reading has as many functions as the human body, and…

“Yet there was always in me, even when I was very small, the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. And wander I…

— Anna Quindlen

Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to…

— Anna Quindlen

I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art…

— Simon Pegg

I feel like I became a cerebral athlete. I studied other people and tried to emulate them.

— Nelson Agholor

My comedy is for adults, but you can have your kids listen to it. They won't get all the jokes because hopefully I'm more…

— Henry Cho

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate…

— Bill Lee

You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word…

— Susan Cain

About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read…

— Lev Grossman

When I ask people what they think of when they hear the term 'cerebral palsy,' I usually get one of two responses. They either…

— Maysoon Zayid

I'm not cerebral in any way. Education, for me, was a nightmare. You put someone talking in front of me, and I cannot engage…

— Jodie Whittaker

I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won

— Robert M. Hensel

I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that…

— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the CIA has…

— Charles Cumming

No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts…

— Herbert Spencer

It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts,…

— Charles Darwin