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  • Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.

    Simple   Yeast   Reason  
  • There is a very common, though also very silly, picture of Kant according to which as empirical beings we are not free at all, and we are free only as noumenal jellyfish floating about in an intelligible sea above the heavens, outside any context in which our supposedly "free" choices could have any conceivable human meaning or significance. Part of the problem here is that Kant faces up honestly to the fact that how freedom is possible is a deep philosophical problem to which there is no solution we can rationally comprehend.

    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • What better way to learn about life in the ocean--and how we are changing it--than through stories of blind zombie worms, immortal jellyfish, and unicorns of the sea? The Extreme Life of the Sea is an insightful book that inspires awe and wonder about our ocean, and brilliantly shows us the immense possibilities of life on Earth.

    Ocean   Book   Sea  
  • We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

    May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.136, Open Road Media
  • Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

    "Fictional character: Calvero". "Limelight", www.imdb.com. October 16, 1952.
  • The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is why they have returned as them now.

  • Without fake tan I have the skin tones of a dead jellyfish.

    Skin Tone   Fake   Skins  
  • When you move like a jellyfish rhyth don't mean nothing. You go with the flow, you don't stop. Move like a jellyfish, rhythm means nothing.You go with the flow you don't stop.

    Moving   Mean   Flow  
  • When you move like a jellyfish, rhythm is nothing. You go with the flow. You don't stop.

    Moving   Flow   Jellyfish  
    Song: Bubble Toes, Album: Brushfire Fairytales
  • It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying on sand.

    Water   Body   Sand  
    Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish... The trouble is you won't fight. You've given in, continually dwelling on sickness and death. But there's something just as inevitable as death, and that's life. Life, life, life. Think of all the power that's in the universe, moving the earth, growing the trees. That's the same power within you if you only have courage and the will to use it.

    "Fictional character: Calvero". "Limelight", www.imdb.com. October 16, 1952.
  • A person without conviction is a weak, jellyfish type of individual who mindlessly follows the crowd.

  • There is a period in one's life - perhaps not longer than six months - when one lives in two worlds at once ... It is the time when one has freshly learned to read. The Word, till then a denominating aspect of the Thing, has suddenly become detached from it and is perceived as a glittering entity, transparent and unseizable as a jellyfish, yet able to create an independent world that is both more recondite and more instantaneously convincing than the world one knew before.

  • [Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.

    Funny   Ocean   Giving  
  • I thought beforehand, if [Marie] Henein is going to be a shark, I'm going to be a jellyfish, because you can't catch a jellyfish. Not that I didn't want to be caught, I just wanted to present solid.

    Sharks   Want   Caught  
    Source: int-www.macleans.ca
  • If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.

    Ocean   Sea   Stew  
  • Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

    Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden
  • Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances of themselves.

    "Ex-Aide: LaRouche Extravagant". Chicago Tribune, December 2, 1988.
  • The U.S. was the immigration country of choice even for alien jellyfish things that turned humans into scary monsters. It made you proud, really.

    Country   Scary   Choices  
    Gini Koch (2011). “Alien in the Family”, p.17, Penguin
  • A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don't worry about them. I'll just swim right through them.

  • I'd like to be a jellyfish, 'cause jellyfish don't pay rent.

    Animal   Pay   Causes  
  • Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish.

    Men   Birth   Appearance  
    Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.58, Bantam
  • What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things.

    Real   Thinking   World  
    FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 10, 2015
  • A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.

    Design   Bells   Littles  
  • I'd really like to go with you, Agachak. Truly I would...but I just can't." "I don't understand. Why not?" "I'm not allowed to leave home. My mother'd punish me something awful if I did..." "But you're the king." "That doesn't change a thing. I still do what mother says. She tells everybody that I'm the best boy ever when it comes to that." Agachak resisted a powerful urge to change this half-wit into a toad or perhaps a jellyfish.

    Mother   Kings   Powerful  
  • Who's going to rob us? A crackhead crab? A jellyfish junkie?

    Kathy Reichs (2010). “Virals”, p.18, Penguin
  • Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.

    Funny   Humor   Swans  
    "Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra". Comedy, Music, May 9, 2009.
  • Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence of a jellyfish, but I was also horrible to behold. There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.

    Laughter   Fate   Blow  
    Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.25, Knopf Group E-Books
  • Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't undervalue the investigation of commonalities but can't avoid the conclusion that diversity has been relatively neglected, especially as concerns the brain.

    Nature   Science   Two  
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