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I'm a Bristol person too, I lived in Bristol during the war. ~ Julian Glover
Bristol quotes by Julian Glover
Jamaica was the Ophir of the West of Scotland in those times. Upon its sugar fields and by the agency of its slave labour, Glasgow slowly emerged from its primeval state of small borough town, to be a business centre, rivalling and soon surpassing Bristol in its West India trade. ~ R.B. Cunninghame Graham
Bristol quotes by R.B. Cunninghame Graham
Every year, tens of millions of salmon return to the pristine shores of Bristol Bay in Alaska. They linger in the bay's cool, shallow waters before charging up nearby streams to spawn and create another generation of wild salmon. ~ Frances Beinecke
Bristol quotes by Frances Beinecke
Giselle Chapman was hired by Bristol-Myers Squibb, one of the leading pharmaceutical companies at that time. She became their number one sales representative, and went on to form her own consulting company. ~ Mark Goulston
Bristol quotes by Mark Goulston
Jess Pepper's review of the Avalon Strings:

'In a land so very civilized and modern as ours, it is unpopular to suggest that the mystical isle of Avalon ever truly existed. But I believe I have found proof of it right here in Manhattan.

To understand my reasoning, you must recall first that enchanting tale of a mist-enshrouded isle where medieval women--descended from the gods--spawned heroic men. Most notable among these was the young King Arthur. In their most secret confessions, these mystic heroes acknowledged Avalon, and particularly the music of its maidens, as the source of their power.

Many a school boy has wept reading of Young King Arthur standing silent on the shore as the magical isle disappears from view, shrouded in mist.

The boy longs as Arthur did to leap the bank and pilot his canoe to the distant, singing atoll. To rejoin nymphs who guard in the depths of their water caves the meaning of life. To feel again the power that burns within.

But knowledge fades and memory dims, and schoolboys grow up. As the legend goes, the way became unknown to mortal man. Only woman could navigate the treacherous blanket of white that dipped and swirled at the surface of the water.

And with its fading went also the music of the fabled isle.

Harps and strings that heralded the dawn and incited robed maidens to dance evaporated into the mists of time, and silence ruled.

