Frontal Quotes

#1. Stiftung is not enveloping thought, but open thought, not the intended and Vorhabe of an actual center, but an 'off-center' which will be rectified, not the positing of an end, but the positing of a style, not a frontal grasp but a lateral divergence, algae brought back from the depths.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#2. Unlike those other painters, Brewster hadn't resorted to indirect gazes or chiaroscuro to communicate the silence of his world. The faces were well-lit and frontal, and yet they were quiet.

Teju Cole

#3. I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

Rachel Johnson

#4. No matter how puny your frontal equipment, don't wear the kind with the giant pads inside. If a guy squeezes them, he will wonder why they feel like Nerf balls instead of boobs.

E. Lockhart

#5. It looks like garbage, my ass. But trust me, you're lucky it's not full-frontal.

Rob Corddry

#6. My frontal lobe doesn't function well. When I'm out with friends, I typically have a cup of coffee, and that's not good for my sleep. And yet I'll do it again, night after night - 'Oh why did I have that cup of coffee?' I can't stop it because I love it.

May-Britt Moser

#7. We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames the questions after a while. Most frontal attacks on evil just produce another kind of evil in yourself, along with a very inflated self-image to boot.

Richard Rohr

#8. The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.

John Frankenheimer

#9. An internally conceived and gestated fetus is a protected fetus, and a protected fetus is a fetus freed to loll about long enough to bloom a giant brain. So we lend new meaning to the term egghead: from the cloistered egg is born the bulging frontal lobe.

Natalie Angier

#10. Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.

Arca

#11. Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Herbert Hoover

#12. Children who plan their own goals, set weekly schedules, evaluate their own work build up their frontal cortex and take more control over their lives.

Bruce Feiler

#13. An angry frontal attack puts even the most invulnerable person on the defensive.

Sue Patton Thoele

#14. I was talking to my friend who's a psychologist, who says a woman's frontal cortex isn't fully developed till 25 and a man's till 28. I was almost 34 when we met; he was 39. So I wouldn't say either of us has wildly changed; I just love him more and more.

Reese Witherspoon

#15. A scan showed that a benign brain tumor was pressing on her right frontal lobe. In terms of operative risk, it was the best kind of tumor to have, and the best place to have it; surgery would almost certainly eliminate her seizures. The alternative was a lifetime on toxic antiseizure medications.

Paul Kalanithi

#16. We'll help," said one boy, his finger far enough up his nose to tickle a memory nesting in his frontal lobe.

Christopher Moore

#17. Your experience is a dream; so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortex is repressed during dreaming, lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.

Stephen LaBerge

#18. Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!

Oscar Wilde

#19. Male nudity, full-frontal nudity, has always been considered a lot more taboo than female nudity. As far back as I can remember, there's been a double standard between men and women. I think it's time that men get equal time in terms of nudity.

Darren Star

#20. You don't beat refusal to believe in a frontal attack.

Isaac Asimov

#21. It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.

Edgar Degas

#22. The pre-frontal region of the Peking man resembles that found in some parts of the Middle West.

Will Cuppy

#23. I play characters who are comfortable naked, but that's something you work up to. I did a play off-Broadway in New York when I was in college. It was full-frontal nudity. It's nerve-racking.

Joe Manganiello

#24. But then there was The Bite of '87. Yeah. I-It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, you know?

Scott Cawthon

#25. I come to reality, realizing that Levi is still staring at me, and I'm lost somewhere in my brain. I clearly took a wrong turn at the frontal lobe and got lost somewhere in the sensory cortex.

Anonymous

#26. man with his frontal lobes pushed back like that is unpredictable.

Rex Stout

#27. According to a recent study of the brains of identical and fraternal twins, differences in the amount of gray matter in the frontal lobes are not only genetically influenced but are significantly correlated with differences in intelligence.

Steven Pinker

#28. I'm pretty sure I would never do a full frontal in a movie - for personal reasons, I wouldn't really want to show that.

Amanda Seyfried

#29. Still, we made it back to the corn mill, and even though it felt like a dwarf with a chisel had taken up permanent residence in my frontal lobe, I managed to stagger all the way back to the house.

Rachel Hawkins

#30. I would rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy

Dean Martin

#31. Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.

