Neocortical Lesion Quotes & Sayings

The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere. — Frances Beinecke

Rock bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things unbearable ... Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It's a failure of vision, a failure to see the world as it is, to see the good in what it is, and only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do and not some other way. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

I rap about Memphis and what a dangerous spot that is. — Juicy J

I was a pretty terrible lawyer. A really, really terrible lawyer. — Elizabeth Strout

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. — Blaise Pascal

Let the American infidels bask in their illusion. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always looses — Robert Jordan

What would Samuel Becket say if he knew that Broadway musicals are all that survived of the theatre world? — Amber Dawn

The toughest part of acting is never a single thing. It's more like a whole character. I find film really difficult - trying to make it feel like a consistent character when you're filming everything out of order. — Carey Mulligan

As a songwriter or artist, there's only so many ways you can say, 'I love you' or 'I think you're beautiful.' — Tyler Farr

It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. — Anthony Burgess

He preferred yielding his own wish to gratify others, rather than to insist upon having his own way. — Ulysses S. Grant

The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done. — Wendy Davis

The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives, ... but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else. — Wendell Berry