Complexity Of The Human Brain Quotes

#1. And his eyes frighten me, too. They're the eyes of an old man, an old man who's seen so much in life that he no longer cares to go on living. They're not even desperate ... just quiet and expectant, and very, very lonely, as if he were quite alone of his own free choice.

Anne Holm

#2. Life was, Mrs. Hill had come to understand, a trial by endurance, which everybody, eventually, failed.

Jo Baker

#3. There's no room for me in your world;
It's time I stopped pretending.
But nothing hurts me more
Than a friendship when it's ending.

Margo T. Rose

#4. Sometimes the way to share your love is to let someone go.

Bryant McGill

#5. The chisel is the pen of the sculptor.

Pope Pius IX

#6. I never saw any people who appeared to live so much without amusement as the Cincinnatians ... Were it not for the churches, ... Ithink there might be a general bonfire of best bonnets, for I never could discover any other use for them.

Frances Trollope

#7. (letters) They were like a kelp forest, they cast a weird green light, you could get lost there, become tangled and drown.
... still eyeing the letters like Portuguese man-of-wars floating on the innocent sea.

Janet Fitch

#8. Sometimes a person has to let go of something to take hold of something else.

Heidi Heilig

#9. My look, mind you, is not chocolate like Lauryn Hill, Whoopi Goldberg, or Naomi Campbell - it is pitch black and shimmering like the purple outer space of the universe. I am the charcoal that creates diamonds. I am the blackest black woman (41).

Kola Boof

#10. It is unmatched in its ability to think, to communicate, and to reason. Most striking of all, it has a unique awareness of its identity and of its place in space and time. Welcome to the human brain, the cathedral of complexity.

Peter Coveney

#11. Some people try to climb the ladder of success, while others try to jump on it

Josh Stern

#12. I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#13. Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.

Pete Earley

#14. My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.

David Duchovny