Ernestine Rose

#32. I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Tom Waits

#33. I am a doctor. A.B ... M.A ... PH.D ... ABMAPHID! Abmaphid has been variously described as a wasting disease of the frontal lobes, and as a wonder drug. It is actually both.I'm really very mistrustful.

Edward Albee

#34. When we start organizing, we tend to put tactics before reason. We see a messy space and launch a wild, full frontal assault before we understand the background of the problem and equip ourselves to meet the challenge. This is like going into battle unarmed without knowing our enemy!

Vicki Norris

#35. Sometimes I wonder if he has a philosophy. Maybe even a worldview. I'd like to sit down with him and pick his brain, just a tiny bit somewhere in the frontal lobe to get a taste of his thoughts. But he's too much of a toughguy to ever be that vulnerable. - R on M

Isaac Marion

#36. Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault,

Yusef Komunyakaa

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

Antonio R. Damasio

#38. The earliest portions to shrink are generally the frontal lobes, which govern judgment and planning, and the hippocampus, where memory is organized. As a consequence, memory and the ability to gather and weigh multiple ideas - to multitask - peaks in midlife and then gradually declines.

Atul Gawande

#39. I sank into a chair and mopped the frontal bone. Not for many a long day had I been in such a doodah

P.G. Wodehouse

#40. One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces ... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

#41. Television concentrates its blue flicker of death in the frontal lobe

Allen Ginsberg

#42. All my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made.

Rex Stout

#43. The influx of competing messages that we receive whenever we go online not only overloads our working memory; it makes it much harder for our frontal lobes to concentrate our attention on any one thing. The process of memory consolidation can't even get started.

Nicholas Carr

#44. I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

Fred Allen

#45. The supposed reality of misfiring synapses, chemical imbalances, frontal lobe anomalies and the like - did not sway her desire for escape into an alternate universe - where she could discover fascinating things about her inner world - or where she could hide from the real world.

Kelly Proudfoot

#46. When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.

H. H. Asquith

#47. That was exactly what happened - the conformists showed less brain activity in the frontal, decision-making regions and more in the areas of the brain associated with perception. Peer pressure, in other words, is not only unpleasant, but can actually change your view of a problem.

Susan Cain

#48. I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from? The desire to destroy myself? This last depression had scared me. It had come on so quickly, not like the gradual woolgathering in my brain I had known before.

Betsy Lerner

#49. At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit of the eye, into the frontal lobe; the ice pick was then stirred around until it reduced the problematic brain tissue to non-functioning porridge.

Alastair Reynolds

#50. There's virtually nothing to stop the cold air from off of Hudson Bay from flowing down across the midlands. So you get good contrast: the warm air coming up
the cold air coming down
and where they meet is your typical frontal location.

Joe Schaefer

#51. The time I spent with Sloane was like boxing with my frontal lobe.

Eli Easton

#52. I am not one of these guys who is just going to waste American lives by throwing people needlessly in frontal attacks up against the enemy if I can avoid doing that.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#53. In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.

Steven Soderbergh

#54. He went full frontal in The Evidence Locker. America swooned and my vibrator got a fresh round of batteries.

Alessandra Torre

#55. Elephants also have the necessary neural anatomy for long-term memories - their brains have especially large and complex frontal lobes, which are important for storing and retrieving memories of scent, touch, smell, and sound. There's little doubt that elephants have prodigious memories.

Virginia Morell

#56. I'd like to sit down with him and pick his brain, just a tiny bite somewhere in the frontal lobe to get a taste of his thoughts -Warm Bodies

Isaac Marion

#57. But Paul has a problem. He has a tumor in the right frontal lobe of his brain, about the size of a hen's egg.

John Grisham

#58. Advertising departments, as you know, are crawling with people whose frontal lobes are so underdeveloped that if you flatter them a bit they'll swear shit is platinum.

Ryu Murakami

#59. Being an executive doesn't require very developed frontal lobes, but rather a combination of charisma, a capacity to sustain boredom, and the ability to shallowly perform on harrowing schedules.

Nicholas Nassim Taleb

#60. The problem is, is when your focus is created by a crisis, then the frontal lobe shuts down essentially, the frontal cortex which is your intuitive intelligence. So you get very clever and very stupid in a crisis. Also, you pump adrenalin into your body from what you - physiologically you'll crash.

David Allen