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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle. -- Karl Pilkington
Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct. -- Jeffrey Kluger
[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful. -- Karl Pilkington
Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish. -- Charlie Chaplin
I'd like to be a jellyfish, 'cause jellyfish don't pay rent. -- Jimmy Buffett
I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins. -- Peter Benchley
We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest. -- May Sarton
Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish. -- Gene Tierney
A person without conviction is a weak, jellyfish type of individual who mindlessly follows the crowd. -- Rick Warren
When you move like a jellyfish, rhythm is nothing. You go with the flow. You don't stop. -- Jack Johnson
I think lifes a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tides just gently helping you along. -- Andrew Buchan
The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying on sand. -- Margaret Atwood
Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances of themselves. -- Lyndon LaRouche
People laugh when I say that I think a jellyfish is one of the most beautiful things in the world. What they don't understand is, I mean a jellyfish with long, blond hair. -- Jack Handey
When you move like a jellyfish rhyth don't mean nothing. You go with the flow, you don't stop. Move like a jellyfish, rhythm means nothing.You go with the flow you don't stop. -- Jack Johnson
How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding. -- Andrew Sean Greer
A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was. -- Jeffrey Kluger
We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish...The questioning mind is absolutely necessary. -- Chogyam Trungpa
Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't undervalue the investigation of commonalities but can't avoid the conclusion that diversity has been relatively neglected, especially as concerns the brain. -- Theodore Holmes Bullock
What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things. -- Haruki Murakami
What better way to learn about life in the ocean--and how we are changing it--than through stories of blind zombie worms, immortal jellyfish, and unicorns of the sea? The Extreme Life of the Sea is an insightful book that inspires awe and wonder about our ocean, and brilliantly shows us the immense possibilities of life on Earth. -- Enric Sala
In the creative process, my ego has always been a huge tyrant ... a dictator and kind of rude and very misleading, because sometimes when I'm doing something, I say, "This is great! This is fantastic! Very genius!" And 20 minutes later, I feel like a dead jellyfish. "You are a stupid a**hole. This is a piece of sh*t. Nobody will care about it." -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Today I saw cancer, cigarettes, and shortness of breath. This is why I walk to the ocean. Swim with sharks and jellyfish. I may never get this chance again. This is why if you want to kiss, you should kiss. If you want to cry, you should cry. And if you want to live, you should live. You don't have to love me. You already did. -- Ryan Ross
Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence of a jellyfish, but I was also horrible to behold. There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke. -- Jean-Dominique Bauby
Who's going to rob us? A crackhead crab? A jellyfish junkie? -- Kathy Reichs
Without fake tan I have the skin tones of a dead jellyfish. -- Jenny Eclair
South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish. -- P. W. Botha
Truth on our level is a different thing from truth for the jellyfish. -- T. S. Eliot
If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew. -- Daniel Pauly
Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish. -- Bill Bailey
The U.S. was the immigration country of choice even for alien jellyfish things that turned humans into scary monsters. It made you proud, really. -- Gini Koch
A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don't worry about them. I'll just swim right through them. -- Diana Nyad
I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along. -- Andrew Buchan
The box jellyfish takes you into an area of what I'd call science fiction. You feel like you've been dipped in hot burning oil. You burst into flames. -- Diana Nyad
The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is why they have returned as them now. -- Martin Samuel
I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage. -- Molly Harper
SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish. -- Vince Gilligan
I spent my first 4 years living in the tiny town of Snug, by the sea near Hobart. Curious about animals, I would pick up ants in our backyard and jellyfish on the beach. -- Elizabeth Blackburn
The jellyfish doesn't actively move anywhere - it's just moved with the tides. Is that what man is? Man's just the jellyfish: stuff happens to you, and you get twisted in different directions. -- Andrew Buchan

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