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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
John Steinbeck
Sad
Soul
Germ
Quicker
Than
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson
Ambition
Tools
Virtue
Fit
Begets
Germ
Dependence
Prepares
Designs
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde
Ambition
Germ
Proceeds
Which
Growth
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
Berthold Auerbach
Work
Every
Completion
Feels
New
Germ
Artist
Which
Forms
Little
Dissatisfaction
To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
Barry Marshall
Saying
Earth
Like
Concept
Causing
Ulcer
Germ
Flat
The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.'
Lee Hall
Eyes
Theatre
Matters
Transformation
Every
Extraordinary
Out
Pretty
Point
Idea
Clearly
Know
Make
Maker
Audience
Material
Came
Germ
Front
Irrelevant
Where
Ordinary
Much
Speaking
Event
Now
Right
To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to be. Things cook away in your head when you're bored, and suddenly one day, you have a book or a germ of a book.
Neel Mukherjee
Good
Day
You
Book
Sit
Think
State
One Day
Must
Bored
Boredom
Write
Writers
Head
Germ
Very
Place
Cook
Your
Suddenly
Away
Things
As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.
Anita Baker
Time
You
People
Dangerous
Kiss
Stage
Kind
Vocal
Soon
Most
Singer
Because
Off
Germ
Get
Any
Your
Chords
Receptive
Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual.
Christian Lous Lange
Immediately
Rapidly
Only
Individual
Splits
Almost
New
Parts
Female
Male
Germ
Egg
Cell
Dies
Human
Human Body
Which
Created
Creating
Body
Organs
Union
Grows
Two
For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which diffuses about it self that natural Heat which preserves its Globe: And in the Onion, the Germ is the little Sun of that little World, which vivifies and nourishes the vegetative Salt of that little mass.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Natural
World
Salt
Universe
Preserves
Other
Sun
Seed
About
Onion
Self
Mass
Hotter
Globe
Parts
Germ
Than
Heat
Which
Little
Nourishes
Thereof
Apple
Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
G. Stanley Hall
Age
Protection
Despite
Our
Alive
Puny
Some
Civilization
Contagious
Greater
Germ
Disease
Diseases
Arts
Average
Bodies
Body
Hard
Keep
The idea of stopping is not unmeaningful to me. I think there might be a time when, in theory at least, you'd say, 'Well I've mostly done what I want to do.' But how could you ever prevent a few years down the line some germ of an idea getting at you and you've got to do it again?
Graham Swift
Time
Me
You
Few
Down
Think
Say
Some
Prevent
Could
Idea
Well
Mostly
Got
How
Least
Line
Years
Germ
Done
Getting
Stopping
Want
Again
Might
Theory
Ever
A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.
Jane Smiley
Will
Every
System
Immune
Come
Ideas
Protected
Vulnerable
Germ
Infection
Overwhelm
Child
May
Controversial
Who
Belief
There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.
Jim Lehrer
Truth
Everything
About
Always
Germ
Just
I don't think in genres. Once I get a germ of an idea I wait for it to die! And if it refuses to die and keeps coming back, I start thinking more about it. Then come the world and the characters. I wait to get bored and if I don't get bored- then I start building on them.
Kanika Dhillon
World
Wait
Building
Think
Thinking
Back
Once
Characters
Bored
About
More
Idea
Come
Genres
Coming
Germ
Get
Die
Refuses
Them
Then
Keeps
Start
It happens a lot that a name actor will be signed on to a project in its germ stage.
Kelly Asbury
Will
Stage
Project
Signed
Name
Lot
Germ
Happens
Actor
I did a school play when I was 10 where I played a cold germ infecting a whole classroom of kids. The play was called 'Piffle It's Only a Sniffle.' I'd never had so much fun. It was a thrill.
Kim Cattrall
School
Cold
Kids
Thrill
Classroom
Only
Never
Had
School Play
Germ
Did
So Much Fun
Where
Much
Fun
Whole
Play
Played
It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial.
Michael Moritz
Technology
Business
Physics
School
Unfair
Broad
Out
Brush
Idea
Come
Obviously
Lecture
Math
Germ
Laboratory
Curriculum
Breakthrough
Business School
Paint
Here
The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research.
Roger Wicker
Science
People
Money
Destruction
Research
Bone
Spend
Sector
Must
Marrow
Embryos
Adult
Proven
Go
Private
Questionable
Blood
Private Sector
Germ
Cell
Cell Research
Ethically
Forward
Challenged
Cord
Bone Marrow
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
Victor Hugo
Drama
State
Complete
High
Only
Both
Poetry
Contain
Development
Contains
Ode
Germ
Them
Epic
The difference between brown and white rice is that the former is not milled. With the outer bran and germ intact, the rice is therefore chewier and nuttier.
Yotam Ottolenghi
White
Outer
Brown
Between
Intact
Germ
Difference
Former
Rice
Therefore
Replacing white flour with whole wheat generally makes baked goods denser, drier, and more crumbly because the germ and bran in whole wheat absorbs more water.
Claire Saffitz
Water
White
More
Generally
Absorb
Goods
Baked
Because
Makes
Germ
Replacing
Wheat
Whole
Flour
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