Protoplasm Quotes

#1. I don't think all life is precious. I know people say that all the time, "Life is precious." I think some life is precious, and some life is just a waste of protoplasm. Start over.

Bill Maher

#2. You bastard, he thought, almost affectionately, watching the minuscule protoplasm fluttering on the slide. You dirty little bastard.

Richard Matheson

#3. It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.

John B. S. Haldane

#4. I don't want to be a PULSATING PIECE OF PROTOPLASM!

Roz Chast

#5. The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force".

John B. S. Haldane

#6. This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.

Asa Gray

#7. It was wearisome to contemplate that animate protoplasm, reasonable by courtesy only, shut up in a car by an incomprehensible civilization, taken somewhere, to do a vague something without aim or significance or consequence.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as hewill, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod.

Thomas Huxley

#9. O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do anything.

Marshall Brickman

#10. People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

Robert Redford

#11. When water freezes it expands; in cells, ice crystals can tear the protoplasm apart.

Brian Capon

#12. To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.

Alfred Russel Wallace

#13. Miniture protoplasm, the dirty little bastard!

Richard Matheson

#14. Born to be a natural artist you love or hate but can't deny
While us minions in our millions tumble into history's chasm
We might have a couple of laughs but we're still wastes of protoplasm

Jeffrey Lewis

#15. The human brain is the most complex mass of protoplasm on earth-perhaps even in our galaxy.

Marian Diamond

#16. One minute you're a developing athlete trying to get to the top, then the next minute you do well and win a medal somewhere, and then it's all foisted on you. You never know when it's going to happen. You don't think about the media side of things when you're a young athlete trying to do well.

Jessica Ennis

#17. But the law of magnetism really is true: who you are is who you attract.

John C. Maxwell

#18. Maybe we should have this conversation in an alternate universe where Alternate Indy gives a shit what Alternate Lee wants her to wear.

Kristen Ashley

#19. Hopeful soul, indomitable spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.

Idries Shah

#21. Men, to act with vigour and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method of applying them. They must not be hurried on to their conclusions by the passions, or the fears of the multitude. They must deliberate, as well as resolve.

Joseph Story

#22. My inamorata, you know where I'll be: where I'll always be. Waiting. For you.

Debra Anastasia