Non Autistic Savants Quotes & Sayings

I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people. — John Perkins

Your misery is everyone else's entertainment. — Adam Duritz

I'm a really gifted physical comedienne. I write and produce a lot of sketch comedy. — Jenn Lyon

Take comfort in the devil you know. It may be safer then the one you don't — Vortigern Black

Animals are like autistic savants. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that animals might actually be autistic savants. Animals have special talents normal people don't, the same way autistic people have special talents normal people don't; and at least some animals have special forms of genius normal people don't, the same way some autistic savants have special forms of genius. I think most of the time animal genius probably happens for the same reason autistic genius does: a difference in the brain autistic people share with animals. — Temple Grandin

The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true. — Frank Arthur Swinnerton

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit - -to the "conquest" of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature. — Alan W. Watts

I was going mad. One day, I just started writing, and it was like therapy because I was in a position where I couldn't rage. I never expected to be a writer; it's a different world than I ever expected to be in. — John Trudell

For instead of being "the ardent pursuer of science" that some imagined, Jefferson was the captive of ambition, and ambition, Adams told John Quincy, was "the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field . . . [and] wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner. — David McCullough

A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others. — Mordecai Richler

The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as airplane food. — Bob Blumer

Wherever I go meeting the public ... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing. — Dalai Lama

Cats probably wouldn't need 9 lives if they wore tiny little helmets and didn't smoke cigarettes. — Rob Delaney