Famous quotes containing the words galvanic, cell and/or potential:
“Come, walk like this, the dancer said,
Stick you your toesstick in your head,
Stalk on with quick, galvanic tread
Your fingers thus extend;
The attitudes considered quaint,”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18361911)
“It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Most days I feel like an acrobat high above a crowd out of which my own parents, my in-laws, potential employers, phantoms of other women who do it and a thousand faceless eyes stare up.”
—Anonymous Mother. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Womens Health Book Collective, ch. 2 (1978)