Quotes About Fluid

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

A little tap on the window-pane, as though something had struck it, followed by a plentiful light falling sound, as of grains of sand being sprinkled from a window overhead, gradually spreading, intensifying, acquiring a regular rhythm, becoming fluid, sonorous, musical, immeasurable, universal: it was the rain.

deliquesce. 1. To melt away or disappear as if by melting. 2. Chemistry. To dissolve and become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air. 3. Botany. a. To branch out into numerous subdivisions that lack a main axis. b. To become fluid or soft on maturing, as do certain fungi.

fashioned of flowing silk or jersey

What shape is water?' " 'Water doesn't have any shape!' I said, laughing. 'It takes the shape you give

I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender.

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

What is blood but the wine of life?

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

Especially at night she was afraid of waking up and finding him formless in the bed, transformed into excrescences that burst out because of too much fluid, the flesh melted and dripping, and with it everything around, the furniture, the entire apartment and she herself, his wife, broken, sucked into that stream polluted by living matter.

The salty fluid of life... the crystal-clear blood of the earth... That's what it is, Farhad. Tears. - Nitish

Bubbles have more colors than a rainbow.

If ever there was a character that was never defined by gender, it's the Doctor. The Doctor is gender fluid in that sense.

I work pretty fluidly across all genres.

I think critics tend to think that comedy is freakin' math. Like, this is the Pythagorean Theorem. They're not sophisticated enough to know that comedy is fluid, that it evolves, and these organic evolutions are what you have to embrace.

One thing I could tell you is that I'm all over the place.

minds can't be set like clocks.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time.

About 60 percent of the adult human body is fluid, mainly a water solution of ions and other substances. Although most of this fluid is inside the cells and is called intracellular fluid, about one third is in the spaces outside the cells and is called extracellular fluid.

The extracellular fluid contains large amounts of sodium, chloride, and bicarbonate ions plus nutrients for the cells, such as oxygen, glucose, fatty acids, and amino acids. It also contains carbon dioxide that is being transported from the cells to the lungs to be excreted, plus other cellular waste products that are being transported to the kidneys for excretion.

The intracellular fluid differs significantly from the extracellular fluid; for example, it contains large amounts of potassium, magnesium, and phosphate ions instead of the sodium and chloride ions found in the extracellular fluid.

The image that emerges from quantum physics is similar in some ways to the way that the illusion that air, or water is a continuous fluid emerges. Myriad tiny particles separated by tiny gaps feels to you like a smooth fluid. Myriad quantum states separated by tiny gaps feels to you like a smooth flow of time. Zeno was right. The arrow of time points, but it does not move. THE

And when a countryman says the cold freezes water, though the word freezing seems to import some action, yet truly it signifies nothing, but the effect, videlicet that water, that was before fluid, is become hard and consistent, without containing any idea of the action whereby it is done.