#cell

Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence. ↗

— Debi Thomas

#being #belief #excellence #i #i always

I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#destination #excellent #good #good person #got

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#cell #fact #family #genes #grasses

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#astonishing #bolt #cell #cooled #derived

There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#agony #attach #body #cells #death

We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented, occupied. At the interior of our cells, driving them, providing the oxidative energy that sends us out for the improvement of each shining day, are the mitochondria, and in a strict sense they are not ours. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#cells #day #driving #each #energy

I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#always #because #excellent #i #i always

When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet. ↗

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

#cellar #closet #down #first #i

When you see something that's so excellent it can be intimidating to walk into it no matter how many people you know. ↗

— Clancy Brown

#how #intimidating #into #know #many

I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth something. ↗

— Will Champion

#brain cells #cells #decide #enough #got