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30 "Fluid" Quotes

"Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny."

--- Aaron McGruder

#Very Smart #Smart #Energetic

"I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola."

--- Adam Savage

#Fierce #Standing #Cooling

"Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows."

--- Adrian Bejan

#Features #Example #Information

"The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal."

--- Adrienne Rich

#Unstable #Vessel #Moon

"If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes."

--- Agnes Repplier

#History #Fluid #Ifs

"The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues."

--- Alan Alda

#Thinking #Found #Interesting

"Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion."

--- Alessandro Volta

#Differences #Different #Electric

"Anyone else feel like that? Like your life's a big act. Like you're trying to be a man when you're just a scared kid, trying to keep under control when you really want to scream, cry, or maybe hit someone. Ever feel like you're breathing underwater and you have to stop because you're gulping in too much fluid."

--- Alex Flinn

#Feels #Too Much #Kids

"I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing."

--- Alex Lifeson

#Scales #Play #Way

"The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at regular intervals, give the cells what they require for nutrition, and as far as we know, the pulsation of life can go on forever."

--- Alexis Carrel

#Goes On #Degenerates #Intervals

"This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man."

--- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Creation #Centre #Wheeling

"I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop where the scrub lining the railroad tracks had offered local companies enough cover to dump a stray contaner or two. Everything had been sealed up, but things were beginning to leak out. I had come to both pity and respect Len in the years since my mother left. He followed the physical to try to understand things that were impossible to comphrehend. In that, I could see, he was like me."

--- Alice Sebold

#Thinking #Barrels #Company

"The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible."

--- Allan Kaprow

#Lines #Fluid #Art

"HEART, n. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments . . . . It is now known that sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid."

--- Ambrose Bierce

#Emotion #Said #Known

"My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to spectre, from spectre to plant from plant to galaxy. My works are the irrigation veins of this universal fluid. Through them ascend the ancestral sap, the original beliefs, the primordial accumulations, the unconscious thoughts that animate the world"

--- Ana Mendieta

#Universal Energy #Galaxy #Sap

"Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment."

--- Anais Nin

#That Moment #Destroying #Moments

"It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy."

--- Anatol Rapoport

#Vessel #Empty Vessels #Way

"Three, community built on androgynous identity will mean the end of transsexuality as we know it. Either the transsexual will be able to expand his/her sexuality into a fluid androgyny, or, as roles disappear, the phenomenon of transsexuality will disappear and that energy will be transformed into new modes of sexual identity and behavior."

--- Andrea Dworkin

#Mean #Transsexuals #Androgyny

"If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid."

--- Andrew Scott

#Forget It #Forget #Stories

"I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender."

--- Andrew Solomon

#People #Mets #Feels

"There is an endorphin rush that comes when you puke. It's kind of like a runners wall. Once you cross that wall, once you cross that party wall and you puke, you do get a rush. There are good chemicals there. And also, you've made more room in your gut, in your stomach, in your gullet for more content, whether it be fluids or foods."

--- Andrew W.K.

#Guts #Made #Puke

"The underlying idea is that you can prevent disease by balancing your body's pH... None of these claims are true. Furthermore, your body needs absolutely no help in adjusting its pH. Normally, the pH of blood and most body fluids is near seven, which is close to neutral. This is under very tight biological control because all of the chemical reactions that maintain life depend on it. Unless you have serious respiratory or kidney problems, body pH will remain in balance no matter what you eat or drink."

--- Andrew Weil

#Claims #Drink #Seven

"Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts."

--- Ann Aguirre

#Feels #Cutting #Moments

"Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree."

--- Anna Maria Chavez

#Counterparts #Nonprofits #Adapting

"We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time."

--- Anne Lamott

#Tape #Feels #Ends

"We're like Magic 8-Balls. After you ask your question and shake the 8-Ball, you read the answer in the little window. If you ever broke open a Magic 8-Ball with a hammer, you discovered that it contained a many-sided plastic object, with an answer on every facet, floating in a cylinder of murky blue fluid. The many-sided core held the answer to your question. My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are."

--- Anne Lamott

#Who We Are #Asks #Answers

"Over time, each day has become another stretch on an endless pilgrimage road. The terrain of this sacred journey has become fluid and ever-shifting. Every step of the way is an arrival, but not a place to linger."

--- Anthony Lawlor

#Each Day #Steps #Journey

"Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be so far immersed that the weight of the solid will be equal to the weight of the fluid displaced. On floating bodies I, prop 5."

--- Archimedes

#Lighters #Fluid #Body

"In diabetes the thirst is greater for the fluid dries the body ... For the thirst there is need of a powerful remedy, for in kind it is the greatest of all sufferings, and when a fluid is drunk, it stimulates the discharge of urine."

--- Aretaeus of Cappadocia

#Diabetes #Remedy #Fluid

"Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour."

--- Aristotle

#Solutions #Experiments #Sweet

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