I think that it's our job to sort of band together and say, 'OK, what are the ways the male gaze has… — Betty Gilpin Copy Share Image
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Cheshvan starts tonight," Rixon said, "What are you doing arsing around in a graveyard?" "Thinking." "Thinking?" "A process by which I use… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
It’s my brain. I know exactly what I have to do, but if I’m not using my brain, I’m not doing the… — Dinara Safina Copy Share Image
I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
My dear, dear girl [. . .] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
When I'm talking about a football brain, the very first time the ball's kicked in the air and Lukaku completely outjump's you… — Steve Nicol Copy Share Image
The left hemisphere is very interested in language; it communicates in words, it has a past, a present, and a future; it… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
A powerful portfolio of physiological and behavioural evidence now exists to support the case that fish feel pain and that this feeling… — John Webster Copy Share Image
As you go out to the 2040s, now the bulk of our thinking is out in the cloud. The biological portion of… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating.… — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
There are some people who believe that dreams really are just kind of a throwaway thing. They are just a way of… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you have got a seven- or eight-year-old heading a solid ball, and his brain and his bone in his skull isn't… — Ryan Mason Copy Share Image
A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental… — Pat Williams Copy Share Image
If I'm feeling down, I'll fake smile. I'm trying to trick my brain into being happy. It might work one out of… — Paul Wall Copy Share Image
The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I want to know where joy lives. I'd interview scientists, religious leaders and heads of state. I'd want to find out exactly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing. — Gyorgy Kepes Copy Share Image
genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Something I owe to the soil that grew-More to the life that fed-But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I didn't listen to half of the criticism I received. I just didn't let it enter my brain. It affects people around… — Alan Pardew Copy Share Image
“We are trying to force the brain to do something that it has not been programed to do. The brain simply believes… — Shad Helmstetter Copy Share Image
A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
The two hemispheres of the brain are two very different places and they don't share any cell bodies. They are completely separate… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
“Look, you can't think of a person like it's one thing, one 'I' that decides everything. The brain is a collective, a… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
I suspect that a lot of the stress we see around us arises from the cognitive dissonance set up by one side… — David Palmer Copy Share Image
The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we train ourselves by constant practice to stop… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
Just because someone signed up for something or takes advice or has managers or works in entertainment or show business with other… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image