Mindi Scott has a real talent for getting inside her protagonist's head. She sketches out Coley's story in grand swathes, and then… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
Art and writing come from somewhere down around the lizard brain. It's a much more peculiar activity than we like to think… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I want so to live that I work with my hands and my feeling and my brain. I want a garden, a… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
When you are young, you can do anything, everything, and nothing at the same time. You don't have that kind of judgment;… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party represents the American brain, and the Republicans represent not the American heart, or soul, but the American gut. The… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
... fain would I turn back the clock and devote to French or some other language the hours I spent upon algebra,… — Jessie Belle Rittenhouse Copy Share Image
Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Mapenzi, kama ilivyo kwa vitu vyote hapa ulimwenguni, hayawezi kuwepo bila kujumuishwa na fizikia na kemia yake! Bila kemia hakuna mapenzi ya… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
"Nothing is ever lost" means that what we are now goes all the way back through natural history. We are biological organisms… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Babies have not yet chunked anything. They aren't doing any high level thinking. All they're doing is sucking in all the data… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Sometimes I suspect that there are two prototypes of philosophers who write about humans - I call them "celestials" and "terrestrials", without… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
“The inability to get something out of your head is a signal that shouts, “Don’t forget to deal with this!” As long… — Christina Enevoldsen Copy Share Image
“Our metaphors for the operation of the brain are frequently drawn from the production line. We think of the brain as a… — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
Interestingly, the British government announced a few weeks ago that they were going to introduce 500 educational targets for preschool children. And… — David Icke Copy Share Image
As someone who makes his living as an actor, my routine varies almost every day. There are weeks I'm working and weeks… — Eric Lange Copy Share Image
Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile… — Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle Copy Share Image
Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
I always wonder: the images that hit your brain when you're young are so significant, because there's not that much information in… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
With brain hacking experiments, I've hacked into Morgan Freeman's brain. He was the most famous and the most nerve wracking because I… — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
I have more questions than answers in this world as do most poets and writers. The field of memory we exist in… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
The relative importance of the white and gray matter is often misunderstood. Were it not for the manifold connection of the nerve… — Edward Anthony Spitzka Copy Share Image
A musical is really one of the most complicated beasts. It's a play, and there's music... and there's dancing... it's unbelievably satisfying… — David Bryan Copy Share Image
With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while theyre going on, you will find that the parts of the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people,… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“It is hard for us to imagine now, but our earliest human ancestors who ventured out onto the grasslands of East Africa… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Now,I'm no scientist,but I know what endorphins are. They're tiny little magical elves that swim through your blood stream and tell funny… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but thought wanders away... Whereas attention has no control,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“It’s a popular fact that 90 percent of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. .… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A mind can be overthrown by words; that's the point. What is happening to the brain of a person who uses the… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Back in the really early days, the men went out hunting, the women stayed home with the kids, and would hold the… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it. What's worth… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The way my brain works, it created me thirsty. From the off, I was a sponge for information that had emotional connotations,… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
There is no right way to knit; there is no wrong way to knit. So if anybody kindly tells you that what… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
My brain is a big cluster of stuff. It moves quickly and loses focus quickly, so I need many projects to keep… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
Replacing it with a thought. I sometimes think, "What the hell. I have four working limbs right now. I'm winning just to… — Graham Shiels Copy Share Image
