Mayfly Larvae Quotes

#1. Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

Abraham Verghese

#2. I did used to like trampolining, but I'm probably past it, I think. You need to have a really strong pelvic floor to be good at trampolining, and I've had three children.

Tamsin Greig

#3. There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

Aesop

#4. Neurotechnology may benefit from questioning what kinds of low-information-content signals we can read and write before we try to upload and download consciousness.

Christopher DeCharms

#5. Throwing a ball is not natural, whether it's overhand or underhand.

Jennie Finch

#6. Weapons Lab. Holy words.

Veronica Roth

#7. The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting.

Sun Tzu

#8. Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

John Henry Newman

#9. Lily, Atlas says just keep swimming. - Ellen DeGeneres

Colleen Hoover

#10. When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. There are no prescriptions for life.

Marty Rubin