Slime Quotes - Page 2

• Soy vil y pervertido. Estoy obsesionado y trastornado. He existido durante años pero muy poco ha cambiado. Soy la herramienta del gobierno y también de la industria. Porque estoy destinado a gobernarte y regularte. Puedes pensar que soy pernicioso, pero no puedes apartar la mirada. Te haré creer que soy delicioso con las cosas que digo. Soy lo mejor que puedes conseguir... ¿me has adivinado ya? Soy la baba que rezuma de tu televisor.

  Frank Zappa

  Pensamiento, Gobierno, Años

  159 Copiar cita

• Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down when the earth sank, still stand upright so that if the sun shines from the right quarter, and the water is less muddy than common, a man, peering face downward into its depths, sees, or thinks he sees, down below him the bare top-limbs upstretching like drowned men's fingers, all coated with the mud of years and bandaged with pennons of the green lake slime.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Men, Thinking, Lakes

  7 Copiar cita

• Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The "self" was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Garden, Self, Order

  Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.151, Macmillan

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Desde que salimos de ese limo primigenio, ése ha sido nuestro grito unificador: "Más luz". Luz solar. La luz de las antorchas. Luz de velas. Neón. Incandescente. Luces que destierran la oscuridad de nuestras cuevas, para iluminar nuestras carreteras, el interior de nuestros frigoríficos. Grandes focos para los partidos nocturnos en el campo del Soldado. Pequeñas linternitas para esos libros que leemos bajo las sábanas cuando se supone que deberíamos estar durmiendo. La luz es más que vatios y candelas. La luz es metáfora... La luz es conocimiento. La luz es vida. La luz es luz.

  Diane Frolov

  Libro, Conocimiento, Noche

  "Northern Exposure". www.imdb.com. 1990-1995.

  74 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of precarious slime, of surface mildew, in which a ferment is already working. A turbulent, spasmodic sap, a presage and expectation of a new way of being, breaking with mineral perpetuity and boldly exchanging it for the doubtful privilege of being able to tremble, decay, and multiply.

  Roger Caillois

  Expectations, Challenges, Secret

  Roger Caillois (1985). "La escritura de las piedras", Univ of Virginia Pr

  5 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Struggle, Eye, Dust

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1993). “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: The Merry Men and Other Stories”, p.53, Wordsworth Editions

  6 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• There are some souls so base and filthy that they love gain and interest as noble souls love fame and virtue, knowing one pleasure only, that of making money or of not losing it; anxious and avid for their ten per cent; entirely preoccupied with what is owed them; forever concerned about the depreciation or discredit of money; buried, and as it were engulfed, amid contracts, title-deeds and parchments. Such people are neither parents, friends, citizens or Christians, nor, perhaps, even men; they merely have money.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Greed, Soul, Mind

  "Of Worldly Goods". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

  7 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• In business, as in politics, the public is ever so tolerant of those who slime.

  Christopher Moore

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Practical Demonkeeping”, p.90, Zondervan

  12 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence - whereas traditional cultures see it as descended from its superiors. As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins put the matter: We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else take it for granted that they are descended from gods.

  Huston Smith

  People, Humanity, Religion

  9 Copiar cita

• Soy la baba que rezuma de tu televisor. Me obedecerás mientras te guíe, y comerás la basura mientras te alimente.

  Frank Zappa

  Reality, Garbage, Tvs

  9 Copiar cita

• Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

  Mary Roach

  Birth, Forget, Biology

  51 Copiar cita

• Compórtate de modo que el aroma de tus acciones realce la dulzura general del ambiente.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Atmósfera, Mayo, Aroma

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). "Thoreau sobre la naturaleza: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World", p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

  91 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• The infantryman slithers in the mud, while many teams of horses are needed to drag each gun forward. All wheeled vehicles sink up to their axles in the slime. Even tractors can only move with great difficulty. A large portion of our heavy artillery was soon stuck fast... The strain that all this caused our already exhausted troops can perhaps be imagined.

