the world went wonderfully warped, high temperatures turning your pillow to a dune of snow and bringing the night sky, with its daisy-sized stars, so close to your bed you could touch it, and taste the moon.

Lauren Slater