I function as an asterisk in the limbic system.

“p 16 ...although our limbic system [eg. attention, fear, rage…] functions throughout our lifetime, it does not mature. As a result, when our emotional…

— Jill Bolte Taylor

Numbersign questionmark you" and "Asterisk exclamation point the world.

— Daniel Handler

We'll put an asterisk next to Barry Bonds' name, sure, as soon as we put one next to Babe Ruth's name. Getting to break…

— Daniel Tosh

“Fear and Love are the two emotional pillars of survival.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Unlike most other language — which is stored in cerebral cortex, the brain’s center for higher learning — curse words are stored in the limbic system, our most…

— Chelsea G. Summers

“Smell is the only faculty that accesses the limbic instantly. All other stimuli take longer to register, hence, the importance of odors.”

— P.M.H. Atwater

New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid…

— Robert E. Ornstein

Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all…

— Jonathan Nolan

“When we are in the grip of craving or fury, head-over-heals in love our recoiling in dread, it is the limbic system that has…

— Daniel Goleman

The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years.

— Robin Marantz Henig

“What they find is that there are anomalies in the way these individuals process material that has emotional implications. That there’s this dissociation between…

— Jon Ronson

“THE AMYGDALAfn8 IS the archetypal limbic structure, sitting under the cortex in the temporal lobe. It is central to mediating aggression, along with other…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Limbic consonance is the little-known process through which the mood of a room changes when a happy or nervous person walks in.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

“My limbic system has grown accustomed to a certain (very low) level of human (female) contact. With her standing right next to me, her…

— Robin Sloan

I have sympathy for any human being that's driven by their limbic part of their brain. We all know that exists in a person.

— Dennis Miller