Quilvio Verass Birthday Quotes & Sayings

Tell me, what kind of functions does pain have when one is convicted to 100 whippings in Saudie Arabia? You claim pain has a function, I claim that's scientific rubbish. The only thing pain really does is cause an instant reaction that is not rational and usually quite erratic. The famous example of the hand in boiling water, for example. You say it proves pain has a function. But exactly because of the spasmic reaction lots and lots of people will drop the bowl with boiling water over their entire bodies causing serious burns. So what was the 'function' of this pain? Pain and fear cause confusion and trauma. If pain actually did have a rational function, chronic pain would not exist. — Martijn Benders

I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays. — Susan Straight

Tristram Shandy may perhaps go on a little longer, but we will not follow him. With all his drollery there is a sameness of extravagance which tires us. We have just a succession of Surprise, surprise, surprise. — David Hume

Only assholes write plays about Nazis. — David Lindsay-Abaire

Like nature, women are the creative power behind all of creation. — Debasish Mridha

I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working! — Billie Joe Armstrong

I never thought I would -- or could-- write a novel. Believe me, it is much easier to say 'I should write a book someday' than it is to actually do it. — Leinad Platz

I see all sorts of things when I'm clearing my pipes. — Janet Morris

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God. — Mark Buchanan