Phosphenes Quotes & Sayings

The problem is that stepping away from Brian, leaving him standing under that pergola on Wednesday, is no longer enough to leave behind how he made me feel in that hour. I could leave him there, we could part as strangers, but God, I know that I would look for him. He would live in my peripheral vision, a ghost nudging me to turn and look behind me, only to find a spot that is emptier than empty — Mary Ann Rivers

My analyst warned me, but you were so beautiful I got another analyst. — Woody Allen

Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless. — James Geary

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character. — Emma Goldman

And in the bloodlit dark behind his eyes, silver phosphenes boiled in from the edge of space, hypnagogic images jerking past like a film compiled of random frames. Symbols, figures, faces, a blurred, fragmented mandala of visual information. — William Gibson

Anyone who grew up in the psychedelic '60s probably experienced their share of hypnagogic fireworks. Just as sex got me hooked on anatomy, so drugs were probably what first got me interested in entoptic phenomena, phosphenes, and hypnagogic imagery. — Peter Blegvad

Again, I tried to not let it bother me, but the ego is frail, fragile tender thing. — S.C. Stephens

One thing I've learned in my program is that guilt is a wasted emotion, you know? Look back on the past but don't stare. — Wally Lamb

Sometimes it's convenient to have a pet that no one believes in. I'd never be allowed to bring a cat to work every day, but since Crow "isn't real," no one's ever reported him to the zoo management. Other times, I think it would be nice to stop hiding him from the world. Miniature griffins could be the next big trend in exotic pets. — Seanan McGuire

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. — Joyce Carol Oates

We shall not become like Christ until we give Him more time. — Frank Laubach

There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none? — W. Somerset Maugham

What do you want from me? Revenge? Sorry - we're all out of revenge today! — Clifford Odets

...the beige should not wear beige. — Margaret Atwood

Fathers have a special excitement about them that babies find intriguing. At this time in his life an infant counts on his motherfor rootedness and anchoring. He can count on his father to be just different enough from a mother. Fathers embody a delicious mixture of familiarity and novelty. They are novel without being strange or frightening. — Louise J. Kaplan

They're only crayons. You didn't fear them in Kindergarten, why fear them now? — Hugh MacLeod

Once torched by truth, Swede wrote years later, a little thing like faith is easy. — Leif Enger