#sterile

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#decided #frustrations #had #into #led

And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped. ↗

— John Hersey

#against #became #had #his #ingenuity

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#corporate #death #guard #internationalist #learn

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile. ↗

— Alan Alda

#i #live #makes #sterile #sun

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#branches #cracking #existence #me #sterile

So many celebrity websites you go to are so sterile that you know they just pay somebody to do it and there's not even an ounce of them in it. ↗

— Cindy Margolis

#even #go #just #know #many

Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife. ↗

— Carolyn Murphy

#amazing thing #basically #been #behind #birth

And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers. ↗

— Lennart Nilsson

#enemy #hold #increase #light #lighting

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#becomes #begins #between #death #emotion

I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#come #danger #i #i think #made