But I tell you, Kind R ~ Bailey Bristol
Bristol quotes by Bailey Bristol
Her nerves, sated as they were, stirred beneath the caress of his fingertips. "Matthew ... what will happen next? Will you speak to my father?"
"Not yet. In the interest of preserving at least a semblance of decorum, I'm going to wait until I return from Bristol. By that time most of the guests will have left, and the family will be able to deal with the situation in relative privacy."
"My father will be overjoyed. But Mother will have conniptions. And Lillian ... "
"Will explode."
Daisy sighed. "My brothers aren't too fond of you, either."
"Really," he said in mock surprise. ~ Lisa Kleypas
Bristol quotes by Lisa Kleypas
There are two types of men when it comes to approaching lone pretty women in bars. The shit type and the don't-have-the-balls-to-be-a-shit jealous type, and I was the latter and in situations like this the prey becomes the hunter and it's all just an under-stocked meat market trading in egos, tits and shame. ~ John Bowie
Bristol quotes by John  Bowie
Don't you feel how connected we are?" I ask. "If I break your heart, I break mine." A sweet smile spreads over her lips and she nods. ~ Kennedy Ryan
Bristol quotes by Kennedy Ryan
Bristol-Meyers Squibb has reported success with monatomic ruthenium to correct cancer cells. Same with platinum and iridium, according to Platinum Metals Review. These atoms actually make the DNA strand correct itself, rebuilding without drugs or radiation. Iridium has been shown to stimulate the pineal gland and appears to fire up 'junk DNA,' leading to the possibility of increased longevity and reopening aging pathways in the brain. ~ James Rollins
Bristol quotes by James Rollins
Guy: So how'd you make an Eton Mess?
Harry: Tell him he only got into Bristol? ~ Laura Wade
Bristol quotes by Laura Wade
I really love New York, but I have to say, the humidity during the summer is a nightmare for a cartoonist. Not only am I sweating in my studio, my bristol board is curling up, the drafting tape is peeling off the board, my Rapidograph pens bleed the minute I put them to paper ... it's a disaster. ~ Adrian Tomine
Bristol quotes by Adrian Tomine
You must start with desire, keeping in mind that with the magic of believing you can obtain what you picture in your mind's eye. ~ Claude M. Bristol
Bristol quotes by Claude M. Bristol
Abu Dhabi is the hub of hell in August. ~ Jane Bristol-Rhys
Bristol quotes by Jane Bristol-Rhys
I'm going to Bristol," Matthew said desperately. "I'll reschedule the meetings. I won't do anything without your leave. But at least I can gather information - interview the local transport firm, have a look at their horses - "
"Swift," the earl interrupted. Something in his quiet tone, a note of ... kindness? ... sympathy? ... caused Matthew to stiffen defensively. "I understand the reason for your urgency - "
"No, you don't."
"I understand more than you might think. And in my experience, these problems can't be solved by avoidance. You can never run far or fast enough."
Matthew froze, staring at Westcliff. The earl could have been referring either to Daisy, or to Matthew's tarnished past. In either case he was probably right.
Not that it changed anything.
"Sometimes running is the only choice," Matthew replied gruffly, and left the room without looking back. ~ Lisa Kleypas
Bristol quotes by Lisa Kleypas
Bristol Rovers were 4-0 up at half time, with four goals in the first half. ~ Anthony Adamson
Bristol quotes by Anthony Adamson
You have to think big to be big. ~ Claude M. Bristol
Bristol quotes by Claude M. Bristol
Thought attracts that upon which it is directed. ~ Claude M. Bristol
Bristol quotes by Claude M. Bristol
Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent. ~ John Polkinghorne
Bristol quotes by John Polkinghorne
I open the toilet door and step out, my internal fire re-stoked, ready to face my demons, fight if need be and win. I'm raging, focused like a jungle warrior after his second bowl of tiger-cock soup. ~ John Bowie
Bristol quotes by John  Bowie
When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example. ~ Tom Stoppard
Bristol quotes by Tom Stoppard
'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing. ~ Hannah Murray
Bristol quotes by Hannah Murray
Those who prosper by thievery, thuggery, or by ruining another, have chosen to live on the devil's dime. ~ Bailey Bristol
Bristol quotes by Bailey Bristol
Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know? ~ Bristol Palin
Bristol quotes by Bristol Palin
We usually get what we anticipate. ~ Claude M. Bristol
Bristol quotes by Claude M. Bristol
The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort. ~ Roald Dahl
Bristol quotes by Roald Dahl
Whatever we fix our thoughts upon or steadily focus our imagination upon, that is what we attract. ~ Claude M. Bristol
