Cortices Quotes

#1. The immune system, the hypothalamus, the ventro-medial frontal cortices, and the Bill of Rights have the same root cause.

Antonio R. Damasio

#2. The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.

Erica Jong

#3. Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.

W.C. Fields

#4. Your bread assumes the shape of the pan you use to bake your flour. Therefore stand still and know that you can't use a rounded pan and ever get squared bread. Change the pan and change the shape of the bread!

Israelmore Ayivor

#5. I considered, quite seriously, strangling her to death while I fucked her and then throwing myself in front of the 8:11 bus. The idea was not without its logic and appeal. But there were the bus driver's feelings to consider ...

Jonathan Franzen

#6. If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?

Ruth Gordon

#7. If your thirst for knowledge is strong enough, you will find the waters to satisfy it.

Debasish Mridha

#8. As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand.

James Payn

#9. I will accept any amount of monsters my mind wants to give me, but I will not become a monster myself.

Marissa Meyer

#10. I think there's something wrong with me - I like to win in everything I do, regardless of what it is. You want to race down the street, I want to beat you. If we're playing checkers, I want to win. You beat me, it's going to bother me. I just enjoy competition.

Derek Jeter

#11. Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

Michael Polanyi