Badmouths Library Quotes & Sayings

The seduction of safety is always more dangerous than the illusion of uncertainty. — Robin Sharma

We call them feelings because we feel them. They don't start in our minds, they arise in our bodies, — Karen Joy Fowler

As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks — Clive James

Bruges was his dead wife. And his dead wife was Bruges. The two were untied in a like destiny. It was Bruges-la-Morte, the dead town entombed in its stone quais, with the arteries of its canals cold once the great pulse of the sea had ceased beating in them. — Georges Rodenbach

In every aspect of society, including business and anywhere that creativity can be used, we can be - or we used to be, anyway - the most innovative country, because we weren't restricted by artificial limitations. We are made to be wild, free, and creative, and this clearly was a symbol of that kind of energy in America. — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Digestion is quickly shut down during stress ... The parasympathetic nervous system, perfect for all that calm, vegetative physiology, normally mediates the actions of digestion. Along comes stress: turn off parasympathetic, turn on the sympathetic, and forget about digestion. — Robert M. Sapolsky