Rhodendron Quotes & Sayings

Touch' is a multi-faceted concept, reflecting the different types of receptors. The simplest are free nerve endings which detect pain and changes in temperature; slightly more complex are Merkel's tactile cells (which detect pressure); followed by Grandry bodies, which consist of two to four tactile cells and detect movement (velocity); and the lamellated Herbst corpuscles (similar to Vater-Pacinian corpuscles in mammals), which are sensitive to acceleration. — Tim Birkhead

She might be idle, and silent, and forgetful, - and what seemed more than all other privileges - she might be unhappy if she liked. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility? — Thomas Sowell

A guy once told me that girls' purses reminded him of spiders. — P.C. Cast

You're already so close to perfection, but there are these occasional lapses . . . — Pepper Winters

The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality. — John Rawls

When we kill a word, it's akin to killing off the dodo bird. Nothing can replace it, and it's impossible to know the scope of the loss." The — Beth Cato

Mountains. They stand at every view, like a mother offering a blanket in which to wrap everyday life and shelter it from useless. dreads. In june they are walls of white rhodendron blossom. In autumn the forests set themselves afflame with color. Even winter has its icy charms. — Barbara Kingsolver

Biological energy comes from the sun. Light energy harvested by photosynthesis in chloroplasts and phototropic bacteria becomes stored in carbohydrates and fats. This stored energy can be released by oxidative metabolism in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and used as fuel for other biological processes. — John E. Walker

If it was occasionally ludicrous, it was always sublime. [Estelle Jussim on the 19th century Cult of the Beautiful.] — Estelle Jussim

Ruby, give me one reason why we can't be together, and I'll give you a hundred why we can. We can go anywhere you want. I'm not your parents. I'm not going to abandon you or send you away, not ever. — Alexandra Bracken

Don't let anyone tell you you can't do something, because you can! — Greg Plitt

I'm generally a happy person -with the help of antidepressants, that is- so there is something to be said for surrounding myself with happy people. — Rachel Machacek

My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly. — Jean-Dominique Bauby

The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes. — Daniel Dennett