Stories Assessment Quotes & Sayings

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did. — Zoe Kazan

The neocortex is not like a computer, parallel or otherwise. Instead of computing answers to problems the neocortex uses stored memories to solve problems and produce behavior. — Jeff Hawkins

It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand. — Emile Durkheim

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. — Robertson Davies

Amplifying atoms is more subtle than amplifying electromagnetic waves because atoms can only change their quantum state and cannot be created. Therefore, even if one could amplify gold atoms, one would not realize the dreams of medieval alchemy. — Wolfgang Ketterle

First love is only once in a lifetime, and it remains only in memory. — Jessica Simpson

I grew up with donkeys, as well as horses, but I'm more interested in donkeys. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

Whenever you're in doubt about any action, ask yourself: Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind? You can also ask, what would love do now? — Harold Klemp

Literature is impossible, in exactly this sense: every new generation has so much 'catching up' to do that the real choice that presents itself soon is the following one: one either spends ones entire life just reading all the classics, or one pretends to be 'contemporary and hip' and never reads any of the classics because in order to pretend to be contemporary one has to at least superficially read the works of contemporaries. Hence the dilemma: one either does not care about being fashionable, or one is fashionable and just learns to mimic some knowledge about the classics. As time develops this rift just becomes bigger, because the amount of books written grows and grows to insane proportions. Conclusion: one can only be hip in the future if one does not read at all, which is a phenomenon I am already witnessing in the media. — Martijn Benders

The transgression of Adam and Eve was not in learning the difference between good and evil but in treating the knowledge they received as something that was, literally, internal to them-a food that could be seized, devoured, and controlled by the individual. — Michael Rips

So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents. — Logan Pearsall Smith

Some genealogies claimed to be able to trace the Maclean ancestry even further back, going as far as Julius Caesar, and, in some cases, admittedly more tendentiously, to the ancient Celtic god of the sun. — Alexander McCall Smith

I pardon him, as God shall pardon me. — William Shakespeare

I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life. — Mickalene Thomas