Top 162 Synthetic Quotes & Sayings

jukeboxes, radio and television, going from dawn to dusk, help spread the poison of synthetic, artificial, rhythmical noise.

I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.

Manufactured--synthetic--even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be--I would love you.

All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me designs synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats.

Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.

There is surprisingly low penetration still of synthetic rubber gloves in the medical field. People are allergic to natural rubber, but the industry has been slow to switch to synthetic gloves.

Me personally, I have a small circle. Part of that is because sometimes, you meet people, and you can feel the synthetic energy.

Sandy Hook is a synthetic, completely fake, with actors - in my view, manufactured.

I'm very interested in making the photographs look real, but a lot of them are highly synthetic. They're hybrids, located somewhere between the found and the constructed.

True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.

Startups are now creating specialized 3-D printers capable of producing everything from synthetic hamburgers to multi-story apartment buildings.

I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic.

There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? - he had better quit.

That's the beauty of our show. Comedy or politics. We're sort of a mix. A space age polymer of both. A synthetic comedy-like material.

In my view, we ought to replace the notion of analytic philosophy by that of synthetic philosophy.

The potential for synthetic biology and biotechnology is vast; we all have an opportunity to create the future together.

I used to practice at the hockey ground on synthetic surface while I was in the sports hostel, so Test cricket is certainly going to be a challenge for me.

The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005, and it's likely to continue.

Going to a movie so you won't be offended is like eating potato chips made with Olestra; you avoid the dangers of the real thing, but your insides fill up with synthetic runny stuff.

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

On movies like Star Trek and Star Wars, you have so much that will be created or extended digitally, and it's a slippery slope where you can get lost in a world of synthetic.

I feel like truth resonates, and you can taste when something is synthetic.

I view all art as an effort to translate brain concepts into a work. These brain concepts are synthetic ones - the result of many experiences. But a single work of art, or even a series of works, more often than not cannot translate these synthetic concepts adequately. Yves Saint Laurent once said that he suffered greatly when creating. He is not alone in that. Most artists do the same and say as much.

In chemicals, Synthetic Genomics is one of my real loves.

Synthetic biology can help address key challenges facing the planet and its population. Research in synthetic biology may lead to new things such as programmed cells that self-assemble at the sites of disease to repair damage.

I know that I have in my make-up layers of synthetic experiences, and that the most powerful of my memories are only half true.

In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.

The structural difference between enantiomers can be serious with respect to the actions of synthetic drugs.

Textile manufacturers use complicated chemical and industrial processes to make clothing materials, from cotton to synthetic fibers. And while the environmental consequences aren't always clear, consumption is growing.

I like real instruments, and try to stay from anything that sounds too synthetic.

There should ideally be a synthetic track in every district. Athletics is tough, and needs more support.

There's no point in us designing synthetic laboratories that could just as well be in Dusseldorf or Helsinki. San Francisco has its light, which must be used.

Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.

I had to travel long distances to train on a synthetic track, which added to residual fatigue.

I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.

Children and other Americans with limited or non-existent credit histories are particularly vulnerable to having the SSNs misused for synthetic identities.

There is nothing odder than to apply an analytical device to a synthetic phenomenon: for instance, to write in English about a Russian poet.

The hardest thing to do with an animated movie is to not make it feel synthetic: to feel like it's handmade, where you can sense the human hand in it.

Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.

New data suggests contamination in rivers and streams, as well as on land, is increasingly common, with most of the pollution in the form of microscopic pieces of synthetic fibers, largely from clothing.

Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.

Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience, the empiricist posits the forms of being as constant.

I am very pleased with my synthetic golf green from Southwest Greens. It reacts like a championship golf green, so I can practice my short game whenever I'm at home. I couldn't believe that a synthetic green could be this perfect.

The effort to eliminate synthetic pesticides because of unsubstantiated fears about residues in food will make fruits and vegetables more expensive, decrease consumption, and thus increase cancer rates. The levels of synthetic pesticide residues are trivial in comparison to natural chemicals, and thus their potential for cancer causation is extremely low. [Ames believes that "to eat your veggies" is the best way to prevent cancer.]

I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Finding a store that sells synthetic hair in Kigali is easier than locating a Starbucks in New York City without Google Maps.

Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.

Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.

Nightlife is, to me, a little synthetic, a little desperate?

I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.

New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.

All of those 10cc 'Not in Love'-type synthetic choir sounds on 'Replica' are all from the Omnisphere. We used a lot of that.

Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

This... is a synthetic world many of us live in today - a dream, if you will.

Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.