I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being…

“I can't fight. I was once run over by a car with a flat tire, being pushed by two guys.”

— Woody Allen

There are drawbacks in being famous too, but you can live with those. They're not life-threatening. If the paparazzi are outside your restaurant or…

— Woody Allen

I tried playing electric for awhile and it just didn't work out. My reflexes are centered on the six string acoustic. I just played…

— Tom Rush

Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of…

— Guy Davenport

If I were asked to name one aspect of tennis that is the biggest weakness of players of all levels, I would probably say…

— Ken Rosewall

There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is…

— Jim Butcher

Judging other people is such a natural and reflex phenomenon that even when somebody advises everybody not to judge anybody, actually he never realised…

— Anonymous

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing…

— Ernie Harwell

It seems to me that you are solving a problem which goes beyond the limits of physiology in too simple a way. Physiology has…

— Alexander Herzen

If we denote excitation as an end-effect by the sign plus (+), and inhibition as end-effect by the sign minus (-), such a reflex…

— Charles Scott Sherrington

To identify yourself with your personality is more or less a reflex. You must see, when the reflex comes up, that it is a…

— Jean Klein

Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.

— Joseph Pilates

A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.

— Alfred de Musset

The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is…

— Horace Mann

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather…

— James Surowiecki