No One Cleans The Litter Box Quotes & Sayings

If you put it as 'complex nervous systems' it sounds pretty deflationary. What's so special about a complex nervous system? But of course, that complex nervous system allows you to do calculus. It allows you to do astrophysics ... to write poetry ... to fall in love. Put under that description, when asked 'What's so special about humans ... ?', I'm at a loss to know how to answer that question. If you don't see why we'd be special ... because we can do poetry [and] think philosophical thoughts [and] we can think about the morality of our behavior, I'm not sure what kind of answer could possibly satisfy you at that point.
... I could pose the same kinds of questions of you ... So God says, 'You are guys are really, really special.' How does his saying it make us special? 'But you see, he gave us a soul.' How does our having a soul make us special? Whatever answer you give, you could always say ... 'What's so special about that? — Shelly Kagan

It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You see, real freedom is something tangible- it's the American's birthright- but it is also something that can be taken away at a moment's notice. — Alex Gilvarry

Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes. — Robert A. Heinlein

I think, for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change. — Koren Zailckas

Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong. — Steven Spielberg

I've been escaping my whole life. Since I was a little child, I escaped into the movies on the other side as an audience member. I escaped by going into the movies and sitting in the movies all day long. — Woody Allen