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Tag Name "Phosphorus" (7)

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Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.
Mark Twain
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
Stendhal
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The light of friendship is like light of phosphorus, seen plainest when all around is dark.
Isaiah Crowell
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Ohne Phosphor, Kein Gedanke. Without phosphorus there would be no thoughts.
Ludwig Buchner
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Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.
Roland Barthes
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In a museum in London there is an exhibit called The Value of Man: a long coffinlike box with lots of compartments where they've put starch phosphorus flour bottles of water and alcohol and big pieces of gelatin. I am a man like that.
Stephane Mallarme
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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
Andre Gide