Zitat des Tages über Atrophie / Atrophy:
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
Aging is one of the most visual diseases on the planet and includes things that we all know like wrinkles and grey hair, but also brain atrophy, muscle wasting and organ damage.
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.
'Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.
By the time I sat down to write 'Family Pictures,' I hadn't written anything in almost two years, and writing, I have discovered, is a muscle: if it isn't exercised, it will atrophy.
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.