Brainier Quotes & Sayings

We know by intuition and study that great books approach a condition both above and below human - what Lesser means by "grandeur and intimacy" - and our job is to place ourselves somewhere on the continuum between those shifting poles, to welcome a gravid agitation or be willing to undergo some form of personal torsion; to have our personhood both threatened and amplified. — William Giraldi

Work is a great thing. This is something my father taught me. He didn't want me to grow up to be somebody's wife. — Giovanna Cau

Women apparently are quite drawn to men who have differences rather than similarities in their histocompatibility system. They pick it up by smell, and they can pick it up from kissing. — Helen Fisher

In transition I think the spirit goes somewhere, but I don't think it leaves. — Valerie Simpson

I speak a little Spanish, so I'm able to communicate. — Marcus Camby

we can proceed without knowing or expectation — Mariah McKenzie

I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people. — Paloma Faith

As long as society tells men to be the salespersons of sex, it is sexist for society to put only men in jail if they sell well. We don't put other salespersons in jail for buying clients drinks and successfully transforming a "no" into a "maybe" into a "yes." If the client makes a choice to drink too much and the "yes" turns out to be a bad decision, it is the client who gets fired, not the salesperson. — Warren Farrell

Stephen Hawking: Brainier than Kurt Cobain's garage wall. — Frankie Boyle

Why is it that with women, some kink, some vulnerability of the sex, is always presumed to lie at the heart of things- as if they have no other life, no relevance as important as that which they have for us men? — Anna Funder

When a man denies the power of women, he is denying his own subconscious. — Amrita Pritam

selected to 'IGN START'. — Gib Vogel

People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge. — Laozi