Lab Technician Quotes & Sayings

Time is just something we invented to make motion seem simple. — Albert Einstein

We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them. — Northrop Frye

Topics ... are what people talk about when they don't know each other well. Topics ... are what men talk about. — Patricia Gaffney

The carpenter, lab technician, and conductor are all craftsmen because they are dedicated to good work for its own sake. — Richard Sennett

Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise though, to try to extend life by not breathing at all.
Which of us doesn't do it? Either we loll in anaerobic stupor, too afraid to fill our lungs with risky beauty, or we roll out fire like dragons, destroying the world we love.
I try not to burn up my world with rage.
It is so hard. — Jeanette Winterson

CELL

Now look objectively. You have to
admit the cancer cell is beautiful.
If it were a flower, you'd say, How pretty,
with its mauve centre and pink petals

of if a cover for a pulpy thirties
sci-fi magazine. How striking:
as an alien, a success,
all purple eye and jelly tentacles
and spines, or are they gills,
creeping around on granular Martian
dirt red as the inside of the body,

while its tender walls
expand and burst, its spores
scatter elsewhere, take root, like money,
drifting like a fiction or
miasma in and out of people's
brains, digging themselves
industriously in. The lab technician

says, It has forgotten
how to die. But why remember? All it wants is more
amnesia. More life, and more abundantly. to take
more. to eat more. To replicate itself. To keep on
doing those things forever. Such desires
are not unknown. Look in the mirror. — Margaret Atwood

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. — John Steinbeck

An onion-breathed technician in a lab coat measures the distance between Werner's temples, the circumference of his head, and the thickness and shape of his lips. Calipers are used to evaluate his feet, the length of his fingers, and the distance between his eyes and his navel. They measure his penis. The angle of his nose is quantified with a wooden protractor. — Anthony Doerr

yourself in the LORD, and he will c give you the desires of your heart. 5 d Commit your way to the LORD; z trust in him, and he will act. — Anonymous

When I was thirty, I asked a nurse to let me die. In a couple days, I'm going to play "Cheap Sunglasses" alongside the man who wrote it. — Duff McKagan

I was sorry I'd scared them, but some lessons you ought to learn as soon as you can: never trust a woman once she's loved you. It's a spell whose breaking takes many tries; she'll think she's through, then call you back, conjure you up out of air. And at last, she'll do anything, just to be free. — Katie Chase

Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine. — Geraldine Brooks

The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste. — Walter J. Phillips

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected. — Ernest Mandel