Lundon Quotes

#1. In the context of stress, the great paradox of the modern age may be that there is not more hardship, just more news - and too much of it. The 24/7 streaming torrent of tragedy and demands flashing at us from an array of digital displays keeps the amygdala flying.

John J. Ratey

#2. I hadn't just backed up the toilet; I'd made the septic tank flood the house.

Mariana Zapata

#3. You cannot plan for love. You cannot choose against it once it has come.

Chris Fabry

#4. I'd never really thought about it before, but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected my relationship with it.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#5. I don't ever want to have a weak episode of television with my name on it.

Shawn Ryan

#6. I am fascinated by crime scene investigating. I swear, I wish I was a crime scene investigator sometimes!

Kim Kardashian

#7. Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Alfred North Whitehead

#8. Everything seemed so unreal - so supernatural - and I had to remind myself that is was. We weren't human. We never were. (Jessica)

Shannon A. Thompson

#9. Grief was a room filled with hungry desperate light.

Jandy Nelson

#10. We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

John Searle

#11. I'm a parent, and I regulate what my kids listen to. I don't need the government to be the parent. If I'm a crappy parent, then I need the government involved.

Howard Stern

#12. I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend.

Richard D. Zanuck

#13. I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works.

Italo Calvino

#14. On the nights I stuffed myself full of myths, I dreamed of college, of being pumped full of all the old knowledge until I knew everything there was to know, all the past cultures picked clean like delicious roasted chicken.

Lauren Groff

#15. We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.

William Boyd