Source: A Dictionary of New Zealand Political Quotations (2000), p. 96.
“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
“The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”
Variant: Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to
wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Source: The Spectator Bird
“Civilization is a scar tissue from a past of violence and destruction.”
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 31
Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
“Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars.”
Matrim Cauthon
(15 October 1993)
TV interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cReCQE8B5nY after 90-day moratorium (March 1964)
Don't Look Back In Anger
(What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995)
“I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons”
Discussing the result of an experiment where about 1 out of 8000 alpha particles were scattered backwards when fired at a thin sheet of metal foil, which led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus, as quoted in Rutherford and the Nature of the Atom (1964) by E. N. da C. Andrade, p. 111, and in Nobel Laureates in chemistry, 1901-1992 http://books.google.com/books?id=jEy67gEvIuMC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=false by Laylin K. James, p. 57
Context: It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.
"Dreams"
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (1993)
