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  • The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of people, transactions, and businesses. -- Charles Platt
  • We actually have 10 times as many cells of microbes on us as we have human cells... We are literally a teeming ecosystem of microorganisms. -- Jonathan Eisen
  • As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface. -- Robert Falcon Scott
  • Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.' -- Joshua Foer
  • With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write. -- Alanis Morissette
  • The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id. -- Charlie Pierce
  • Whitley Bay was my first experience of the seaside. I'd buy my bucket and spade, and beach ball, and all the shops were teeming with toys. I used to spend hours on the shuggy boats. -- Cherie Lunghi
  • As a kid growing up in a small town in Washington State, my only exposure to New York City was through movies. The town with its towering skyscrapers, fascinating people and teeming energy absolutely captivated me. -- Robert Osborne
  • If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming with it, for it would be inconceivable that life started twice here but never on all the other earth-like planets. -- Paul Davies
  • Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. -- Lord Acton
  • Above all, Danny Boyle's 'Slumdog Millionaire' is the work of an artist at the peak of his powers. India is his palette, and Mumbai - that teeming 'maximum city', with 19 million strivers on the make, jostling, scheming, struggling and killing for success - is his brush. -- Shashi Tharoor
  • My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity. -- Jacob Epstein
  • Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately. -- Edward Weston
  • There are some days when history is made. Yesterday was one - and I was honoured to be in Washington to watch Barack Obama being sworn in. During his soaring inaugural address, the new president gazed over a teeming National Mall that was crowded with more than a million people. -- Des Browne
  • This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not only clean air and a steady climate, but also an abundance of meadows and woodlands, rivers and oceans, teeming with life and the mass existence of other living creatures. -- John Burnside
  • The London I entered was a great bustling metropolitan city at war, an imperial power fighting to hold on to that empire. And the teeming colonial subjects of that empire did not, on the whole, want England to lose that war, but they also did not want the empire to emerge unchanged from it. This, for very many of us, was the hard dilemma. -- Peter Abrahams
  • The world is teeming; anything can happen. -- John Cage
  • Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations. -- Walt Whitman
  • Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride. -- Alexander Pope
  • Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade. -- Aaron Hill
  • Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe. -- Stefan Zweig
  • Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger. -- Mary Pipher
  • What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
  • This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto. -- Jacob Lawrence
  • Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit. -- Friedrich Schiller
  • Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. -- William Blake
  • perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque. -- Salman Rushdie
  • The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease. -- William Shakespeare
  • The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity. -- Ruth Ozeki
  • I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell The coming of storms. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation. -- Richard Benjamin
  • Quantum physics has found that there is no empty space in the human cell, but it is a teeming, electric-magnet ic field of possibility or potential -- Deepak Chopra
  • This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, . . . This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land. -- William Shakespeare
  • All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children. -- John Green
  • We leave Pippa behind, standing in the dark, teeming bowels of the camp, while the sun begins to stain the sky electric, and from all sides the guns draw closer. -- Lauren Oliver
  • A struggle for existence is not a decent living. A man or woman or child may die of starvation in a city teeming with plenty. Only human life is concerned. -- Susette La Flesche
  • The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls. -- Terence McKenna
  • Modern cyberspace is a deadly festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as 'viruses,' 'worms,' 'Trojan horses' and 'licensed Microsoft software' that can take over your computer and render it useless. -- Dave Barry
  • Creation is the vocal chords of God speaking each day through the colors of the sunrise, the vastness of the night sky,the teeming of life in the ocean, the majesty of the mountains. -- Eric Samuel Timm
  • Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door. -- Emma Lazarus
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