Manhandling The Brain Quotes & Sayings

Bjork, I'd love to do something with her. I'd love to do some sort of crazy orchestral choir thing with her. — Ellie Goulding

I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time. — Auberon Herbert

If you want to get an audience quiet, just say "abortion" and everybody shuts up and the tension in the room is spectacular. — Lewis Black

Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves. — Livy

Real reading is a lonely activity. — Harold Bloom

When a man has a black face, suspicion is proof. — George Orwell

A book is the one place you're permitted to feel emotion; anywhere else you're expected to be professional.
And you ask me why I like to read... — Suzanne Steele

Even while in school - initially, Vineberg Allen in Mussourie, and later, a number of schools in Ludhiana - I aspired to achieve great things in life. Admittedly, I wasn't quite sure about what these great things would be. — Sunil Mittal

I can't fathom the day when I'll be able to figure out how to independently maneuver my way into my bra, like I used to, every day since I was thirteen. The left arm through the left loop, the left boob into the left cup. Never mind the clasp in the back. My poor injured brain gets all twisted up like some circus contortionist even trying to imagine how this procedure would work. I'm supposed to at least try every step of getting dressed on my own, but when it comes to the bra, I no longer bother. My mother just does it for me, and we don't tell the therapists.She holds up one of my white Victoria's Secret Miracle Bras. I close my eyes, shutting out the humiliating image of my mother manhandling my boobs. But even with my eyes closed, I can feel her cold fingers against my bare skin, and as I can't help but picture what she's doing, humiliation saunters right in, takes a seat, and puts its feet up. Like it does every day now. — Lisa Genova