Shansea Quotes & Sayings

Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important, and wishing never works. — David Shore

I didn't know it would be black," she murmured with a little smile.
Horror flooded his face. "Oh, Christ! — J.R. Ward

Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us ... and nothing. — Malcolm Bradbury

The brain does much more than recollect. It compares, synthesizes, analyzes, generates abstractions. We must figure out much more than our genes can know. That is why the brain library is some ten thousand times larger than the gene library. Our passion for learning, evident in the behaviour of every toddler, is the tool for our survival. Emotions and ritualized behaviour patterns are built deeply into us. They are part of our humanity. But they are not characteristically human. Many other animals have feelings. What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behaviour patterns of lizards and baboons. We are, each of us, largerly responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves. — Carl Sagan

The mind of an artist never sleeps, because dreaming is when they do their best work. — Mark W. Boyer

I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary. — Mahatma Gandhi

He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz. — Oscar Peterson

He saw a blinded convulsing body thrown down into an open grave. It was an image he could not escape. — Shane K.P. O'Neill

Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident. — William Feather

It's really good to be forced to get away and try something else, find something that's exciting. — John Scofield

The only people I really hate are parking attendants. — Alison Jackson