Containing Quotes - Page 8

• Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.

  Robert Hugh Benson

  Spiritual, Intellectual, Society

  8 Copy quote

• Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.

  Michael Pollan

  Ingredients, Thirds, Products

  Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.19, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.

  Dave Barry

  Risk, Normal, Anthem

  "Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway". Book by Dave Barry, 2001.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Yards, Events

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.120, Crown Archetype

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

  Jack Herer

  Quality, Rags, Paper

  4 Copy quote

• Pierre Curie voluntarily exposed his arm to the action of radium for several hours. This resulted in damage resembling a burn that developed progressively and required several months to heal. Henri Becquerel had by accident a similar burn as a result of carrying in his vest pocket a glass tube containing radium salt. He came to tell us of this evil effect of radium, exclaiming in a manner at once delighted and annoyed: "I love it, but I owe it a grudge."

  Marie Curie

  Glasses, Evil, Annoyed

  31 Copy quote

• I really like to play inside. I really like being able to go one-on-one with an offensive lineman every play. At defensive end, you're more running up the field and containing more than you are just against an offensive lineman.

  Darrion Scott

  Running, Play, Able

  33 Copy quote

• Ampoules containing cortisone, testosterone gel residues, syringes and needles, a centrifuge for measuring my blood values.But, contrary to the erroneous reports in the press, they didn't find any EPO or growth hormone.

  Patrik Sinkewitz

  Growth Hormones, Blood, Testosterone

  4 Copy quote

• Only here [in the Center] a new union can occur, as the Mysterious Pass is the ideal space and time to experience the interpenetrating fluctuations of Yin and Yang. The Mysterious Pass is therefore the primordial Chaos (hundun) containing the germ of life-the pre-cosmic sparkle of Original Yang and Original Yin-which is the prime mover and the materia prima of the alchemical work.

  Monica Esposito

  Space, Yang, Unions

  6 Copy quote

• I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.

  Jeff Mangum

  Ideas, Sound, Different

  "Neutral Milk Hotel". Interview with Marci Fierman, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2002.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source