Ferment Quotes

The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction. - Ivan Pavlov

The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory. - James Tobin

The country is in an extraordinary ferment. - William Hamilton Maxwell

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly. - George Stigler

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass. - Rebecca Harding Davis

PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God. - Ambrose Bierce

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset