Glands Quotes

• A couple of hanging glands have nothing to do with making someone a man.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Couple, Men, Adrenal Glands

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• Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!

  Tennessee Williams

  Animal, Giving, Chance

  Tennessee Williams (1996). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.4, Heinemann

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• Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.

  Charles Horace Mayo

  Heart, Knowledge, Science

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• I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war-which is international sports and I suppose motorcycle races-to encourage the secretion of the adrenal glands!

  James McKeen Cattell

  Sports, War, Night

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• Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Adrenal Glands, Nerves, Lasts

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1957). “Experimental psychology, and other essays”

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• Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Adrenal Glands, Recipes, Evolution

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.16, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Lying, Discovery, Adrenal Glands

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1966). “Essential works”

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• A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.

  Dawn Powell

  Running, Book, Writing

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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• 'Early stages' is when the cancer is completely contained within the prostate. If it is detected when the cancer is entirely in the gland, the chance for full recovery is at its highest.

  Len Dawson

  Cancer, Recovery, Chance

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• New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

  Christopher Morley

  New York, Cities, Literature

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• War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

  H. L. Mencken

  Baby, Peace, War

  'Minority Report'. Collected in Notebooks (1956).

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• For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Yoga, Health

  "Complete Essays: 1920-1925".

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• Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Powerful, Adrenal Glands, Appetite

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• From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Ice Cream, Swag, Eating

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• If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Mom, Baby

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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• Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

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• I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that, like you'd feel if you have a cold, so I didn't really think it was anything.

  Adam Yauch

  Thinking, Feelings, Littles

  "Adam 'MCA' Yauch of the Beastie Boys dies at 47" by Michael Pearson, www.cnn.com. May 4, 2012.

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• The brain is viewed as an appendage of the genital glands.

  Carl Jung

  Sex, Brain

  Carl Gustav Jung, Constance Ellen Long (1917). “Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology”

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• The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbour a nonphysical mind.

  E. O. Wilson

  Brain, Mind, Religion

  "Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries?" by Marilynne Robinson, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2010.

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• Keep the Pineal Gland operating and you will Never grow Old, You will always be Young.

  Edgar Cayce

  Pineal Gland, Young, Old You

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• Personality is the gland of creativity.

  Sholem Asch

  Creativity, Personality

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• Everybody is I, you all know you are you. And wheresoever's beings exist throughout all galaxies it doesn't any difference. You are all of them, and when they come into being that's you coming into being, you know that very well. Only you don't have to remember the past in the same way you don't have to think about how you work your thyroid gland. You don't have to know how to shine the sun, you just do it, like you breathe. Doesn't it really astonish you that you are this fantastically complex thing, and that you're doing all of this and you never had any education on how to do it.

  Alan Watts

  Past, Thinking, Differences

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• What a strange expression said the herbalist who would compare themselves to chopped liver in the first place? If you have to to choose an organ why not pick a gallbladder or a thymus gland instead? Much more interesting than a liver. Or what about chopped t-

  Christopher Paolini

  Expression, Interesting, Why Not

  Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The pineal gland of evolutionarily older animals, such as lizards and amphibians, is also called the 'third' eye. Just like the two seeing eyes, the third eye possesses a lens, cornea, and retina. It is light-sensitive and helps regulate body temperature and skin coloration-two basic survival functions related to environmental light.

  Rick Strassman

  Eye, Animal, Two

  Rick Strassman (2000). “DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but a sublimity inseperable from the urinary tract: transports bordering upon excretion, a heaven of the glands, sudden sancitity of the orifices. It takes no more than a moment of attention for this intoxication, shaken, to cast you back into the ordures of physiology or a moment of fatigue to recognize that so much ardor produces only a variety of mucous.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Love Is, Heaven, Solitude

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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