#naked

Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#cell #cells #chicken #conditions #different

The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist. ↗

— Simon Wiesenthal

#end #killed #knew #naked #near

There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world. ↗

— Steve Martin

#art #get #important #important things #intrigue

If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked. ↗

— Kate O'Brien

#base #first #gets #i #naked

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth. ↗

— George Dennison Prentice

#bare #naked #necessarily #truth

I'm making the statement that we should all live life and have a laugh. Nakedness is a thing where people take notice. If you do it in the right way, people laugh. ↗

— Mark Roberts

#laugh #life #live #live life #making

We are all born naked into this world, but each of us is fully clothed in potential. ↗

— Emmitt Smith

#clothed #each #fully #into #naked

I would never become a size zero. I work out because I want to look good naked, simple as that. ↗

— Kelly Rowland

#become #good #i #look #naked

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#anything #attained #away #been #body

What's with the serum?" I don't know, but it sounds ominous. We better put a telepathic direction finder on Benway. The man's not to be trusted. Might do almost anything...Turn a massacre into a sex orgy..." Or a joke." Precisely. Arty type...No principles... ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#arty-type #benway #burroughs #naked-lunch #art