Kavner Of Simpsons Quotes & Sayings

The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random. — Robin Marantz Henig

I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. — Jane Austen

Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave. — Jeffrey Kluger

Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy. — Rodolfo Costa

Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork. — Joyce Carol Oates

I suggest that the emergence of descriptive language is at the root of the human power of imagination, of human inventiveness, and therefore the emergence of world 3. — Karl R. Popper

How fine is the mesh of death. You can almost see through it. — Jane Hirshfield

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way. — Carrie Coon

Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions. — Jonathan Lethem

I enjoy going out to the plants, the factories where just some sub-element maybe of the orbiter or the space station is built. Those people take such pride in that component, and they build it to perfection, and it's just a pleasure to see that. — Kevin A. Ford

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded. — Jim Fowler

We all confidently believe that there are at present, and have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own ... [This] may seem wild, and visionary; all I maintain is that it is not unscientific. — Lord Kelvin

I could weep for all the innocent women and children who were burned and maimed in London - and it doesn't help at all to know that German women and children are suffering the same. — Ken Follett