Bristol quotes by Claude M. Bristol
I never knew him. We both knew this place,
apparently, this literal small backwater,
looked at it long enough to memorize it,
our years apart. How strange. And it's still loved,
or its memory is (it must have changed a lot).
Our visions coincided--'visions' is
too serious a word--our looks, two looks:
art 'copying from life' and life itself,
life and the memory of it so compressed
they've turned into each other. Which is which?
Life and the memory of it cramped,
dim, on a piece of Bristol board,
dim, but how live, how touching in detail
--the little that we get for free,
the little of our earthly trust. Not much.
About the size of our abidance
along with theirs: the munching cows,
the iris, crisp and shivering, the water
still standing from spring freshets,
the yet-to-be-dismantled elms, the geese. ~ Elizabeth Bishop
Bristol quotes by Elizabeth Bishop
To win you've got to stay in the game. ~ Claude M. Bristol
Bristol quotes by Claude M. Bristol
In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War. ~ Laura Wade
Bristol quotes by Laura Wade
If a mistake is made the honorable thing to do is to own up to it.' Of course I was talking about Levi owning up to his mistakes. But as I finish this book, I realize it applies equally to myself, and to all of us as we try but fail to live up to the standards we know are right. Our inability and unwillingness to keep the standards don't make the standards any less valuable and good. ~ Bristol Palin
Bristol quotes by Bristol Palin
What you believe yourself to be, you are. ~ Claude M. Bristol
Bristol quotes by Claude M. Bristol
I think I will be the most dressed [contestant and have] the most modest outfits for sure because that's who I am, ~ Bristol Palin
Bristol quotes by Bristol Palin
I don't ever have time for friends or anything like that. ~ Bristol Palin
Bristol quotes by Bristol Palin
A Horrid History of Christmas: Horrible Happening & Frightening Festivities Bristol Murders Cornish Murders (with John Van der Kiste) Dorset Murders Hampshire Murders Herefordshire Murders More Bristol Murders More Cornish Murders (with John Van der Kiste) More Hampshire Murders More Somerset Murders (with John Van der Kiste) Murder by Poison: A Casebook of Historic British Murders Oxfordshire Murders Shropshire Murders Somerset Murders (with John Van der Kiste) West Country Murders (with John Van der Kiste) ~ Nicola Sly
Bristol quotes by Nicola Sly
This women's orchestra made a demure picture in their muted dove grays, alright, but they played like they were gowned in scarlet and gold. ~ Bailey Bristol
Bristol quotes by Bailey Bristol
For centuries my father's family lived on Britain's biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade with the interior, and through the Port of Bristol with America. ~ Edward Rutherfurd
Bristol quotes by Edward Rutherfurd
May we always be happy, and may our enemies know it! ~ Bristol Palin
Bristol quotes by Bristol Palin
A pleasant morning. Saw my classmates Gardner, and Wheeler. Wheeler dined, spent the afternoon, and drank Tea with me. Supped at Major Gardiners, and engag'd to keep School at Bristol, provided Worcester People, at their ensuing March meeting, should change this into a moving School, not otherwise. Major Greene this Evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and Satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the Argument he advanced was, 'that a mere creature, or finite Being, could not make Satisfaction to infinite justice, for any Crimes,' and that 'these things are very mysterious.'
(Thus mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.)
[Diary entry, February 13 1756] ~ John Adams
Bristol quotes by John Adams
I love my baby more than anything. He's like a Gerber baby. He's the cutest baby in the whole world. ~ Bristol Palin
Bristol quotes by Bristol Palin
Chris hurried after him. 'It's so hard to believe we just travelled hundreds of light years.'
'Why?' asked the Doctor.
'I always understood that you cannot travel faster than light,' said Chris.
'Says who?'
'Says Einstein,' said Chris.
'What?' The Doctor stopped and put an arm around Chris's shoulder. 'Do you understand Einstein?'
Chris wasn't sure where this was going. 'Yes.'
'What?' gasped the Doctor. 'And quantum theory?'
'Yes,' said Chris. He basked in the Doctor's astonishment, on firmer ground at last.
'What?' gasped the Doctor. 'And Planck?'
'Yes,' said Chris.
'What?' gasped the Doctor. 'And Newton?'
'Yes!' said Chris.
'What?' gasped the Doctor. 'And Schoenberg?'
Chris paused. Was it a trick question? He recalled reading about the crisis of tonality. He thought he'd caught most of it, so he answered proudly, 'Yes. Of course.'
