Meda Melange Quotes & Sayings

If we take two people who have exactly the same sort of lesion or area of damage in the brain and then we do cognitive tests on them, you know, one person might have a very severe deficit in a certain area of thinking and another person might not with the same exact lesion. So there is a lot of differences and you can't just look at one brain and understand the whole picture. — H. A. Berlin

Something is aware of even the energy of confusion inside of you. There is no need to get unconfused. Leave it - it will pass. — Mooji

And, like Christmas, Armand has brought gifts. But he is no fat, sweet Santa Claus who rewards the nice; he is the Lord of Misrule, the Abbot of Unreason in charge of scandalous fun. — Eliza Crewe

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law. — Taslima Nasrin

Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together. — Yotam Ottolenghi

And, lastly, there's a small pack of wide-eyed innocents in awe of my Beacon-ness who follow me around expecting me to perform a miracle any minute. Sometimes I screw up my face like I'm trying. Or constipated. — Eliza Crewe

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London. — Martin Scorsese

I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles. — Daniel Day-Lewis

I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by. — Beck

People slice up tree trunks, nail the pieces together into boxy shapes, and then go inside to sleep. Trees use the wood in their trunks for a different purpose - namely, they use it to fight with other plants. From dandelions to daffodils, from ferns to figs, from potatoes to pine trees - every plant growing on land is striving toward two prizes: light, which comes from above, and water, which comes from below. Any contest between two plants can be decided in one move, when the winner simultaneously reaches higher and digs deeper than the loser. Consider the tremendous advantage that wood confers to one of the contestants during such a battle: armed with a stiff-yet-flexible, strong-yet-light prop that separates - and connects - leaves and roots, trees have dominated the tournament for more than four hundred million years. — Hope Jahren

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book. — Kate Morton

All goal setting must be immediately followed by both the development of a plan, and massive and consistent action toward its fulfillment. — Tony Robbins

There goes the girl with the wings," they say. "The damned dreamer with her eyes shut to the world."
"There goes the misguided soul with her heart buried in the ground."
They taunt. They lie. They lie. THEY LIE.
I don't pretend to understand life. THEY LIE. — Nadege Richards

But I am not sick, or crazy, or broken.
I am Meda Melange, demon-saint monster girl. I make full-grown men scream in terror. I break bones and drain blood. I turn nightmares into reality.
I am the most powerful creature on earth. I do not wear a leash. — Eliza Crewe

They studied the phenomenon at Harvard." "They studied soul-stealing at Harvard?" "What else do you think they do in business school? In any case, it's called the Ikea effect." "As in furniture? — Eliza Crewe

Ah well, no rest for the wicked and all that. I'll just have to kill him myself. — Eliza Crewe