The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Yoshihiro Togashi here. I'm back doing a weekly serial, and here I am publishing my first volume already. Thanks to all my… — Yoshihiro Togashi Copy Share Image
I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Currently, the United States has troops in dozens of countries and is actively fighting in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen (with the… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame — from a national media machine that rewards… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The survey of more than 100 waterways downstream from treatment plants and animal feedlots in 30 states found minute amounts of dozens… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight.… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not… — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I've had over a dozen models come in and pose fro me live for these new Cirque pieces. Cirque is a world-wide… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
A mockingbird has moved into our neighborhood. It perches atop a telephone pole behind our backyard. Every morning it is the first… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I'm lucky to live in New York, a city that offers so many options for lunch. I can pick up dumplings from… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Is the raggle-taggle Brangelina tribe any more bogus than that of the landlocked yummy mummy who believes that she can drop half… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
If our government won't spend the money to protect New Orleans sufficiently today, what are the chances we will spend the money… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Why can't I go to Idris with you, then? Because it's not safe for you there O and it's safe for me… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
If doubtful whether to end with "yours faithfully," or "yours truly," or "yours most truly," &c. (there are at least a dozen… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
...The ACS raised over $180 million last year through its network of 58 Divisions and 3,000 local Chapters. The Society's major public… — Michael F. Jacobson Copy Share Image
I've worked over four dozen nine-to-five jobs before taking the chance to chase my dream of wanting to become an actor and… — Malcolm Goodwin Copy Share Image
The California I knew, old rancho California, is gone. It just doesn't exist, except maybe in little pockets. I lived on the… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Clever derivatives broke dozens of companies. It killed them. Bankrupt. We don't need these kinds of innovation in finance. It's OK to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“There was hysteria in there, certainly, but there was also the exhaustion of someone who had managed, somehow, to believe several dozen… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
... to me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Leo felt trapped. He’d once been stuck in a cave on top of Pikes Peak, surrounded by a pack of werewolves. Another… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I grew up in a single-wide, three-bedroom mobile home with my family. And now I see them, like, half a dozen times… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.'… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
