Algernon Dandy Quotes & Sayings

It is much easier to concentrate the mind on external things, than to concentrate on the mind itself. For example, a Neuroscientist can be the smartest man (or woman) on earth in his understanding of the human mind. He may know all the neurochemical changes underlying an outrageous behavior of a person. But when he gets mad himself, very little of his own scientific intellect would actually come in handy for him to control his rage. The virtue of self-control is a skill, which requires practice, regardless of all the neurobiological expertise in the world. — Abhijit Naskar

Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand. — Ilka Chase

In person, I wear jeans and flip-flops, and people are so shocked. They tell me I look so much younger than they expected. — Christina Hendricks

All the fears and doubts surrounding her grief and regrets were swept up into the tempest of the music, poising here in the centre of the moment, a clear vessel of joy. — Alison Croggon

French people are strange about America, I think. — Michel Hazanavicius

You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes. — John Hoeven

In the dim light of Twinkle's glow, their skin colors lost in a common gray, they seemed alike, brethren come from the same mold. Entreri approved of that perception, but Drizzt surely did not. — R.A. Salvatore

Places remained and time flowed through them like wind through the grass. Right now. This was the future turning into the past. One thing becoming another. Like a flame on the end of a match. Wood turning into smoke. If only we could burn brighter. A barn roaring in the night. — Mark Haddon