The Doctor whistled, apparently impressed. Then he said, 'You've got an awful lot to unlearn, Bristol. ~ Gareth Roberts
Bristol quotes by Gareth Roberts
Well of course it did and it would have made any man feel just as I did! I told Mama - perfectly politely! that it was enough to make me jump on the Bristol coach, and ship aboard the first packet bound for America, or anywhere else that Bristol boats sail to,because I would rather live in the Antipodes than have Cordelia hanging around my neck... ~ Georgette Heyer
Bristol quotes by Georgette Heyer
One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself. ~ Claude M. Bristol
Bristol quotes by Claude M. Bristol
The connection between dopamine and belief was established by experiments conducted by Peter Brugger and his colleague Christine Mohr at the University of Bristol in England. Exploring the neurochemistry of superstition, magical thinking, and belief in the paranormal, Brugger and Mohr found that people with high levels of dopamine are more likely to find significance in coincidences and pick out meaning and patterns where there are none. In one study, for example, they compared twenty self-professed believers in ghosts, gods, spirits, and conspiracies to twenty self-professed skeptics of such claims. They showed all subjects a series of slides consisting of people's faces, some of which were normal while others had their parts scrambled, such as swapping out eyes or ears or noses from different faces. In another experiment, real and scrambled words were flashed. In general, the scientists found that the believers were much more likely than the skeptics to mistakenly assess a scrambled face as real, and to read a scrambled word as normal.
In the second part of the experiment, Brugger and Mohr gave all forty subjects L-dopa, the drug used for Parkinson's disease patients that increases the levels of dopamine in the brain. They then repeated the slide show with the scrambled or real faces and words. The boost of dopamine caused both believers and skeptics to identify scrambled faces and real and jumbled words as normal. This suggests that patternicity may be associated with ~ Michael Shermer
Bristol quotes by Michael Shermer
Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning. ~ Dave Bristol
Bristol quotes by Dave Bristol
By the close of the nineteenth century her studies with her father were being supplemented by tuition in the classics from Dr Warr of King's College, Kensington, and from Clara Pater, sister of the English essayist and
critic Walter Pater (1839–94). Woolf was very fond of Clara and an exchange between them later became the basis for her short story 'Moments of Being: Slater's Pins Have No Points' (1928). Thoby boarded at Clifton College,
Bristol, Adrian was a dayboy at Westminster School, and Vanessa attended Cope's School of Art. Thoby, and later Adrian, eventually went to Trinity College, Cambridge, and Vanessa undertook training in the visual arts (attending the Slade School of Fine Art for a while). From 1902 Virginia's tuition in classics passed from Clara Pater to the very capable Janet Case, one of the first graduates from Girton College, Cambridge, and a committed feminist. The sisters visited Cambridge a number of times to meet Thoby, whose friends there included Clive Bell 1881–1964), Lytton Strachey (1880– 1932), Leonard Woolf (1880–1969) and Saxon Sydney-Turner. ~ Jane Goldman
Bristol quotes by Jane Goldman
If you believe you can do a thing, you can do it. ~ Claude M. Bristol
Bristol quotes by Claude M. Bristol
To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you - attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured. ~ Claude M. Bristol
Bristol quotes by Claude M. Bristol
They were Amy and Jeff Carruthers and they rode south out of Bristol, gravel chattering under the upswept fenders. After a while the man said suddenly, "Whats it like?" Amy glanced out at the fields. "Cotton. Everywhere nothing but cotton. ~ Shelby Foote
Bristol quotes by Shelby Foote
Davy's work in Bristol came under attack by conservative politicians, including the famous Irish MP Edmund Burke, who accused the gas experiments of promoting not only atheism but the French Revolution. ~ Mark Kurlansky
Bristol quotes by Mark Kurlansky
We were all puppets of someone in a self-perpetuating circle of pollutants, violence and hedonistic escapism. ~ John Bowie
Bristol quotes by John  Bowie
These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind. ~ Claude M. Bristol
Bristol quotes by Claude M. Bristol
I can't even believe the world we live in. My parents raised me to work hard, not to ever expect any handouts in life – and to treat people with respect. ~ Bristol Palin
Bristol quotes by Bristol Palin
As I walked out one evening,
Walking down Bristol Street,
The crowds upon the pavement
Were fields of harvest wheat.

