Top 100 Quotes About Siri
#1. What makes Siri cool is she has a personality.
Tim Cook
#2. Yes, Siri. A dedicated socialist plunges headfirst into the troubled waters without testing the depth." "Isn't he likely to bump his head on the bottom?" Siri asked.
Colin Cotterill
#3. I'm just sayin'. I've have been around this block a lot longer than Siri.
Mark Andrew Poe
#4. Sarcasm," he said, "is like throwing a stick at your enemy when you've run out of bullets." Siri
Colin Cotterill
#5. Siri!" James screamed at his phone. "Oh my god, Siri, call a damn ambulance!" An icon spun in the middle of the screen as it accessed the internet. "Displaying search results for 'cauliflower ambulance'.
Mikey Neumann
#6. Why do you have a picture of my mentor, Siri, on the shelf above your fireplace? - Evaline.
...
That's not your mentor... That's my mother, Desiree. - Mina
Colleen Gleason
#7. Siri has proven to us that people want to relate to the phone in a different way.
Tim Cook
#8. Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one.
Kim Wright
#9. Couples without kids have each other, their friends, families, and Siri to talk to. It's not like they're quarantining themselves in an underground bunker, never to take a romantic stroll on the beach or attend a Morrissey concert ever again. They're just using birth control.
Jen Kirkman
#10. But Siri knew the slow pace of books and the cadences of theater under the stars. I knew only the stars.
Dan Simmons
#11. I'm beginning to view democracy as the Siri of political systems. So much better in theory.
Rob Thomas
#12. Asking Siri where the nearest sushi bar is - that's not interesting. What's interesting is asking your phone where one of your friends have last had dinner in the neighborhood, or having it recommend a cool paella place in Barcelona because it knows you eat paella all the time at home.
Dennis Crowley
#13. Later, when the battles are won and the world is theirs, I will tell them about her. I will sing to them of Siri.
Dan Simmons
#14. Thank Siri when she helps, it's only polite!
Dutch Jones
#15. AI does not keep me up at night. Almost no one is working on conscious machines. Deep learning algorithms, or Google search, or Facebook personalization, or Siri or self driving cars or Watson, those have the same relationship to conscious machines as a toaster does to a chess-playing computer.
Ramez Naam
#16. Siri let out a silent puff of air. If he'd had a wife like this he would certainly have shot her long ago.
Colin Cotterill
#17. If she raised you, she's your mother," Siri said. "It doesn't matter who gave birth to you." He
Brandon Sanderson
#18. My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you're in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home.
Carson Daly
#19. did you realize every time you speak a query into Apple's Siri artificial intelligence agent, your voice recording is analyzed and stored by the company for at least two years?
Marc Goodman
#20. Strindberg came to the rescue. Why, he had asked her, did every woman he ever met have to bring her bloody mother into the bed, every bloody woman, including his own wife, Siri. "You have a wife," she had said.
Edna O'Brien
#21. You've been back from Vegas for a week and you've uttered like four words since then."
I furrowed my brows. "Not true."
"Asking Siri to play James Blunt doesn't count.
R.S. Grey
#22. As Siri walked along that oh-so-noisy riverbank on his way to work, he saw a pelican gliding above the surface of the water. It was a marvelous bird, proud and resourceful, and he imagined how it would taste with a little chili paste and fresh yams. Hungry people made poor environmentalists.
Colin Cotterill
#23. Siri whispered an answer to my unasked question. "No, Merin, one is never really too old. At least not too old to want the warmth and closeness. You decide, my love. I will be content either way." I decided. Towards the dawn we slept.
Dan Simmons
#24. About Siri . . . Snuffles?" said Harry. "No . . . not exactly . . ." said Hermione slowly. "More . . . wondering . . . I suppose we're doing the right thing . . . I think . . . aren't we?" Harry and Ron looked at each other.
J.K. Rowling
#25. People imagine that hope has degrees, but I think not. There is hope and there is no hope.
Siri Hustvedt
#26. But spectacular lies don't need to be perfect. They rely less on the liar's skill than on the listener's expectations and wishes. After Mark's dishonesty was exposed, I understood how much I wised that what he had told me had been true.
Siri Hustvedt
#27. We waste those eggs like crazy, of course, flushing them out every month in days of bleeding, but then most sperm are wholly useless as well, a thought to be considered elsewhere at greater length.
Siri Hustvedt
#28. My father once asked me if I knew where yonder was. I said I thought yonder was another word for there. He smiled and said, No, yonder is between here and there.
Siri Hustvedt
#29. The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.
Siri Hustvedt
#30. If something's not working, it's wonderful to have a reader you can trust to say, 'Actually, you've gone off the deep end here'.
