Synesthetes Quotes & Sayings

I hated him- I hated him for everything he had done, but, more than that, I hated him for being right. — Alexandra Bracken

I want a Britain that is one nation, with shared values and purpose, where merit comes before privilege, run for the many not the few, strong and sure of itself at home and abroad. — Tony Blair

There is a strong link between synesthesia and photographic memory (technically called eidetic memory) or at least heightened memory (hypermnesis). Many synesthetes used their synesthesia as a mnemonic aid. — Richard E. Cytowic

Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak.
"Life," answered the doctor. — Rick Yancey

I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died. — Drew Gilpin Faust

Let's zoom in on a particular form of synesthesia as an example. For most of us, February and Wednesday do not have any particular place in space. But some synesthetes experience precise locations in relation to their bodies for numbers, time units, and other concepts involving sequence or ordinality. They can point to the spot where the number 32 is, where December floats, or where the year 1966 lies.8 These objectified three-dimensional sequences are commonly called number forms, although more precisely the phenomenon is called spatial sequence synesthesia.9 The most common types of spatial sequence synesthesia involve days of the week, months of the year, the counting integers, or years grouped by decade. In addition to these common types, researchers have encountered spatial configurations for shoe and clothing sizes, baseball statistics, historical eras, salaries, TV channels, temperature, and more. — David Eagleman

Other approaches to studying language, and there are many, go by names like poetics, philology, and rhetoric, but as long as we have had the word in English, linguistics has been associated with the methods, goals, and results of science.1 When William Whewell (who is also responsible for the coinage, scientist) first proposed the term, it was in his History of the Inductive Sciences (1837.1:cxiv; he was borrowing it from the Germans, who, Teutonically
enough, later came to prefer Sprachwissenschaft). — Randy Allen Harris

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition, — Yves Saint-Laurent

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love. — Jack Kornfield

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street. — Carl Andre

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure. — Camille Paglia

People need a monster they can believe in.
A true and horrible enemy. A demon to define themselves against. Otherwise, it's just us versus us. — Chuck Palahniuk

I was worried about my own vagina. It needed a context of other vaginas
a community, a culture of vaginas. There's so much darkness and secrecy surrounding them
like the Bermunda Triangle. — Eve Ensler