Vermiform Appendix Quotes & Sayings

Isaac Watts, of course, is a hymn writer in the tradition of Congregationalism who lived in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century. He is very interesting and important because he was also a metaphysician. He knew a great deal about what was, for him, contemporary science. He was very much influenced by Isaac Newton, for example. There are planets and meteors and so on showing up in his hymns very often. But, again, the scale of his religious imagination corresponds to a very generously scaled scientific imagination. — Marilynne Robinson

After mastery comes artistry and not before. — Gregory Bateson

The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal. — Austin O'Malley

Life emerged so swiftly, in fact, that some authorities think it must have had help - perhaps a good deal of help. — Bill Bryson

There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste. — P.G. Wodehouse

The imagination serves us only when the mind is absolutely free of any prejudice. A single prejudice suffices to cool off the imagination. This whimsical part of the mind is so unbridled as to be uncontrollable. Its greatest triumphs, its most eminent delights consist in smashing all the restraints that oppose it. Imagination is the enemy of all norms, the idolater of all disorder and of all that bears the color of crime. — Marquis De Sade

I have heard of people's lives being changed by a dramatic or traumatic event
a death, a divorce, a winning lottery ticket, a failed exam. I never heard of anybody's life but ours being changed by a dinner party. — Wallace Stegner

No one can be alone when he befriends with the forgotten stranger inside him. — Sorin Cerin

Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix, and God. — H.L. Mencken

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob. — William F. Buckley Jr.

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone. — Wallace Shawn

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.' — Friedrich Nietzsche

If I'm going to do a big film, I'm very choosy about what I do, because I think I want to continue - in fact I'm sure I want to continue - to stay in the realm of independent films with directors and writers who are just emerging with new ideas and a different vision that hasn't really been expressed yet. — James Duval

Kyubey: When you decide to die for the good of the universe, call me anytime. I'll be waiting. — Magica Quartet

I got this powdered water - now I don't know what to add. — Steven Wright