Amniotic Quotes

#1. The vast Pacific ocean would always remain the islanders' great solace, escape and nourishment, the amniotic fluid that would keep them hedonistic and aloof, guarded, gentle and mysterious.

Francine Du Plessix Gray

#2. Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul.

Marianne Williamson

#3. It's so much baby and so much amniotic fluid, it's crazy. If we have a 10 pounder, pray for me!

Jessica Simpson

#4. We're afloat in amniotic fluid.' 'How's that?' 'Salt water. It's chemically almost identical with the fluid surrounding an unborn baby.

Frank Herbert

#5. Breast milk and amniotic fluid carry the flavors of the mother's foods, and studies consistently show that babies grow up to be more accepting of flavors they've sampled while in the womb and while breastfeeding.

Mary Roach

#6. Human experience comes suspended in the sickly-sweet amniotic fluid of commercial photography. And a world normally animated by abrasive differences is blithely reduced to a single, homogeneous National Geographic way of seeing.

Geoffrey Batchen

#7. Never forget the gender of mother earth. This planet is a body through which arterial tides pulse and surge, and within this fluid murk stir serpents, inchoate monstrosities of the amniotic id.

Robert Dunbar

#8. I wish you'd fall in love with me," she said.
"Why?"
"Because you're really someone worth falling in love with. And if we were in love, I wouldn't be drifting. I wouldn't be nobody. At least not while I was with you.

Anne Rampling

#9. For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

Sylvia Plath

#10. Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb.

Annie Dillard

#11. Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.

Ayn Rand

#12. Directing the mind to stay in the present can be a formidable task.

Allan Lokos

#13. Sorrow, the heart must bear,
Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there.
Many a circumstance, at least,
Touches the very breast.
For those
Whom any sent away,
he knows:
And in the live man's stead,
Armor and ashes reach
The house of each.

Robert Browning

#14. A rule against paid fast lanes would encourage additional capacity; a rule permitting paid fast lanes would simply encourage cable companies to create congested slow lanes on the Internet so they could make money by selling fast lanes to big companies.

Marvin Ammori

#15. If a guy drew a charge on me, I tried to kick him in the balls.

Charles Barkley

#16. people have managed to marry without arithmetic

Geoffrey Chaucer

#17. If earthly mortals were being contacted by souls in heaven, Tess, a Catholic, had been the first.

Mitch Albom

#18. Film is cool because it's an hour and a half to two hours. It's a great ride. It's typically three acts - beginning, middle and end. It's going on an adventure and by the end it's all cleaned up.

Chris Pratt

#19. I think fondly of the rabbit holes I disappeared down when I researched papers for history and English because I couldn't find quite what I was looking for, or because I had to go through so much material to find examples for my thesis.

Christina Baker Kline

#20. How do I look?" Gary asked, posing obscenely.

T.J. Klune

#21. The reflex of fear was soon replaced with another, more useful emotion.
Rage.

Tara Moss

#22. We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.

Mark Millar