Vacuole Quotes

#1. The self in the twentieth century is a voracious nought which expands like the feeding vacuole of an amoeba seeking to nourish and inform its own nothingness by ingesting new objects in the world but, like a vacuole, only succeeds in emptying them out.

Walker Percy

#2. I became involved in a residential school for the blind in Raleigh - the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.

Ronnie Milsap

#3. I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.

David Mermin

#4. The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

Christopher Morley

#5. Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.

Winston Graham

#6. I can touch my eyebrows with my nose. Look at that! That's not normal. I shouldn't be able to do that.

Josh Thomas

#7. Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

Laurence Sterne