Thorax Quotes

#1. What would a Martian visitor think to see a human being laugh? It must look truly horrible: the sight of furious gestures, flailing limbs, and thorax heaving in frenzied contortions ...

Marvin Minsky

#2. Never mind," I said crisply. "I have my methods." I dug out my entire stock of manly courage, breathed a short prayer and let her have it right in the thorax.

P.G. Wodehouse

#3. Finn whispered, "What has a head, thorax, and abdomen, but stands six feet tall?"
"A snowman?

Ridley Pearson

#4. But when I look in the basin, among the curdlike blood clots, I see and elfin thorax, attentuated, its pencilline ribs all in parallel rows with tiny knobs of spine rounding upwards. A translucent arm and hand swim beside.

Sallie Tisdale

#5. I put a gentle hand to my chest as I surveyed the situation. The turquoise
blue swimming pool some distance behind the lawn was no longer behind that lawn, but within my thorax, and my organs swam in it like excrements in the blue sea water in Nice.

Vladimir Nabokov

#6. Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Lance Morrow

#7. My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself.

Jeremiah Burroughs

#8. The monstrumologist laughed, and lifted his face toward the bleeding sky.

Rick Yancey

#9. When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering.

Joseph Heller

#10. I am as much interested in the smallest detail as in the whole structure.

Marcel Breuer

#11. We have to face it at last. We're not all human.

William Golding

#12. As long as we have life, we must keep learning.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.

John Searle

#14. The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.

Dick Wolf

#15. will that which is necessary and then to love that which is willed.

Irvin D. Yalom

#16. Love is the experience that others are not others. Beauty is the experience that objects are not objects.

Rupert Spira

#17. Reason and right give the quickest despatch.

Owen Feltham