Germ Quotations

The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.'

Many a trace, and many a germ of this infantile disease, to which without a doubt, I also am a victim, has been chased away by your brochure, or will yet be eradicated by it.

I did a school play when I was 10 where I played a cold germ infecting a whole classroom of kids. The play was called 'Piffle It's Only a Sniffle.' I'd never had so much fun. It was a thrill.

To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to be. Things cook away in your head when you're bored, and suddenly one day, you have a book or a germ of a book.

If this invisible germ of life in the grain of wheat can thus pass unimpaired through three thousand resurrections, I shall not doubt that my soul has power to clothe itself with a body suited to its new existence when this earthly frame has crumbled into dust.

Most people would say no, but the reality is when you get typecast like that there's got to be some germ of something in there, ... Seinfeld.

Getting sick has at least as much to do with how you come to the germ emotionally as it does with how the germ physically comes to you.

To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ of the first upgrowth of all virtue.

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

In making my strips the inspiration is really only the germ of something, they say it's 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration.

In the immortal germ line of human beings - that is, the eggs that sit in the ovaries - they actually sit there in a state of suspended animation for up to 50 years in the life of each woman.

In the future, what would prevent a booby trapped car causing a nuclear explosion in Washington or a germ or a chemical one?

Evolutionarily, germ cells are one of the most ancient cell types, needed by every type of animal to reproduce. Their developmental program is very similar, whether we are talking fruit flies or humans. As a result, these findings could eventually help us understand and treat defects in germ cell development that lead to human infertility and disease.

Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.

The idea of stopping is not unmeaningful to me. I think there might be a time when, in theory at least, you'd say, 'Well I've mostly done what I want to do.' But how could you ever prevent a few years down the line some germ of an idea getting at you and you've got to do it again?

You can't really help touching the person next to you. No matter how much of a germ freak you are, you're exchanging liquids with people.

And is there a movie, whatever the genre here, that I would like to go see? If I can see the germ of that there, I'll usually take the job.

It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial.

It's a normal germ that gets into an abnormal place,

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement -- discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

To perceive things in the germ is intelligence