Alerting Quotes

#1. Curiosity's primal. Our senses scan our surroundings, alerting us most urgently about sudden change. Useful, that. Change can mean opportunity. It can mean danger. Finding lunch or being lunch. We're hard-wired to notice the unexpected, then take action.

Julie Czerneda

#2. The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control.

William S. Burroughs

#3. The sight of her was like a swift, cool wind through his frame, quickening his body, alerting all his senses, making him completely aware he was a male and she a female.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#4. Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#5. Chewing gum actually lowers your cortisol levels, the hormone responsible for stress. But chewing gum doesn't just reduce stress, it also makes you more alert and improves your performance in memory-oriented tasks. It does so by increasing the blood flow to your brain and alerting your senses.

Travis Bradberry

#6. alerting the system to contradictions relies critically on particular brain regions - and one in particular, called the anterior cingulate cortex.

David Eagleman

#7. There is no denying that Snowden's dramatic disclosures, despite the damage they did to U.S. intelligence, accomplished a salutary service in alerting both the public and the government to the potential danger of a surveillance leviathan." (p.299)

Edward Jay Epstein

#8. Maze: "I'm alerting HQ. Stand by."
*on the private comlink*
Corr: "How are you Omega? Can we help? We're really concerned that you're stranded on a shabla rock surrounded by an infinite number of natives who'll cut your gett'se off when they haul you screaming from the summit.

Karen Traviss

#9. We have always had dogs, and they have faithfully performed many valuable services for us, such as: 1. Peeing on everything. 2. When we're driving in our car, alerting us that we have passed another dog by barking real loud in our ears for the next 114 miles. 3. Trying to kill the Avon lady.

Dave Barry

#10. A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.

J.G. Ballard

#11. Nothing is so treacherous as the obvious.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#12. An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.

Dale Carnegie

#13. I believe the discussion itself is divine.

Rob Bell

#14. Let's chew on the chewables!

Pawan Mishra

#15. The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.

Isaac Barrow

#16. For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

Alan Watts

#17. He's quite as nervously broken down as I am, but it manifests itself in different ways. His inclination is toward megalomania and mine toward melancholy.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#18. Perhaps it's true that love is eternal. But it's appearance changes all the time.

Peter Hoeg