Quotes About Permeation

One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.

Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world!

An Anglisc oath is like water. It pours into every part of you, every crevice. You can't hold any piece apart from it.

The cancer I don't have is everywhere now.

The cancer I don't have is everywhere, now.

Let him be fifty feet away, let him not even speak to you, let him not even see you, he permeated, he prevailed, he imposed himself. He changed everything.

It's everywhere, he said. No matter where you go, it grabs you by the collar.

Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.

There isn't only one way that black art or entertainment is represented, and that's the most important thing. We're permeating every style. We're claiming and, when necessary, appropriating all kinds of forms. Nothing is forbidden, because it's not what black people do: because it's not what we think of as black art.

You pervade everything, you, pervade everything.

people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments. They're with us in the grocery store, as we turn a corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles.

Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.

The stupidity of all commercial or cultural anti- Americanism. As if Americanism did not run through every society, every nation, and every individual today, like modernity itself.

Our flesh has never been a boundary for the human being. We only reach out from there to occupy the space around us. Even more significantly, it occupies us.

If something bad smells in the basement, it will eventually make its way to the attic.

Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and wants to be every world you say.

Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and wants to be every word you say.

Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and wants to be every word you say -A

Water does nothing yet it penetrates everything. Inaction finds the road.

I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a remarkable thought - that someone would affect you so deeply they'd always be a part of you.

The gospel transforms culture by permeating it like yeast, and long after the people abandon belief they tend to live by habits of the soul. Once salted and yeasted, society is difficult to un-salt and un-yeast.

In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.

Cold has a thousand ways of moving in the world: on the sea it gallops like a troop of horses, on the countryside it falls like a swarm of locusts, in the cities like a knife-blade it slashes the streets and penetrates the chinks of unheated houses.