Arteries Quotes

“Maybe she would have done more good as a playwright than as a doctor, after all — clichés were like plaque in the arteries of the imagination, they clogged the sense of what was possible. Maybe if enough people had worked to demolish clichés, the world wouldn't have ended.”
― Charlie Jane Anders

“With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.”
― Ariel Gore, Atlas of the Human Heart

“There was a risk in theorizing. I had witnessed, close up, the fatal, comic effect upon professors and students of hypotheses which had become unconscious convictions. And thus warned, I had thrown overboard, as a reporter facing facts, many of my college-bred notions . . . It was hard to do; ideas harden like arteries; indeed, one theory of mine is that convictions are identical with hardened arteries. But the facts . . . forced me to drop my academic theories one by one; and my reward was the discovery that it was as pleasant to change one’s mind as it was to change one’s clothes. The practice led one to other, more fascinating—theories.”
― Lincoln Steffens

“Orgasm coincides with a general hardening of the arteries.”
― Raymond Pettibon, Raymond Pettibon: Homo Americanus

“The chats flowed about the classroom along well-established arteries. I was an obstacle around which they moved.”
― Colin Walsh, Kala