Denervated And Innervated Quotes & Sayings

I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy. — Sam Brownback

As for my slowness as a writer - that's been a struggle, no question. We live in a culture that values and rewards machine-speed productivity. Even the arts are expected to conform to the Taylor model of productivity. — Junot Diaz

The Lush hadn't driven in almost a decade - ever since she got in an accident that shook her so badly she refused to get behind the wheel. As you can imagine, someone nicknamed The Lush wouldn't make a good DD anyway. I'd known her about a year before ever seeing her sober. — Kate Madison

I wanted to explain myself to myself in an understandable way. I gave shape to my fears and made excuses. I varied my velocities, watched myselves sleep. Something's not right about what I'm doing but I'm still doing it-- living in the worst parts, ruining myself. My inner life is a sheet of black glass. If I fell through the floor I would keep falling.
The enormity of my desire disgusts me. — Richard Siken

I grow more intense as I age — Florida Scott-Maxwell

He was a fool.
Claire Montoya was convinced she didn't need anyone. That her way was the only way.
He kept walking.
Because only a fool would want a woman who would never let him in. He could touch her skin, touch her body, but she'd never trust him enough to let him touch her heart. Not the way he wanted. And he couldn't do that. Not with her. Her terms were unacceptable, her barriers too high. — Jessica Scott

The reason I said earlier that the mind is neither the Cartesian, highly intellectualized, cranium-confined firm-and-frozen ego, nor the self-effaced, world-immersed, flowing, field-like non-thingy occurrence, is that even though I was feeling my limbs to be alien to myself, that did not mean that I felt them to be disconnected. Rather, they were intimately connected, yet, merely connected to me, and not phenomenologically proper parts of myself. The mind-world boundary seems to have moved from the skin/environment junction to the innervated/denervated junction within the body. So part of the body has become external to the mind, or 'de-minded'. — Istvan Aranyosi

I didn't watch the Emmys because - well, for one, I have been to awards shows, and I understand how it works. For another, sour grapes. Actually, that's probably number one. — Kurt Fuller

Can we avoid people? How is that possible? And if we associate with them, can we change them? Who gives us that power? — Epictetus

When people come up to me and say, 'Oh my God - you're that character,' I feel like replying, 'No, I'm just like you; it's just a job.' — Antonia Thomas

Why are you looking at me? His eyes search mine for several long seconds before he holds contact and whispers, Because I like your face. — Mia Sheridan

From the age of 4 or 5, I loved to make people laugh. — David Walton

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness — Robert Southey

So let me get this straight."I rub my nose."You've brought me out to hunt and kill animals with my bare hands?"A smile ghosts his face. He scratches his cheek. "Well teeth, but basically, yes."Oh God. This is his idea of going out? No wonder he hasn't got a girlfriend. — Samantha Towle

To succeed in life and achieve results, you must understand and master three mighty forces - desire, belief, and expectation. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul. — Frank Delaney