Physiatrist Quotes & Sayings

As Michael T. Ghiselin (1974) said: We are anything but a mechanism set up to perceive the truth for its own sake. Rather, we have evolved a nervous system that acts in the interest of our gonads, and one attuned to the demands of reproductive competition. If fools are more prolific than wise men, then to that degree folly will be favored by selection. And if ignorance aids in obtaining a mate, then men and women will tend to be ignorant. (p. 126) — Jeffry A. Simpson

The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense. — Tadashi Yanai

A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water. — Margaret Atwood

In short, I should have liked to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet be man enough to know its value — Charles Dickens

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it. — Horace Greeley

I'm not really a very social person. It exhausts me when I'm out. — Steve Grand

Now I knew that if that's how the devil looks, I wanted to go straight to hell. — Carolina Soto

Cats talk to whomever they please. — Robin Hobb

He looked at me like I meant so much to him, like I was the fucking sun and he was a planet orbiting it. — R.J. Lewis

I've been around long enough for people to know who I am and what my contributions are. They know me as more than just an artist. I think they know me as a woman as well. — Aretha Franklin

Once we become interested in the progress of the plants in our care, their development becomes a part of the rhythm of our own lives and we are refreshed by it. — Thalassa Cruso