Optic Nerve Quotes

#1. Online magazines such as Salon, Slate, and Suck, had already made an elementary discovery: a reader staring into the equivalent of a thirty-watt bulb didn't want to confront thousands of words. The medium required a little extra white space, a sort of oasis for the optic nerve.

James Marcus

#2. Then she placed her hands, vertically, over her eyes and pressed the heels hard, as though to paralyze the optic nerve and drown all images into a voidlike black.

J.D. Salinger

#3. I had a tumor in my left eye which killed the optic nerve, but it's my real eye. I just cannot see out of it.

Sandy Duncan

#4. Jason once told me that eye contact is the most intimacy two people can have
forget sex
because the optic nerve is technically an extension of the brain, and when two people look into each other's eyes, it's brain-to-brain.

Douglas Coupland

#5. When I first started drawing the earliest incarnation of 'Optic Nerve,' I hadn't even been on a date; I hadn't had a romantic relationship of any kind yet, so in a way, I was almost writing science fiction.

Adrian Tomine

#6. Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can't help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women are thinking, "How can he want me the way I look in the morning?" It's because we can't see you. We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve.

Andy Rooney

#7. It's absolutely chilling to think that I've been working on a comic-book series called 'Optic Nerve' since I was sixteen.

Adrian Tomine

#8. Schopenhauer and Spinoza distilled, condensed, and funneled through the pupil, along the optic nerve, and directly into our occipital lobes. I'd love to be able to eat with my eyes - I'm

Irvin D. Yalom

#9. Irish nationalists can never be the assenting parties to the mutilation of the Irish nation. The two nation theory is to us an abomination and a blasphemy.

John Redmond

#10. You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

Charles Dickens

#11. He'd wanted to show his past tormentor what he was capable of, but he also wanted to prove himself to everyone. Now everyone was in the kitchen.

Markus Zusak

#12. To love and be loved is all we know and all we need to know.

Steven Tyler

#13. I think it's important to set up that boundary of respect for your kids at a young age, so they will know, I better listen to Mommy.

Britney Spears

#14. An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

Charles De Montesquieu

#15. If the observation were made to you that "Strangers become intimate, and as intimacy grows they lower their guards and less mind their manners until errors are made, which decreases intimacy until estrangement exceeds that which existed before the strangers ever met," would you be inclined to agree?

Padgett Powell

#16. I've been a good teacher for eleven years, and then they come up with this mandated testing crap? With the state pushing for performance, the Board of Ed would have been all over me once those test results came in! Me? Like it's my fault these kids can't pass a test?

Jo-Ann Lamon Reccoppa

#17. I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to not tell the story from beginning to end - to tell stories sideways, to give alternative possibilities that the reader can, in a way, choose between.

Salman Rushdie

#18. All these people who say success changes people; well, no, it just magnifies what's there.

Kevin Smith

#19. There was no escape from being unwanted. And that was the truth that struck at me the most deeply.

Julianne Donaldson

#20. Don't complain about the things you are not willing to work hard to change.

Andre Bramble

#21. You never know how you look through other people's eyes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.

P. J. O'Rourke