And down by the brimming river
I heard a lover sing
Under an arch of the railway:
"Love has no ending.

"I'll love you, dear, I'll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,

"I'll love till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.

"The years shall run like rabbits,
For in my arms I hold
The Flower of the Ages,
And the first love of the world."

But all the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime:
"O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time.

"In the burrows of the Nightmare
Where Justice naked is,
Time watches from the shadow
And coughs when you would kiss.

"In headaches and in worry
Vaguely life leaks away,
And Time will have his fancy
Tomorrow or today.

"Into many a green valley
Drifts the appalling snow;
Time breaks the threaded dances
And the diver's brilliant bow.

"O plunge your hands in water,
Plunge them in up to the wrist;
Stare, stare in the basin
And wonder what you've missed.

"The glacier knocks in the cupboard,
The desert sighs in the be ~ W.H. Auden
Bristol quotes by W.H. Auden
Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are. ~ Claude M. Bristol
Bristol quotes by Claude M. Bristol
The whole idea is to enable you to see mentally the picture at all hours of the day. ~ Claude M. Bristol
Bristol quotes by Claude M. Bristol
Moonlight does things to a street scene that no other natural or man-made phenomenon can effect. People walk slower, their smiles lingering on contended faces. Horses that usually move along fast enough to stir up the dust off the street plod lazily in the clear, cool night. And in dark corners where people forget to look, the goons come out. ~ Bailey Bristol
Bristol quotes by Bailey Bristol
I suppose you have heard the news, Basil? said Lord Henry that evening as Hallward was shown into a little private room at the Bristol ~ Oscar Wilde
Bristol quotes by Oscar Wilde
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. ~ Claude M. Bristol
Bristol quotes by Claude M. Bristol
Dads should lead their family in the right ways of thinking. In this case, it would've been nice if the President would've helped shape their thoughts instead of merely reflecting what many teenagers think after one too many episodes of Glee. ~ Bristol Palin
Bristol quotes by Bristol Palin
I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book. ~ Bristol Palin
Bristol quotes by Bristol Palin
What color are you?" he repeats, his eyes never leaving my face. "You, Bristol, are a freaking prism. ~ Kennedy Ryan
Bristol quotes by Kennedy Ryan
Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16. ~ Hugo Weaving
Bristol quotes by Hugo Weaving
The bed lets out a slight gasp of air from the mattress like an old cat fart, but it looks like she's too caught up in herself to notice. ~ John Bowie
Bristol quotes by John  Bowie
Move your hands, Morgan," he commanded.
"It hurts!" she protested.
"It's supposed to. ~ Cara Bristol
Bristol quotes by Cara Bristol
I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics or a non-government organisation when I left. I might well do this later on. I'd love to represent a West Country seat in the House of Commons. ~ Ben Elliot
Bristol quotes by Ben Elliot
I'm a normal sized girl. I'm not a size double zero; I don't weigh 90 pounds. I'm a healthy girl. ~ Bristol Palin
Bristol quotes by Bristol Palin
I felt like I was faking all of this, like I was playing the part of a student. I had the costume and the props, but I didn't really belong here. I'd pinned notes on the stupid corkboard backing of my desk, and I'd highlighted things...But it was all so meaningless.

For about an hour, I had an overwheling urge to grab my bag, stuff in a few things, and take the next train to Bristol. I could be back on my parents' couch that night if I got moving. I could admit that I wasn't ready for this, that the semester was a wash. My parents would be thrilled, I was sure. Not about the semester being a wash--but certainly about having me back where they could keep me safe and sound. It would be so easy to do it. The very idea made me warm inside. It was okay to give up. I'd been brave. Everyone would say so.

And yet...even as I opened a dresser drawer and figured out which things I would take with me in this hypothetical scenario, i remembered the problem.

There would still be ghosts

i would still have a future.

