Sodium Pump

Famous quotes containing the words sodium and/or pump:

    “Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens—of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “My nurses, those starchy ghosts,
    hover over me for my lame hours
    and my lame days. The mechanics
    of the body pump for their tricks.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)