Conexiones Sinapticas Quotes & Sayings

They were alike, and yet they were totally opposite
in the way they viewed the world. He viewed it as it was. It
was a dark place, always holding itself into the shadows.
She saw the beauty that no one else could ever have seen in
the darkness. It was to be said that she both saved and
destroyed him. She was the essence of him and yet she,
beautiful sad eyed angel that she was, was also his
destruction all at the same time. He could be a downright
wretch of a man, yet she took it into herself, and never said
a word, but to love him. It was the love that broke him. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

The Australian film industry has recognised Tropfest as a place to nurture young talent. It's a stepping stone between amateur and professional. — John Polson

Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn. — Nicholas Negroponte

Rosie: What the hell was that silence?
Steph: It sounds like something I'd like. It sounded nice.
Rosie: It was. — Cecelia Ahern

Septimus was suddenly horribly afraid that the Antidote would not work. He glanced nervously at Marcia, who whispered, "It will work, Septimus. You must believe in it."
Physik isn't like Magyk," said Septimus unhappily. "It doesn't matter whether you expect it to work or not. Either it does or it doesn't."
"I doubt that very much," said Marcia. "A little belief in something always helps. — Angie Sage

I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence. — Evelyn Waugh

In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

To a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us — Max Frisch

The skin is a true symbol of our health because it's the last place to get nutrition and if you can drive all those nutrients all the way through to the skin then you know it's gotten everywhere else too and that's something that we all recognise. — David Wolfe

If it works, it will be plenty dramatic. And I suppose that if it doesn't work, it will be even more dramatic, what with the blast."
"David, I think you just made a joke."
He frowned, utterly perplexed. "Did I? — Leigh Bardugo

In novels, women run off with their lovers. In real life, women stay. — Kim Wright

My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch. — Julie Delpy

I was born in Sarnia, Ontario; a small town, it's where oil was pretty much discovered in North America. — Chris Hadfield

innocent." Stupid, stupid woman, but a woman whose daughter was lost in the — Douglas Coupland

An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader. — Darrell Case