Ontogenetically Quotes

#1. Thinking in pictures is, therefore, only a very incomplete form of becoming conscious. In some way, too, it stands nearer to unconscious processes than does thinking in words, and it is unquestionably older than the latter both ontogenetically and phylogenetically.

Sigmund Freud

#2. The old adage says that it's better to be lucky than good. Apparently having the right network is better than both. At

J.D. Vance

#3. We all want something that sticks

Tim Tharp

#4. What you believe yourself to be, you are.

Claude M. Bristol

#5. Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as 'Burning Man' in Nevada? Is there time to change this?

Grover Norquist

#6. Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.

Malcolm Turnbull

#7. At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#8. Wait, are you saying a love interest has to annoy you?

Kasie West

#9. In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.

Timothy Noah

#10. But her soft lips were upon his, drinking his living breath, and he was now gasping in divine madness, pressing his mouth over hers like a drowning man, breathing through her. . . . "That

Vera Nazarian

#11. It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

Doris Lessing

#12. Do I get paid, too?'
'Yes,' he said without hesitation. This scared me, because Crawley gave money like bulls gave milk: not at all, and you get gored for asking. If he had already decided this was a paying job, it must be horrible beyond words.

Neal Shusterman