Receptor Activity

Famous quotes containing the words receptor and/or activity:

    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)

    A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffling activity of the body, are strong indications of futility.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)