Animalstories Quote by Sara Pascoe

“If the idea doesn’t drive us crazy and make us restless, it basically belongs to that cluster of ideas that keeps hovering in our…

— Dr Prem Jagyasi

“A strange idea was pecking at his brain like a chicken in the egg, and very, very much absorbed him.”

— Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

“Sometimes the most effective idea was just so simple that nobody could slow down their brain enough to think it up.”

— R. Curtis Venture

“He didn't believe animals could think, not in the way he defined the term, but he wasn't much impressed with human thinking, either. He…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“He thought of Darwin sleeping out on the pampas during his Beagle trip, a middle-class white kid travelling the world, the first of the…

— Nino Ricci

“Can’t you see? It’s incredibly interesting. Aren’t you struck by how much action occurred simply because something went wrong with one man’s brain? It’s…

— Jon Ronson

“In the past, my brain babbling at such length had meant there was something it either didn't want to think about--which things numbered in…

— C.E. Murphy

“Why have I not genius to start some new thought? Some thing that will surprise the world?”

— John Adams

“It was a rare brain that could feel strongly about anything, if it wasn't close in space, close in time, near at hand, within…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“The idea was a splinter in my mind. Always there, always stinging,even when I wasn't conscious of it. Even when I wasn't thinking about…

— Michelle Hodkin

“How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and…

— Virginia Woolf

“I liked how our minds seemed to travel in parallel, how we instantly inferred what words the other was toying with but at the…

— André Aciman