Cortical Quotes

#1. The type of Alzheimer's Dad has is rare - posterior cortical atrophy or PCA - and it affects his spatial awareness and the way he judges distance. His first symptoms were erratic typing and spelling, but to talk to him, you'd never know there was a problem.

Rhianna Pratchett

#2. Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.

Michael Merzenich

#3. I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.

Terry Pratchett

#4. I know they call me low-cortical and all, but even so, I got this one corner of my brain that's like Grand Central Station. Stuff that other people can't figure out comes easy to me.

Neal Shusterman

#5. this posterior firing of maps of the body represents a primary cortical representation and may involve the parietal lobe - a region that may turn out to play an important role in self-awareness and a sense of identity (for further

Daniel J. Siegel

#6. In the early Sixties, having begun to describe the physiology of cells in the adult cat visual cortex, David Hubel and I decided to investigate how the highly specific response properties of cortical cells emerged during postnatal development.

Torsten Wiesel

#7. A woman's sense of self and power should come not from the number of heads she can turn, but rather from the minds and hearts she can turn.

Tziporah Heller

#8. Insanity does NOT run in my family. It strolls through, takes its time, and gets to know everyone personally. - T-SHIRT

Darynda Jones

#9. Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common thingsor it may actually add to the number of motives poetic and uncommon in themselves, by the imaginative creation of things that are ideal from their very birth.

Walter Pater

#10. It's not about thinking outside of the box. It's about realizing there is no box.

Jari Askins

#11. What happened between my legs was best ignored. I'm certain something in the employment contract outlawed any and all wetness on my part, especially if it pertained to one James Dylan Ferries.

Kylie Scott

#12. A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#13. People just try to put you in a box and I don't see myself in any particular box. I'm making my own box. There's no way I would be able to make the music I'm making without dancing ...

Jillian Hervey

#14. Because of our tendency to want what others want, and because of our inclination to see the choices of others as an efficient way to understand the world, our social networks can magnify what starts as an essentially random variation.

Nicholas A. Christakis

#15. I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#16. You miserable vomitous mass,

William Goldman

#17. I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.

Julie Delpy