  Gunther Blumentritt

  Horse, Military, Team

  4 Copiar cita

• Ten la seguridad de que el éxito de cada hombre es proporcional a su capacidad media. Las flores de la pradera brotan y florecen donde las aguas depositan anualmente su limo, no donde llegan en algún frescor solamente. Un hombre no es su esperanza, ni su desesperación, ni aún su obra pasada. No sabemos aún lo que hemos hecho, y menos aún lo que estamos haciendo. Espera a la noche, y otras partes de nuestro trabajo del día brillarán más de lo que habíamos pensado al mediodía, y descubriremos el verdadero significado de nuestro trabajo. Como cuando el labrador ha llegado al final del surco y mira hacia atrás, puede decir mejor dónde brilla más la tierra labrada.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Éxito, Paciencia, Primavera

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). "Una semana en los ríos Concord y Merrimack (edición anotada)", p.106, Jazzybee Verlag.

  10 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• La orilla del mar es una especie de terreno neutral, un punto muy ventajoso desde el que contemplar este mundo. Es incluso un lugar trivial. Las olas que siempre se mueven hacia la tierra son demasiado lejanas e indomables para ser familiares. Deslizándonos por la interminable playa entre la espuma y el chapoteo del sol, nos damos cuenta de que nosotros también somos producto del limo marino.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beach, Sea, Land

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). "Obras completas Delphi de Henry David Thoreau (Ilustradas)", p.825, Delphi Classics.

  8 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to understand it, because not only does it seem incredible and thoroughly demeaning to us, but it's yet another shock to our system to discover that not only are we not the centre of the Universe and we're not made by anything, but we started out as some kind of slime and got to where we are via being a monkey. It just doesn't read well.

  Douglas Adams

  Long, Doe, Monkeys

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.133, Del Rey

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• El mal vive en un pozo. Si quieres luchar contra él, debes bajar al fango para hacerlo. Las capas blancas muestran la suciedad más que las negras, y la plata se empaña.

  David Gemmell

  Lucha, Blanco, Mal

  David Gemmell (2011). "The King Beyond The Gate", p.101, Hachette UK.

  17 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrustation of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water.

  Robin McKinley

  Country, Dust, Land

  Robin Mckinley (2002). “Spindle's End”, p.11, Penguin

  9 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Each man carries the vestiges of his birth; the slime and eggshells of his primeval past with him to the end of his days. Some never become human, remaining frog, lizard, ant. Some are human above the waist, fish below.

  Hermann Hesse

  Past, Men, Lizards

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). "Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [y] Hermann Hesse"

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• But this is not a world of free freights. One pays according to an iron schedule--for every strength the balanced weakness; for every high a corresponding low; for every fictitious god-like moment an equivalent time in reptilian slime. For every feat of telescoping long days and weeks of life into mad magnificent instants, one must pay with shortened life, and, oft-times, with savage usury added.

  Jack London

  Iron, Mad, Long

  Jack London (2016). “John Barleycorn”, p.28, Xist Publishing

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• El envidioso se enflaquece con la gordura de su prójimo. La envidia es la hija del orgullo, la autora del asesinato y la venganza, la iniciadora de la sedición secreta y la perpetua atormentadora de la virtud. La envidia es el fango inmundo del alma; un veneno, un veneno o azogue que consume la carne y seca la médula de los huesos.

  Socrates

  Hija, Venganza, Orgullo

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). "Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study"

  17 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, in the Palæozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime.

  Langdon Smith

  Tadpoles, Pals, Tides

  17 Copiar cita

• Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and make fouler still with its slime?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dust, Doe, Slavery

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.233, Graphic Arts Books

  5 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Las babosas se arrastran y se arrastran sobre nuestras coles, como la calumnia del mundo sobre un buen nombre. Puedes matarlas, es cierto; pero ahí está la baba.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Names, Slugs, World

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.146

  9 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Que el espacio bajo el primer piso sea oscuro, que el agua
  bañe los postes de piedra, y el limo verde y vivo brille
  sobre ellos; que se guarde allí una barca.

  Denise Levertov

  Oscuridad, Espacio, Agua

  Denise Levertov (1967). "La danza del dolor: Poemas", [New York] : New Directions

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente