Magstrike Quotes & Sayings

serious art came from . . . . out there! — Stephen King

Only within a patriarchal structure is maternity the only social power open to women. — Audre Lorde

There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it's a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage. — Ben Katchor

Early in my career, I had no consistency. Now I'm the most consistent player on the tour. It feels pretty good. — Roger Federer

Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do. — Benicio Del Toro

I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring. — Zooey Deschanel

I bit my lip. "If what you feel is wrong then what I feel for you is doubly wrong."
"Do two wrongs make a right?" he asked.
"No, not usually," I said.
"Not usually," he repeated. "Does that mean you're willing to try?"

Siva and Sloane — Micalea Smeltzer

As people began playing, Delgado watched the activity in their striata. This time, when people were allowed to make their own choices, their brains lit up just like in the previous experiment. They showed the neurological equivalents of anticipation and excitement. But during those rounds when participants didn't have any control over their guesses, when the computer made a choice for them, people's striata went essentially silent. It was as if their brains became uninterested in the exercise. There was "robust activity in the caudate nucleus only when subjects" were permitted to guess, Delgado and his colleagues later wrote. "The anticipation of choice itself was associated with increased activity in corticostriatal regions, particularly the ventral striatum, involved in affective and motivational processes." What — Charles Duhigg

It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old thing, but if you wait until February, you are convinced that nothing less than Middlemarch will do. — Anne Fadiman

I Survived the Black Plague — Cynthia Hand

Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old. — Bhumibol Adulyadej

Love makes the air light. — John Updike

Often it is fatal to live too long. — Jean Racine