#sea

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#brain #cling #coral #eats #finds

I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

#each #evolution #i #i think #new

I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#always #ashamed #back #back to school #behavior

Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in. ↗

— John Blair

#arrest #assaulting #beaten #cell #charged

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#another #diseases #estimated #europeans #far

Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters. ↗

— George Cooper

#brow #isle #sea #smile #waters

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#changes #cradle #easy #every #every time

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. ↗

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#envelope #filed #get #life #life is a

If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats. ↗

— John Dingell

#colleagues #contributory #control #democratic #factors

I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like running around with everything I own in a paper bag. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#around #bag #because #been #did