Famous quotes containing the words blood flow, reduces, blood and/or flow:
“The poet sings how the blood flows in his veins. He performs his functions, and is so well that he needs such stimulus to sing only as plants put forth leaves and blossoms.... His song is a vital function like breathing, and an integral result like weight.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Yet love enters my blood like an I.V.,
dripping in its little white moments.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)