Semipermeable Quotes

#1. We are semipermeable membranes. We can pick and choose which troubles are worthy of our attention. What sinks us can only do so with our permission; a boat stays afloat until the water gets in.

Joyce Rachelle

#2. The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass ...

Erica Jong

#3. This is the whistle-stop memoir of how a lower-middle-class girl from the north of England one day changed the way she lived her life and set off on a bumpy path that ultimately led her to her own slice of the happily-ever-after pie.

Tillie Cole

#4. Nelson Mandela was just a human being, a person like other people, and everyone relaxed. Within a minute, that sort of thing about the leader and the lead, the gap was closed, and that's a rare thing.

Kumi Naidoo

#5. Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!

Luigi Pirandello

#6. Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

Albert Camus

#7. Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.

John Milton