A Quote by Patricia A. McKillip

Research the imagination. It was as obsolete as the appendix in most adults, except for those in whom, like the appendix, it became inflamed for no reason.

Patricia A. McKillip

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Patricia A. McKillip
American - Author
Born: February 29, 1948

Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance. Does he know he ought to have an appendix? He is just born with it....Our unconscious mind, like our body, is a storehouse of relics and memories of the past. A study of the structure of the unconscious collective mind would reveal the same discoveries as you make in comparative anatomy. We do not need to think that there is anything mystical about it.

Carl Jung

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

Tommy Douglas

We humans have many vestigial features proving that we evolved. The most famous is the appendix.

Jerry A. Coyne

Remarrying a husband you've divorced is like having your appendix put back in.

Phyllis Diller

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Robert Burton

When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

Richard Dawkins

A man's life is an appendix to his heart.

Robert South

I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm sure we're going to find out one day that the brain is as worthless as the appendix.

Scott McClanahan

I did die once, for seven seconds, after a burst appendix.

Jeremy Kyle

There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.

Georges Clemenceau

*Appendix usually means "small outgrowth from large intestine," but in this case it means "additional information accompanying main text." Or are those really the same things? Think carefully before you insult this book.