Homunculus Quotes

#1. No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a homunculus.

J.P. Mac

#2. Something ELSE set your body in motion, sent an executive summary - almost an afterthought - to the homunculus behind your eyes ... that arrogant subroutine that thinks of itself as The person, mistakes correlation for causality, ... and thinks He moved the finger

Peter Watts

#3. I found the word dwarf really offensive, but there was not one better synonym in the dictionary. Midget? Pygmy? Manikin? Homunculus? They all sounded worse to me, so I had to accept my fate.

Nick Nwaogu

#4. I ate him," said the homunculus, biting into his sausage.
The kids couldn't hide their looks of horror.
He smiled, sausage juice running down his chin. "Oh, don't worry - I cooked him first. I'm not a barbarian.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#5. A freakish homunculus germinated outside of lawful procreation.

Henry Arthur Jones

#6. In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being - a homunculus - that was planted inside the womb. Development consisted of the miniature homunculus enlarging and passing through birth and on to maturity-just like inflating a balloon.

John Tyler Bonner

#7. I always enjoy being the obvious homunculus of the pair.

Peter Jacobson

#8. O my
Homunculus, I am ill.
I have taken a pill to kill
The thin
Papery feeling.
From the poem "Cut", 24 October 1962

Sylvia Plath

#9. I don't think that anything anyone has to say should ever be censored or unheard

Eminem

#10. Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. I was gazing back in the direction of Wales, watching the Prudence clone, when I noticed a couple of drunks lurching in my direction. Night people who live in service stations. The insufficiently deceased.

Iain Sinclair

#12. I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

Antonio Tabucchi

#13. I lead a very busy life and don't have a lot of time, so my skincare needs to be easy and portable.

Erin O'Connor

#14. I wondered again if I might not actually be dead-if this was some terrible version of death, which I had momentarily mistaken for a continuation of life.

Elizabeth Kostova

#15. I have things I say over and over again, for sure, but I've never wanted to make an album or really go on the road. I don't want any traction. I just want to be able to express myself and to feel love.

Jenny Slate

#16. My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

Robert Moog

#17. I usually set aside a lot of time in advance of a movie with important roles for kids to search, but when you have great ones, they can be a real ace in the hole.

Wes Anderson

#18. I asked Tuffins to put him in the garden, bring tea, and make sure no one disturbed us. I couldn't keep Mr. Braddock inside when I planned on shouting the roof down.

Tarun Shanker

#19. Much of the beauty of light owes its existence to the dark.

Brene Brown

#20. He was overwhelmed by the love he felt for her; tears filled his eyes and the ache in his throat ran deep into his chest. He ran down the hill to the river, through the light rain until th pain faded like fog mist. He stood and watched the rainy dawn, and he knew he would find her again.

Leslie Marmon Silko

#21. PSALM 46 God is our c refuge and strength, a very d present [2] help in e trouble.

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