Chemically Quotes

#1. I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#2. At the dawn of the twentieth century, it was already clear that, chemically speaking, you and I are not much different from cans of soup. And yet we can do many complex and even fun things we do not usually see cans of soup doing.

Philip Nelson

#3. I've always believed that a dance evening energizes an audience, that an audience goes out feeling chemically stronger and more optimistic. This is what I understand about dance. And this is an important thing. We need this. Our culture needs it.

Twyla Tharp

#4. All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience.

Dennis McKenna

#5. In a world of chemically induced sanity, a little lunacy confers immense advantages.

Iain Pears

#6. Diclofenac, cow aspirin, given to cattle as a muscle relaxant, to ease pain and increase the production of milk, works - worked - like nerve gas on white-backed vultures. Each chemically relaxed, milk-producing cow or buffalo that died became poisoned vulture bait.

Arundhati Roy

#7. A matter of pragmatism; chemically knocking someone senseless is usually quieter, less messy and less risky to the assailant than killing them.

Greg Egan

#8. When I see an actress or actor drag deeply in a movie, I imagine the pyrenes and phenols ravaging the tender epithelial cells and hardworking cilia of their bronchi, the monoxide and cyanide binding to their hemoglobin, the heaving and straining of their chemically panicked hearts.

Jonathan Franzen

#9. The worst part is when cells feel so threatened by their chemically marinated surroundings, that they decide to mutate as a defensive mechanism, and start to reproduce without taking their immediate surroundings into account. This mutation is called cancer.

Gudjon Bergmann

#10. 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

#11. Within the chemically rich liquid oceans, by a mechanism yet to be discovered, organic molecules transitioned to self-replicating life.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#12. Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food.

Michael Levine

#13. Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.

William S. Burroughs

#14. I go to the healthier foods that are less chemically treated. I am drinking lots of water to get rid of the toxins in my body. It's a natural flushing. Water flushes your system and is also very good for your skin.

Aretha Franklin

#15. Fear and excitement are chemically the same. Sadness is a hair away from melancholy. Melancholy is almost pleasure, brushing against happiness. It's all the fucking same.

Catherine Hanrahan

#16. We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#17. Are you a little tipsy, Vivian? It doesn't look like you're walking too straight." "No, I'm just artificially confident and chemically relaxed.

Jewel E. Ann

#18. You would not have known,' Baynes said, 'because I do not in any physical way appear Jewish; I have had my nose altered, my large greasy pores made smaller, my skin chemically lightened, the shape of my skull changed. In short, physically I cannot be detected. ...

Philip K. Dick

#19. Over the years, Leila had come to believe that politicians were literally made of special stuff, chemically different stuff. The senator was flabby and bad-haired and acne-scarred and yet completely magnetic.

Jonathan Franzen

#20. Chemical cheating will be decisively routed when fans become properly repelled by it. They will recoil in disgust when they understand that athletes who are chemically propelled to victory do not merely overvalue winning, they misunderstand why winning is properly valued.

George F. Will

#21. DNA is, as it were, especially unalive. It is among the most nonreactive, chemically inert molecules in the living world,

Bill Bryson

#22. I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.

Shirley Manson

#23. Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can they trust any of their memories?

Dan Simmons

#24. Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.

Yoko Ono

#25. I'm a recovered alcoholic. I don't do anything anymore, but those things, those things take away ... You're a different personality completely when you take those. For those who are really chemically dependent on anything, it's not you.

Stan Getz

#26. There is a lot of interesting product coming to market already. Bags and bottles and cups and such made of potato starch and other fully biodegradable materials. In some sense, plastic is more chemically complex. We ought to be able to simplify.

Edward Norton

#27. Carbon has this genius of making a chemically stable, two-dimensional, one-atom-thick membrane in a three-dimensional world. And that, I believe, is going to be very important in the future of chemistry and technology in general.

Richard Smalley

#28. I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off.

Joel Salatin

#29. In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed.

Edward Bernays

#30. Second, the only proven technique for treatment for chemically dependent people involves use of a spiritual program of self-change.

Virgil Miller Newton

#31. Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.

Michael Franti

#32. ...seven core emotions show up chemically in the body: Love, Joy, Hope, Sadness, Envy, Anger, Fear

Shawn Kent Hayashi

#33. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood.

Michael Franti

#34. She was handed more personality than other mortals, and chemically fertilized in a glasshouse - now her bionic strength allows her to teleport platters of watercress sandwiches from the kitchen to the library, where she's beating her friends at backgammon.

Jardine Libaire

#35. Anything that can be accomplished chemically can be accomplished in other ways.

William S. Burroughs

#36. Give any chemically rich system enough time, with enough free energy, and something unusual, but ultimately predictable, will eventually occur.

John Zande

#37. Gooseberries should be mainstream berries! Why are chemically fattened strawberries a thing? Why not the delicious gooseberry?

Andrew Dost

#38. Risk heightens focus and flow follows focus. This means that the fight-or-flight response primes the body - chemically and psychologically - for the flow state. Athletes report moving through one to get to the other.

Steven Kotler

#39. But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal.

Asa Gray

#40. Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.

Terence McKenna

#41. Chemically, I'm as off as I can be. But you fix me.

Crystal Woods

#42. We have become an army of multiply chemically sensitive, high-maintenance princesses trying to make our way through a world full of irksome peas.

David Rakoff

#43. The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in order to produce the product.

Ada Yonath

#44. The ideal protective layer for a lithium metal anode needs to be chemically stable to protect against the chemical reactions with the electrolyte and mechanically strong to withstand the expansion of the lithium during charge,

Steven Chu

#45. The four most common chemically active elements in the universe - hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen - are the four most common elements of life on Earth. We are not simply in the universe. The universe is in us.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#46. Lea was on the floor of a stall hugging a toilet. When she heard the door close, she lifted her head and gave me a half smile of embarrassment.
'Gracie, I've been chemically inconvenienced and I don't think I can ever leave this toilet. Take a picture of this so I'll never do it again.

Christine Zoldenz

#47. Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.

Arthur Koestler

#48. Serge nodded. 'And I respect your opinion because you smoke marijuana. You're chemically biased against violence and job applications.

Tim Dorsey

#49. In the future, we will play games while floating naked in a tank of warm, sensory-depriving gelatin. Games will be distributed chemically, into the gelatin, and absorbed into the player's skin. The gelatin will be Lingonberry-flavored, and the games will encourage good citizenship.

Tim Schafer

#50. Everyone who has ever been sick or has ever been on medication long-term knows that when you fix one thing chemically in your body, you give something else up. Look at the list of side effects. There is no magic pill for health.

Katy Evans

#51. There was something called democracy. As though men were more than physico-chemically equal.

Aldous Huxley

#52. Fake food
I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut
is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.

Julia Child