(63 quotes found)
“Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”
Wallace Stegner
“Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.”
Walter Benjamin
“I probably carry more scar tissue on my derriere than any other candidate- that's political scar tissue.”
Alexander Haig
“I haven't found that term in a medical book yet. It's human tissue. It's his. No kidding.”
Joseph Tacopina
“This virus tends to stick to tissue rather than move through it, so when we inject it into an organ like the brain, for instance, it tends to stay there. To be successful, we need the virus to move and spread through the body. So, we have evolved variants [of the virus] that have less stickiness to tissue.”
David Schaffer
“Patients are there and are paralyzed. The stroke process is going on and patients are losing brain tissue. If they can reverse the stroke within three hours, the chances are much, much higher that that person will have a total recovery. If you miss that three-hour window, it's a sad story.”
Carl Etter
“There is no bone damage, but there is some soft-tissue swelling.”
Brian Kerr
“For example, you have to spit into a tissue or a bag, then place it in a dustbin to complete the process.”
Zhang Huiguang
“Leopards do that sometimes. They eat away the dead tissue if wounded seriously.”
Bool Smuts
“His skin is as thin as tissue paper. He was born without a specific collagen.”
Daphne Mayhew