Tom Waits

People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the sense that they may easily include a stain on your bedroom wall... and a variety of mis-recollections. And then you name it after a girl's name that you just made up.

American Musician

Henry Ward Beecher

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

American Clergyman

RJ Cyler

This acting is going to leave my stain. Not just my mark, because you can wipe a mark off. But a stain: it's going to take a whole lot to get that out, and that's how I'm going to leave my stain on this world.

American Actor

Luis Suarez

Put 'Luis Suarez' into an Internet search engine, and up comes the word 'racist.' It's a stain that is there for ever. And it is one that I feel I do not deserve.

Uruguayan Athlete

Rasheed Wallace

I have this particular shoe with blood stains, marked all up sitting in my office. I always look at it everyday.

American Basketball Player

Rachel Morrison

It's always a challenge to shoot a period film and not have it look like you hit the tea stain button in post.

American Director

Samuel Beckett

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

Irish Playwright

Kiki Bertens

If someone tests positive for coronavirus, our sport would be stained forever.

Sabrina Carpenter

If you're going to sing on stage, wear lip stain.

Sophocles

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

Greek Poet

The word 'stain' suggests difficulty in cleaning and may need special products or methods.

Persistence of Stains

'Stain' often highlights unwanted accidents or carelessness in handling items.

Negative Emphasis

'Stain' can be metaphorical, suggesting a lasting negative impact on reputation or character.

Metaphorical Use

A 'stain' on reputation usually signifies serious damage that’s hard to undo.

Severity of Damage

When staining something by accident, it often leaves an unintended visible mark.

Visual Imperfection

Using 'stain' as a verb implies creating a problem or extra work, such as cleaning or replacing.

Consequences of Staining

'Stain' implies wrongdoing and can suggest moral consequences or judgments.

Stigma and Morality

In technical use, 'stain' means to intentionally apply color for protection or aesthetics.

Intentional Change

'Stain' in art or carpentry implies enhancement or protecting materials, not damaging them.

Added Value

 So if you take a deeper look at the brain, one of the things, if you look at it in cross-section, what you can see is that you can't really see a whole lot of structure there. But there's actually a lot of structure there. It's cells and it's wires all wired together. So about a hundred years ago, some scientists invented a stain that would stain cells.

Allan Jones: A map of...

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State Trooper Training PIPE...

 take a deeper look at the brain one of the things if you look at it in cross-section what you can see is that you can't really see a whole lot of structure there but there's actually a lot of structure there it's cells and it's wires all wired together so about a hundred years ago some scientists invented its that would stain cells and that shown

A map of the brain -...

 that we had a red carpet in case things went awry and the stains would be not that noticeable I wanted to demo this for you today so that you could take a moment to celebrate whatever it is that happened to you today that new idea that you discovered a new friend that you made something that delighted you or inspired

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 You can see the hazy stuff in the background. That's mud. That's deep-sea ocean mud, and the bright green dots stained with the green fluorescent dye are real, living microbes. Now I've got to tell you something really tragic about microbes. They all look the same under a microscope,

This deep-sea mystery is...

 a third connected maybe with the place where they happen to be, a fourth connected with the place they dream of being, and many more besides. And their whole life will be spent taking pieces of many different places and putting them together into a stained glass whole.

Where Is Home? PIPE Pico...

 once they have divided. And we can observe this. What I'm going to show you next are two in vitro experiments. This is cultures, identical cultures, of cervical cancer cells. And we've stained these cultures with a green florescent dye

Bill Doyle: Treating...

 of the world these guys have a chemical defense they can spray cyanide not enough to injure us but it can chemically stain my hands so I might at the end of this have yellow marks on my hand that won't come off for a while for

If You're Scared of...

 it's made out of butterfly wings. And I was blown away. So, he took me back to his workshop and he showed me how he does these. He collects these butterflies meticulously and makes these stained glass images of life

Chaos in the Heart of...

 wild creatures stained the color of iron and industry