I would still go back to school eventually. You can't curl up on the sofa and deny life forever. Life is always going to be a series of ouch-making moments, and the question was, was i going to go all fetal position, or was I going to woman up? ~ Maureen Johnson
Bristol quotes by Maureen Johnson
Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy. ~ Claude M. Bristol
Bristol quotes by Claude M. Bristol
Whatever cosmic attraction had drawn [Jess & Addie] to one another in the first place was beginning to fill in with the chinks and mortar of very real, very likeable human traits. ~ Bailey Bristol
Bristol quotes by Bailey Bristol
With all his soul he wanted to sweep her to him and tell her everything was going to be all right. To erase that awful bleakness from her face and with his two strong arms reshape the world for her, to make everything all right. But he had learned long ago the futility of racing from the truth. ~ Leigh Bristol
Bristol quotes by Leigh Bristol
The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always cold. ~ Philippa Gregory
Bristol quotes by Philippa Gregory
The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op. ~ Carol Vorderman
Bristol quotes by Carol Vorderman
One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup. ~ Claude M. Bristol
Bristol quotes by Claude M. Bristol
People just need to be confident in their own skin and be proud of themselves. ~ Bristol Palin
Bristol quotes by Bristol Palin
The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end ~ Claude M. Bristol
Bristol quotes by Claude M. Bristol
At a recent wedding one woman asked why I would agree to wear a traditional-style dress, and before I could answer my friend interjected 'because she studies our traditions and likes them more than we do! ~ Jane Bristol-Rhys
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Republican presidential hopeful Mike Hucka-BS is attacking actress Natalie Portman for getting pregnant without being married. It could get a little awkward if he runs into Sarah and Bristol Palin at Fox News. ~ Jay Leno
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It opened every part of her and made her belong to him, it was quiet and it was insidious and it was strong and flaming and it had dwelt within her so long that she could not refuse it any longer... It was Jake.
Only Jake. ~ Leigh Bristol
Bristol quotes by Leigh Bristol
I love my son more than anything. I will do whatever it takes to make sure he is raised the right way. ~ Bristol Palin
Bristol quotes by Bristol Palin
Somehow I got a place at Bristol University. I'm still waiting for the phone call to say that they made a mistake and got the wrong person. ~ Will Poulter
Bristol quotes by Will Poulter
Yeah, he's in pain except between the first and ninth innings ~ Dave Bristol
Bristol quotes by Dave Bristol
You are not what you think you are, but WHAT YOU THINK, the thoughts that habitually possess your mind, that is what you are ~ Claude M. Bristol
Bristol quotes by Claude M. Bristol
So trees communicate by means of olfactory, visual, and electrical signals. (The electrical signals travel via a from of nerve cell at the tips of the roots.) What about sounds? Let's get back to hearing and speech. When I said at the beginning of this chapter that trees are definitely silent, the latest scientific research casts doubt even on this statement. Along with colleagues from Bristol and Florence, Dr. Monica Gagliano from the University of Western Australia has, quite literally, had her ear to the ground. It's not practical to study trees in the laboratory; therefore, researchers substitute grain seedlings because they are easier to handle. They started listening, and it didn't take them long to discover that their measuring apparatus was registering roots crackling quietly at a frequency of 220 hertz. Crackling roots? That doesn't necessarily mean anything. After all, even dead wood crackles when it's burned in a stove. But the noised discovered in the laboratory caused the researchers to sit up and pay attention. For the roots of seedlings not directly involved in the experiment reacted. Whenever the seedlings' roots were exposed to a cracking at 220 hertz, they oriented their tips in that direction. That means the grasses were registering this frequency, so it makes sense to say they "heard" it. ~ Peter Wohlleben
Bristol quotes by Peter Wohlleben
Happiness is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking. ~ Claude M. Bristol
Bristol quotes by Claude M. Bristol
The room buzzes around us but we're fixed on each other, engaged in a battle of who can deprecate me more. She obviously doesn't believe such a man can exist and keeps at it, prodding and goading me like a fisherman harpooning an already beached whale. ~ John Bowie
Bristol quotes by John  Bowie
That was the whole trouble with police work. You come plunging in. a jagged Stone Age knife, to probe the delicate tissues of people's relationships, and of course you destroy far more than you discover. And even what you discover will never be the same as it was before you came; the nubbly scars of your passage will remain. At the very least. you have asked questions that expose to the destroying air fibers that can only exist and fulfill their function in coddling darkness. Cousin Amy, now, mousing about in back passages or trilling with feverish shyness at sherry parties - was she really made all the way through of dust and fluff and unused ends of cotton and rusty needles and unmatching buttons and all the detritus at the bottom of God's sewing basket? Or did He put a machine in there to tick away and keep her will stern and her back straight as she picks out of a vase of brown-at-the-edges dahlias the few blooms that have another day's life in them? Or another machine, one of His chemistry sets, that slowly mixes itself into an apparently uncaused explosion, poof!, and there the survivors are sitting covered with plaster dust among the rubble of their lives. It's always been the explosion by the time the police come stamping in with ignorant heels on the last unbroken bit of Bristol glass; with luck they can trace the explosion back to harmless little Amy, but as to what set her off - what were the ingredients of the chemistry set and what joggled them together - it was ~ Peter Dickinson
Bristol quotes by Peter Dickinson
Like a piss-soaked butterfly emerging from a cocoon, I push on over the bridge feeling like I'm establishing my transformation into my true self. ~ John Bowie
Bristol quotes by John  Bowie
John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he was always very tall and gangly, but he was smart and used his physicality in a very funny way. I used to think, 'Well he came from Weston and he did it, so there's a chance for me.' ~ Stephen Merchant
Bristol quotes by Stephen Merchant
There'll be two buses leaving the hotel for the park tomorrow. The 2:00 bus will be for those of you who need a little extra work. The empty bus will leave at 5:00. ~ Dave Bristol
Bristol quotes by Dave Bristol
Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you. ~ Claude M. Bristol
Bristol quotes by Claude M. Bristol
I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. ~ Brian Blessed
Bristol quotes by Brian Blessed
Undoubtedly we become what we envisage. ~ Claude M. Bristol
Bristol quotes by Claude M. Bristol
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