Austere Crossword Quotes & Sayings

No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power — Stefan Molyneux

The modified Mozart used by Tomatis, Paul, iLs, and others over time in an individualized therapy must be distinguished from claims made in the media in the 1990s that mothers could raise the IQ of their children by having them briefly listen to unfiltered Mozart. This claim was based on a study not of mothers and babies but of college students who listened to Mozart ten minutes a day and improved IQ scores on spatial reasoning tests - an effect that lasted only ten to fifteen minutes! Hype aside, different studies by Gottfried Schlaug, Christo Pantev, Laurel Trainor, Sylvain Moreno, and Glenn Schellenberg have shown that sustained music training, such as learning to play an instrument, can lead to brain change, enhance verbal and math skills, and even modestly increase IQ.] — Norman Doidge

Girls fascinate in different ways. Try 'em one day. Tapped on the pane, and asked in French if she'd save my life by falling in love with me. — David Mitchell

Hi" she whispers. It's just one word but my heart is already racing. — Tahereh Mafi

We now think it hilarious that medieval streets were used as open sewers. Equally, our descendants will say: 'You won't believe this, but people were once allowed to hurl a couple of tons of dangerous metal around smashing into each other.' — Norman Foster

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Linda was just born when I had my first miscarriage, and for a while, six months maybe, the sight of those two babies, whom I had loved and cared for with real interest and satisfaction, affected me like a poison. All my tissues hurt when I saw them, when I saw Rose with them, as if my capillaries were carrying acid into the furthest reaches of my system. I was so jealous, and so freshly jealous every time I saw them, that I could hardly speak, and I wasn't very nice to Rose, since some visceral part of me simply blamed her for having what I wanted, and for having it so easily — Jane Smiley

Among the many definitions of progress, "enemy of trees" and "killer of birds" seem to me the most apt. — Rabih Alameddine

I dyed my hair for photo tests ... I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again? — Ben Affleck

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come. — Maria Weston Chapman

Your saying to me "I do not understand you", is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve. — Kahlil Gibran

In all the co-temporary discussions and comments, which the Constitution underwent, it was constantly justified and recommended on the ground, that the powers not given to the government, were withheld from it. — James Madison

Life is an illusion that last too little. — Annette Curtis Klause

I use singing as a warm-up before big scenes I have to do on set. It's also great to make people less nervous. — Kevin Daniels

One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves chose the ideal over the real in their geometry and demonstrated very well that far more could be achieved by consideration of abstract line and form than by a study of the real lines and forms of the world; the greater understanding achieved through abstraction could be applied most usefully to the very reality that was ignored in the process of gaining knowledge. — Isaac Asimov