I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting and useful phenomena occur. We live for example on the surface of a planet. It is at a surface where the catalysis of chemical reactions occur. It is essentially at a surface of a plant that sunlight is converted to a sugar. In electronics, most if not all active circuit elements involve non-equilibrium phenomena occurring at surfaces. Much of biology is concerned with reactions at a surface.
The president's come out with rules that say 'no new coal-fired power plants,’
Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.
[On Orson Welles:] When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that's been watered.
The plant goes down. The industry is weaker. The price of the commodity has lagged. Any of those things can push people into unemployment or lower income categories, and that hurts.
I wanted to say something about the universe. There's God, angels, plants. . . and horseshit.
even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.
Don't aim to plant churches. Aim to plant a church that will plant many other churches.
Coach Hedge shouted, 'Let the movie star go, you big ugly cupcake! Or I'm gonna plant my hoof right up your. . .
I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people, and that plant - that plant kills people.
But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither.
The mere fact that you get a lot of seeds in a packet doesn't mean you have to plant all of them.
One of my students told me that every time she learns the name of a plant, she feels as if she is meeting someone new. Giving a name to something is a way of knowing it.
I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.
I work too hard, I'd be a really bad mom, unfortunately. I can't even keep a plant!
Malaysia-Singapore bilateral relations can blossom beautifully if cultivated and nurtured like an orchid plant.
You can plant a dream.
The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.
If the braine sowes not corne, it plants thistles.
One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.