Famous quotes containing the words coupled and/or receptor:
“Naïveté in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put to rest its receptor organs and allowed them to suffer the true beginnings of atrophy.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)