Oatley Quotes & Sayings

In reading, friendship is restored immediately to its original purity. With books there is no forced sociability. If we pass the evening with those friends - books - it's because we really want to. When we leave them, we do so with regret and, when we have left them, there are none of those thoughts that spoil friendship: "What did they think of us?" - "Did we make a mistake and say something tactless?" - "Did they like us?" - nor is there the anxiety of being forgotten because of displacement by someone else. All such agitating thoughts expire as we enter the pure and calm friendship of reading. — Marcel Proust

Empathy is the driving force behind the experience of emotions in narratives (Keen, 2006; Mar et al., 2006; Oatley, 2011). — Mikkel Wallentin

Triangle theory, I just founded it before "I" theory. That all letters are build with triangle, make few crosses and what you got, will be a perfect triangle, diffirent varienties. — Deyth Banger

I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian. — Samira Wiley

But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey?
Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!
Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world? — Jules Verne

Did you hear that crazy man? we said.
Education is your mother? we said.
We laughed and did imitations. We thought Mr. Kondit, like more than a few of the men and boys who had crossed the desert to get to Ethiopia, had lost his mind along the way. — Dave Eggers

The opposite of creativity is compliance to external imposition, having for one reason or another to bend to the will of another. — Keith Oatley

Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof. — Kate Millett

Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal. — Thomas Jefferson

That smile of hers could seriously crash planes. — S.J. Kincaid