Lpretail Quotes & Sayings

I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence. — Jayne Anne Phillips

Structurally we should understand that one cannot think that the human brain is different from the brain of the other vertebrates. It is an important question, because we can investigate what is the difference between the brain of a mouse and ours, and of course the difference is enormous, in size and capacity. — Rodolfo Llinas

But for their cries,
The herons would be lost
Amidst the morning snow. — Chiyo Ni

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks. — Edward Tufte

My chest hurts ... It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart. — Natsuki Takaya

The past times that you think were good, are good because they are not yours here and now. — Augustine Of Hippo

You tempt me.I can't be tempted.I'm not made to be tempted,but you,Pagan Moore,you tempt me.From the moment i came for you i was drawn in.Everything about you.."One of his hands left my waist and moved up to gently caress my arm."You make me crazy with need.With want.I didn't understand it at first.But now i know.It's your soul calling to me.Souls mean nothing to me.They aren't supposed to.But yours has become my obsession. — Abbi Glines

She did love Paul during certain hours of certain days. How many hours did you have to love someone to be in love? — Lincoln Michel

Noah held my hand and my bag as he escorted me to the third floor - the Women's Pavilion. The elevator bell rang and the doors opened.
"Jesus, Echo, circulation in my hand would be a good thing," said Noah.
"Sorry." I tried to let go, but Noah kept his fingers linked with mine. — Katie McGarry

NASA might do well to adopt the Red Bull approach to branding and astronautics. Suddenly the man in the spacesuit is not an underpaid civil servant; he's the ultimate extreme athlete. Red Bull knows how to make space hip. — Mary Roach

I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me. — Amrita Sher-Gil

Half the evil in this world occurs while decent people stand by and do nothing wrong. It's not enough to refrain from evil, Trell. People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed. — Robin Hobb

New poems no longer come to me with their prodigies of metaphor and assonance. Prose endures. I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is, on the whole, preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two. — Donald Hall

Anyone who looks good with a bald head is seriously sexy. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Singing is just doing interesting things to the air. Elongating it and twisting it into shapes. — Tom Waits