Rayner Voos Quotes & Sayings

Our tree's only source of energy is the sun: after light photons stimulate the pigments within the leaf, buzzing electrons line up into an unfathomably long chain and pass their excitement one to the other, moving biochemical energy across the cell to the exact location where it is needed. The plant pigment chlorophyll is a large molecule, and within the bowl of its spoon-shaped structure sits one single precious magnesium atom. The amount of magnesium needed for enough chlorophyll to fuel thirty-five pounds of leaves is equivalent to the amount of magnesium found in fourteen One A Day vitamins, and it must ultimately dissolve out of bedrock, which is a geologically slow process. — Hope Jahren

I like to edit; I like to work with other people, and that's something stand-up doesn't really have. — Kyle Dunnigan

Scriptures are as 'helping problem'. Scriptures only give directions. Scriptures are like a thermometer. Can you grind a thermometer and give it as medicine? — Dada Bhagwan

In dark moments of our existence; Life teaches us prudence. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Aikido is the Way and Principle of harmonizing Heaven, Earth and Man. — Morihei Ueshiba

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him. — Ernest Hemingway,

The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims. — Daniel J. Boorstin

At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare. — Albert Camus