Vertigos Myspace Quotes & Sayings

If he doesn't give her back, chop off his manhood and feed it to the goats," Tyrion promised. "Provided you can find some. — George R R Martin

There's a lot of scientific evidence demonstrating that focused attention leads to the reshaping of the brain. In animals rewarded for noticing sound (to hunt or to avoid being hunted, for example), we find much larger auditory centers in the brain. In animals rewarded for sharp eyesight, the visual areas are larger. Brain scans of violinists provide more evidence, showing dramatic growth and expansion in regions of the cortex that represent the left hand, which has to finger the strings precisely, often at very high speed. Other studies have shown that the hippocampus, which is vital for spatial memory, is enlarged in taxi drivers. The point is that the physical architecture of the brain changes according to where we direct our attention and what we practice doing. — Daniel J. Siegel

Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers. — Thomas Hodgskin

You will find scraps of paper all over the house when I am designing a new woodcut and woe betide the person who touches one of the scraps. When I have the exact design in my mind, I set the model up, pots and flowers, leaves and background, and begin work. — Margaret Preston

I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I need to worry about!" — Matthew William Goode

Mrs. Vandor said, with her eyes closed, I wouldn't make that kind of thing a habit. One wishes to be useful, but not indispensably so. — Amy Bloom

Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light,even though for the moment you do not see. — Bill Wilson

All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting. — N. T. Wright

If you don't take chances, you can't do anything in life. — Michael Spinks

Both trials are marred with injustice, both are flawed. — Ramsey Clark

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The Obama Administration continues to talk about the 'policies of the past' and insist that a return to those policies will lead to disaster. — Marsha Blackburn

Remind me who you are," he said in a gentler tone, almost a please. "How we know each other."
"Okay," she began. "I'm Savannah Evans, a grad student and teaching assistant who teaches English at a college in Cambridge. I applied to the colony to work on my poetry and arrived six weeks ago. "We've spoken many times. You've praised my work, which I find a great honor as I'm a fan of your art. — Lisa Carlisle