Nekrum Quotes & Sayings

If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all other things we know. Well-connected representations let you turn ideas around in your mind, to envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works for you. And that's what we mean by thinking! — Marvin Minsky

Then one night Blake had saved them all.
Blake made the old organ into a tool. You could see right into his soul through the notes he played. Beckett knew why Blake had Jesus' eyes. Kindness, hope, and light filled the music he played. — Debra Anastasia

It's not a small world! It's a painful, ugly world! — Kane

Women's currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman. — Susan Cheever

Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to organize and exploit distractions, to make of them, because of their economic importance, the core and vital center of human life, to idealize them as the highest manifestations of mental activity. Ours is an age of systematized irrelevances, and the imbecile within us has become one of the Titans, upon whose shoulders rests the weight of the social and economic system — Aldous Huxley

Who could blame her for seeking my scars in return? When we are unhappy we hurt. — Graham Greene

The principles governing the speed at which the human organism can biologically adapt offer us the single greatest insight into why civilizations succeed and fail as well as the most reliable preview of our own destiny. — Rebecca D. Costa

I actually think 'Sex and the City' helped share how complicated it all is, to be a wife, a mother, and working, and a sexual being. — Kim Cattrall

I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Once you realize that everything happens for a reason, attitudes towards matters such as illnesses, or lawsuits, for example, change. — Shari Arison

I was an emotional manipulator of fighters ... You have to know how to be cold, you know? Just have no -emotions, no feelings. It takes time, though, to develop that. I'd been working on that since I was 12 years old. It doesn't happen overnight. — Mike Tyson

I knew she loved me." Disgusted, — Nora Roberts

It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up. — Vince Lombardi