Narcoanalysis Quotes & Sayings

Give a boy - ANY boy - enough time, and he WILL eventually pick his nose! — Lincoln Peirce

They ask only one question: "what is pleasing to the Spirit of God?" And as soon as they have heard the sound of the Spirit in the silence and solitude of their hearts, they follow its promptings even if it upsets their friends, disrupts their environment, and confuses their admirers. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion. — Vladimir Nabokov

There is nothing redemptive about the loss of a child, no lessons of value it can teach you. It is too big, too overwhelming, too black to articulate. It is a bleak, overwhelming physical pain, shocking in its intensity, and every time you think you might have moved forward an inch it swells back, like a tidal wave, to drown you again. — Jojo Moyes

Everyone is more focused on presenting the best that the league has to offer, rather than the worst. — Joe Dumars

Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Yukiko steered the subject away from sex as fast as she could. She was still occasionally woken by nightmares about the day her father had tried to sit her down for "the talk". — Jay Kristoff

Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors. — Shaan

I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be. — Christopher Nolan

To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult. — Thomas Pynchon

You're going to need this," she said, and pulled out a condom.
"At some point, we're also going to need a defibrillator and a fire extinguisher."
"Promises, promises. — Nora Roberts

I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say, well, he's just a quiet leader, but then he emerges as super hero and begins to move this legislation. He led by example. — Barbara Mikulski

They were experimenting with narcoanalysis and found that Old Bull had seven separate personalities, each growing worse and worse on the way down, till finally he was a raving idiot and had to be restrained with chains. The top personality was an English lord, the bottom the idiot. Halfway he was an old Negro who stood in line, waiting with everyone else and said, Some's bastards, some's ain't, that's the score. — Jack Kerouac

I've done TV, but never where you're given this much time to live with a character, to study the tone and hone it and repair stuff, to go back and watch old episodes and go, "Oh no, that's a misstep. That's a victory. I should do more of that, less of that." — Vera Farmiga