Quotes About Aphasia

#1. patients with aphasia and left-hemisphere lesions, says they have lost 'abstract' and 'propositional' thought - and compares them with dogs (or, rather, he compares dogs to patients with aphasia).

Oliver Sacks

#2. What's retaliate?" asked Aphasia.
"It means, kill most of the enemy, and let the survivors apologies.

Paul Cornell

#3. The scientific study of the relationship between brain and mind began in 1861, when Broca, in France, found that specific difficulties in the expressive use of speech, aphasia, consistently followed damage to a particular portion of the left hemisphere of the brain.

Oliver Sacks

#4. "The duke stopped beside Maddy's chair. He turned to Mr. Pember and in the sort of tone that could command regiments, uttered. "Cat."

Laura Kinsale

#5. I have a great ability to improvise verbally, and I am very funny on a dime.

Kate Braverman

#6. All he felt now was envy. These people had expectations. Of the world, of the future, it didn't matter
expectation was such an innovative concept to him that he couldn't help but be a bit moved by what they were saying. Whatever that was.

Colson Whitehead

#7. He put his fist against his chest. "Burn, Maddygirl," he said. Then he turned and left her in the flickering gloom and thunder.

Laura Kinsale

#8. My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.

Augusten Burroughs

#9. I don't even want to try to understand it, and so begin to mistake it for something else after that, paling shadows of this original feeling, something inaudibly delicate that would not survive the passage into speech.

Karen Russell

#10. Devi energy (shakti) is there within all of us. Devi is not somewhere else, not in some other world. It is within us - Devi Shakti

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#11. When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.

Mae West

#12. The views were immensely wide. Everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequealled nobility.

Karen Blixen

#13. People are always more encouraged when we share how God's grace helped us in weakness than when we brag about our strengths.

Rick Warren

#14. It's like having a head full of holes, in which the perfect repository of words have shamed themselves, he lamented.

Diane Ackerman