Kwasnik Dr Quotes & Sayings

I got a dog and named him 'Stay'. Now, I go 'Come here, Stay!' After a while, the dog went insane and wouldn't move at all. — Steven Wright

Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds. — Loretta Chase

We shape our life by deciding to pay attention to it. It is the direction of our attention and its intensity that will determines what we accomplish and how well. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The superfluous, a very necessary thing. — Voltaire

In August of 1998, I completed Seize the Night, the sequel to my novel Fear Nothing, one of many of my books in which a dog is among the cast of principal characters. Every time I wrote a story that included a canine, my yearning for a dog grew. Readers and critics alike said I had an uncanny knack for writing convincingly about dogs and even for writing from a dog's point of view. When a story contained a canine character, I always felt especially inspired, as if some angel watching over me was trying to tell me that dogs were a fundamental part of my destiny if only I would listen. — Dean Koontz

I was pretty shy. — Seann William Scott

George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence. — Emilio Botin

No matter how much time goes by, missing someone never gets any better. You just learn to work around it. — Lilith Saintcrow

Physiological confirmation of such "filling in" by involuntary musical imagery has recently been obtained by William Kelley and his colleagues at Dartmouth, who used functional MRI to scan the auditory cortex while their subjects listened to familiar and unfamiliar songs in which short segments had been replaced by gaps of silence. The silent gaps embedded in familiar songs were not consciously noticed by their subjects, but the researchers observed that these gaps "induced greater activation in the auditory association areas than did silent gaps embedded in unknown songs; this was true for gaps in songs with lyrics and without lyrics. — Oliver Sacks

Maybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin) — Patricia Briggs

When I'm writing, I don't really have much other guide than, 'As a reader, how would I respond to this?' — Ann Leckie