"Static" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... else. There was something beyond the wheel, something shining on a sort of low pedestal. I walked over; there was a little crystal about the size of an egg, fluorescing to beat Tophet. The light from it stung my hands and face, almost like a static discharge, and then I noticed another funny thing. Remember that wart I had on my left thumb? Look!" Jarvis extended his hand. "It dried up and fell off—just like that! And my abused nose—say, the pain ...
— A Martian Odyssey • Stanley Grauman Weinbaum
... of the natural sciences, we accepted life as static. If, being born in China, we grew up with foot-bound women, we assumed that women were such, and must so remain. Born in India, we accepted the child-wife, the pitiful child-widow, the ecstatic suttee, ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
... stateroom was unmoving, static. There was none of the faint breeze of moving air. Something had gone wrong ...
— Unwise Child • Gordon Randall Garrett
... Nemo replied, "static objects mustn't be confused with dynamic ones, or we'll be open to serious error. Comparatively little effort is spent in reaching the ocean's lower regions, because all objects have a tendency to become 'sinkers.' Follow ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne
... personality is self-preservation, but personality itself is not a static but a dynamic thing. The basic factor in its development, is integration: each new situation calls forth a new adjustment which modifies or alters the personality in the process. The proper aim of personality, therefore, is not permanence ...
— Breaking Point • James E. Gunn
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