Brain Rules Book Quotes

#1. I don't think you can approach any piece of art with boundaries or rules. I think respect is a very important thing, but I also think what we discover along the way is really important.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#2. I don't want a lot of good investments; I want a few outstanding ones.

John Neff

#3. Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

Carl Sandburg

#4. sometimes the best way to get out of a slump is to get a good hump!" "Yes!

R.S. Grey

#5. This is where life as I knew it changed. This is where a new feeling slowly, eventually, permeated every cell of my body, changing the way I took in the world. My perceptions, opinions, everything changed the year I moved from Texas to Virginia.

Sharon E. Rainey

#6. I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could cross what is kind of trivialized as a domestic novel with a novel of ideas, a philosophical novel.

Jenny Offill

#7. It seemed a lifetime ago i'd lain in bed with Lena and felt her breath tickling my chin and held her while she slept, felt her heart beating through her skin to mine.
it was a lifetime ago. everything was different.

Lauren Oliver

#8. I am the worst at keeping secrets. I am the kind of person that the second I buy someone a Christmas present, I tell them what I bought them. I don't wait until Christmas. I'm not good at it.

Jessica Chastain

#9. Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never spent much time in Washington.

Elliott Abrams

#10. Children with cancer, as one surgeon noted, were typically "tucked in the farthest recesses of the hospital wards." They were on their deathbeds anyway, the pediatricians argued; wouldn't it be kinder and gentler, some insisted, to just "let them die in peace"?

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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J.D. Robb

#12. Any way you slice it, increasing the minimum wage in Michigan ... is likely to make it more difficult for the working poor to find jobs ... those who most need the work will have a harder time finding it.

Paul Kersey

#13. Time is a storm in which we are all lost.

William Carlos Williams

#14. Even today, if my title hadn't been given back to me and I was in such poverty where I had to go and find a job, I would have done that.

Muhammad Ali