Organul Jacobson Quotes & Sayings

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create. — Brittany Murphy

Self persuasion was a concept much loved by evolutionary psychologists. I had written a piece about it for an Australian magazine. It was pure armchair science, and it went like this: if you lived in a group, like humans have always done, persuading others of your own needs and interests would be fundamental to your well-being. Sometimes you had to use cunning. Clearly you would be at your most convincing if you persuaded yourself first and did not even have to pretend to believe what you were saying. The kind of self-deluding individuals who tended to do this flourished, as did their genes. So it was we squabbled and scrapped, for our unique intelligence was always at the service of our special pleading and selective blindness to the weakness of our case. — Ian McEwan

There are always certain things that you tap into, your own personal experiences, and I try to base my characters on someone I know or someone I've seen. — Stephen Graham

But any man can lose his head. That's what they don't realise. Any man. Under the right set of circumstances — Stephen King

Fasting and praying gets you to where God wants you to be. You must make the sacrifice of fasting and praying to get something extraordinary from God. — Robert N. Fortson Sr.

If we push on, we begin to feel a vague, tingling sense of who, or what, we really are. It's a powerful feeling, strong enough to have us coming back for more, again and again. — Adharanand Finn

Here they are proposing to us, through various secret pamphlets of foreign manufacture, that we should join ranks and form small groups for the sole purpose of creating mass destruction, under the pretext that since you can't treat the world, you can't cure anything, and that if you're radical enough to cut off a hundred million heads and thereby lighten your burden, you can jump across the ditch more confidently. A beautiful idea, no doubt, — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world. The greatest tales are told over and over, in many ways, through centuries. Fantasy changes with the changing times, and yet it is still the oldest kind of tale in the world, for it began once upon a time, and we haven't heard the end of it yet. — Patricia A. McKillip

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight. — Samuel Richardson

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. — Paulo Coelho

The 'public' artist confirms the world that we already accept, though he inevitably widens our experience of it; his method is one of research, the progressive uncovering of detail. — Kenneth Coutts-Smith

I always felt people who took themselves seriously were kind of boring. — George Hamilton

My life has been nothing but a failure. — Claude Monet