Blakemore Quotes

#1. The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create objects out of images(symbols) ... The artist, like the eye, must provide true images and the clues of distance to tell his magic lies.

Colin Blakemore

#2. Ephraim found a stack of postcards tied together with a faded green ribbon. He shuffled through them and found they were from every World's Fair from 1915 in San Francisco to 1939 in New York. None of the postcards hed been written on or mailed.

Megan Frazer Blakemore

#3. Orlando said it was important for scientists to have minds kept open by literature, and souls touched by the creativity of art.

Megan Frazer Blakemore

#4. As women, we are the protagonists of our own personal novels. We are called upon to be the heroines of our own lives, not supporting characters.

Erin Blakemore

#5. And while I'm sure they're very admirable and brave and all the rest of it, I don't personally fancy the mortality rate -

J.K. Rowling

#6. Rachel could sell cheese to vegans.

Megan Frazer Blakemore

#7. Normally zombies gave her comfort. They were slow. There were straightforward ways to kill them. If they ever showed up, she would know what to do. Too bad the rest of life wasn't like that.

Megan Frazer Blakemore

#8. I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

Edward Abbey

#9. When we focus on people and life instead of material possessions and mere wants, there's not much room for emotional hand-wringing. Instead, there's more space to weigh what we value in our lives and to acknowledge what really counts. Chapter 9 Simplicity Laura Ingalls in The Long Winter

Erin Blakemore

#10. Any heroine worth reading about will one day find herself on the moors of a devastating personal crisis. For the most part, we must traverse them alone.
Chapter 10 Steadfastness Jane Eyre

Erin Blakemore

#11. The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself.

Colin Blakemore

#12. As soon as the words leave her mouth, I'm completely consumed by a sense of peace. For the first time since the second she was taken away from me, I finally know what forgiveness feels like.

Colleen Hoover

#13. There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.

Helen Hayes

#14. [monkeys] are used only when no other species and no alternatice approach can provide the answers to questions about such conditions as Alzhemers, stroke, Parkinson's, spinal injury, hormone disorders, and vaccines for HIV

Colin Blakemore

#15. Revenge is simply justice with teeth.

Simon R. Green

#16. To me, it was about finding new opportunities. I know my voice touches people. It has for years. I can't give that up.

Taylor Dane

#17. Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

Jean Giraudoux

#18. To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.

Sebastian Coe

#19. Her attention remained divided between the page in her hand and, fifty feet away, the closed bedroom door.

Ian McEwan

#20. or perhaps because of, her natural aloofness and her ability to withdraw and view things without emotion. The fact that this extended to her own life, leaving her appearing cold and distant, was beside the point.

Rachel Abbott

#21. Almost 400 years ago, Shakespeare was portraying adolescents in a very similar light to the light that we portray them in today - but today we try to understand their behavior in terms of the underlying changes that are going on in their brain.

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

#22. The journey is greater than the destination.

Rick Riordan

#23. His gaze glossed over a stack of wooden crates and landed on a steamer trunk that was covered with stickers from all over the world.

Megan Frazer Blakemore

#24. No mountain of doom,
Just foothills of Ferninand.
Towers of fire and glory as far as one can see.

Megan Frazer Blakemore

#25. Don't you love those crazy Brits?
Jumpers for sweaters and spots for zits.
And when they want to change their suits,
It's in a box, not a booth.
Be a hero, make a call.
Steepest streets might make you fall.

Megan Frazer Blakemore

#26. If the cells and fibres in one human brain were all stretched out end to end, they would certainly reach to the moon and back. Yet the fact that they are not arranged end to end enabled man to go there himself. The astonishing tangle within our heads makes us what we are.

Colin Blakemore

#27. For the answer you seek,
Look up.

Megan Frazer Blakemore

#28. We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for improving human health

Colin Blakemore

#29. I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional evolution. We shouldn't be complacent in thinking that we can predict the results.

Colin Blakemore

#30. Just bc u loved and lost doesn't mean stop loving. If u have a nightmare, does it mean u stop dreaming?

Jill Scott