Ingenhousz Quotes & Sayings

I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not do, wishing we were outside or simply elsewhere, wishing we were reading, thinking, making love, fishing, sleeping, or simply having time to figure out who the hell we are and what the hell we're doing. — Derrick Jensen

If it was the warmth of the sun, and not its light, that produced this operation, it would follow, that, by warming the water near the fire about as much as it would have been in the sun, this very air would be produced; but this is far from being the case.. — Jan Ingenhousz

Between Twitter and Facebook and how close you can be with your fans and how close they can be to you these days is, I think, quite miraculous. It's like getting a greeting card every single day. — Holland Roden

Sun is shining gloriously from my words; and the day reaps gratitudes for me. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

What did you think I was?"
"A rude Hick."
"Geez, blunt much? — Cynthia Hand

He looked like a naughty child who had managed to steal the moon and eat it. — George R R Martin

I observed that plants not only have a faculty to correct bad air in six to ten days, by growing in it ... but that they perform this important office in a complete manner in a few hours; that this wonderful operation is by no means owing to the vegetation of the plant, but to the influence of light of the sun upon the plant. — Jan Ingenhousz

No one is so good that he is immune from temptation. We will never be entirely free from it ... There is no order so holy, no place so secret where there will be no temptation. — Thomas A Kempis

What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread — David Levithan

I just wish I had something stronger than Pepsi in the car that night!" * — Ryan Sprague