Bounce Bounce Bounce Bounce Bounce Bounce Bounce Bounce Bounce Bounce.
— The Ragtime Gals, “Ignition (Remix)," Jimmy Fallon
Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms – if all solid materials except nematode worms were to be eliminated, you could still see the ghostly outline of most of it in nematode worms.
— E. O. Wilson, “My Wish: Build the Encyclopedia of Life, TED 2007
I could have been born in the body of a sponge.
— Lily
It was worth it just to learn from sleight of hand.
— Pickin’ On Series, Iron Horse, “Float On”
Enjoy yourself by coming alive to these questions.
— Eric Gregory
A less-than-faint awareness.
— Note
Now if our eyes were telescopes, if they were light buckets as big as wagon wheels.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, “Sisters of the Sun,” Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
But I try.
— David Bowie, “Modern Love”
Even I have friends who don’t believe in god.
London: The Modern Babylon
Isn’t it funny how light comes and goes here.
— Ted
On the verge of tears, the girl expressed her concern that she would have hiccups permanently.
— Decidophobe
Idolatry is worship of round things… flat things are not representational enough.
— Martha Himmelfarb
We introduce
ourselves +
To Planets and
to Flowers
But with
ourselves
Have Etiquettes
Embarrassments
And awes
— Emily Dickinson, “A146,” The Gorgeous Nothings
Pay no attention to the woman behind the video projector.
— Keith Sanborn
We take everything it does too personally.
— Lily
The green blade rises.
— “Now the Green Blade Rises”
She was later found dead, floating in the sea.
— Christopher Drew and Jad Mouawad, “Breaking Proud Tradition, Captains Flee and Let Others Go Down With Ship,” The New York Times
I understand you’re a neurosurgeon.
— Dr. Peter Flynn, Rushmore
May I inquire discreetly?
— The Beatles, “Lovely Rita”
It doesn’t make sense to incorporate that unless it really happened.
— AnneMarie Luijendijk