Shunt In The Brain Quotes & Sayings

If all shy, soulful young women who dreamed of becoming writers for a living actually could do that, imagine the library we would have. — Sarah Elwell

My clothes are made of monosodium glutamate and hexachlorophene. My food is made of polyester, rayon and lurex. My rug lotions contain vitamins. Do my vitamins feature cleaning agents? I hope so. My brain is gimmicked by a microprocessor the size of a quark, and costing ten pee and running the whole deal. I am made of - junk, I'm just junk. — Martin Amis

Every life is precious. — Stephenie Meyer

Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty. — Pandora Poikilos

The central issue of poetry as of politics is the destiny of the human personality. — Martin Carter

Any fool can write, we start learning it at school at the age of three ... — Pandora Poikilos

When I took over as chair of the fashion program, I was horrified that only the faculty member was allowed to speak in a critique. I'm talking about perfectly nurturing teachers. But the rule was there would be no call of hands for students to contribute their feedback. It was embedded in the department's culture. That was alarming to me. When I was teaching, I was the least important person in the room as far as I was concerned
my students' points of view mattered most. I wanted to learn who they were and teach them to respect one another's perspectives.
I would start off by saying something like, I am having trouble understanding how this work solves the problem at hand. Here are some things about the work that I appreciate: X, Y, Z. But I see these virtues independent of the problem we're solving. — Tim Gunn

A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats. — George Bernard Shaw

This is almost the most famous story The last samurai - Samurai story - in Japan. — Hiroyuki Sanada

A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city. — Rita Ora

I will always do what I want to do and I won't go with the crowd. — Georgia Salpa

Smiles are the language of love. — David Hare

Regret was for people with nothing to defend, people who had no water. — Mindy McGinnis

The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may often assume the appearance and produce the effects of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy. If Alaric himself had been introduced into the council of Ravenna, he would probably have advised the same measures which were actually pursued by the ministers of Honorius. — Edward Gibbon

People want to protect the territory that they have, and they're very threatened by change. That's not true for all of scientists, but you know, fortunately, the scientific community moves forward in a conservative fashion. — Craig Venter

Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park. — David Halberstam