Karen Offerman Quotes & Sayings

Professor Ramachandran believes this synesthetic connection between our hearing and seeing senses was an important first step towards the creation of words in early humans. According to this theory, our ancestors would have begun to talk by using sounds that evoked the object they wanted to describe. For example, words referring to something small often involve making a synesthetic small i sound with the lips and a narrowing of the vocal tracts: Little, teeny, petite, whereas the opposite is true of words denoting something large or enormous. If the theory is right, then language emerged from the vast array of synesthetic connections in the human brain. — Daniel Tammet

Time is all we have and don't. — Atticus Poetry

Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it. — Hermann Hesse

Sometimes, taking a job is like going to a shrink or something, where you get to know yourself better. — Leelee Sobieski

I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing. — Louis Armstrong

There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims. — Tom Robbins

But I make it in time for the Gospel, which in Catholic lore means that it still "counts". — Kerry Weber

The one who is color blind sees the way — Thabiso Monkoe