Siri Hustvedt
#31. Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.
Siri Hustvedt
#32. Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live to write another one.'
Siri Hustvedt
#33. Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.
Siri Hustvedt
#34. People can't help what they feel. It's what they do that counts
Siri Hustvedt
#35. There is no perception without memory. But good art surprise us. Good art reorients our expectations, forces us to break the pattern, to see in a new way.
Siri Hustvedt
#36. Only time will tell in what ways Freud was prescient and in what ways he failed to understand how the mind functions. For example, no scientist and very few psychoanalysts still embrace Freud's death instinct.
Siri Hustvedt
#37. ...I often thought of our marriage as one long conversation.
Siri Hustvedt
#38. It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do.
Siri Hustvedt
#39. Infancy is irretrievable. Its memories live underground. To what extent they return by stealth or are triggered by various catalysts remains an ongoing question.
Siri Hustvedt
#40. My parents were gigantic influences on me. I had a deep hunger to impress my father, who was a professor and an intellectual. I wanted his approval.
Siri Hustvedt
#41. Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.
Siri Hustvedt
#42. Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I'm not writing.
Siri Hustvedt
#43. Dr. S. talked to me about magical thinking. She was right. Much depends on chance, on what we can't control, on others. She did not say that writing to Boris was a bad idea, but then she never judged anything. That was her magic. [p. 85]
Siri Hustvedt
#44. I was walking home from the library on Broadway, and I remember that the street looked different to me, very clear and beautiful, and I felt incredibly happy. I even said to myself, 'I've never been happier than I am now.
Siri Hustvedt
#45. I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the subject.
Siri Hustvedt
#46. Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.
Siri Hustvedt
#47. I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.
Siri Hustvedt
#48. Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.
Siri Hustvedt
#49. Within weeks of my arrival in New York, I was someone else, not because there had been a revolution in my psychological makeup or any trauma. It was simply this: people saw me in a light in which I had never been seen before.
Siri Hustvedt
#50. How she loved you, her bubeleh, her boychik, her darling, but there was something cloying in that love, something theatrical and selfish, and you knew it and, as soon as you were big enough, you kept her at a safe distance.
Siri Hustvedt
#52. Writers are in control of editing processes - making a sentence better, cutting out a paragraph. But the initial outpouring has very little to do with conscious control or manipulation.
Siri Hustvedt
#53. It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!
Siri Hustvedt
#54. That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.
Siri Hustvedt
#55. Every time the DSM prepares for a new edition, there are countless groups lobbying to get their particular mental illness recognized by the diagnostic manual. Surely, this is a social and cultural phenomenon.
Siri Hustvedt
#56. Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done carefully.
Siri Hustvedt
#57. He took up my hand and looked me straight in the eyes. "You weren't meant to hear it because it wasn't true." "It . . . wasn't?" "No. You see, Franklin has always taken from me everything I ever wanted. And this time, I determined that he would not take you.
Siri Mitchell
#58. Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.
Siri Hustvedt
#59. I listened to the whine in my voice with a detached fascination. It was a false question. No answer would have pacified me. I had simply given in to a perverse need to ask, to expose and torment myself, and as soon as I heard the words, I experienced both relief and humiliation.
Siri Hustvedt
#60. Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.
Siri Hustvedt
#61. Insanity is a state of profound self-absorption.
Siri Hustvedt
#62. A sense that even if every scrap of a life were saved, thrown into a giant mound and then carefully sifted to extract all possible meaning, it would not add up to a life.
Siri Hustvedt
#63. The best works of art are never innocuous: they alter the viewer's perceptual predictions. It is only when the patterns of our vision are disrupted that we truly pay attention and must ask ourselves what we are looking at.
Siri Hustvedt
#64. It is not that there is no difference between men and women; it is how much difference that difference makes, and how we choose to frame it.
Siri Hustvedt
#65. I like 'nerves'! I like the word 'migraineur'. I like the word 'madness'. These are OK words. The 19th century had a very handy term: 'neurasthenic'. I think that's a very useful word. We all know what that means: it means extra-sensitive.
Siri Hustvedt
#66. Drowning, she clung fiercely to that small, splintered piece of mast bobbing in the ocean we call justice. There is no justice, of course, or very little of it, and counting on it as a life raft is a big mistake.
Siri Hustvedt
#67. Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.
Siri Hustvedt
#68. What she remembered is undoubtedly something so radically different from the image I gave to her memory that the two may be incompatible.
Siri Hustvedt
#69. I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes.
Siri Hustvedt
#70. The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories.
Siri Hustvedt
#71. I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian.
Siri Hustvedt
#72. Hysteria is something that I've been interested for a very long time. I thought I might have it, but it seems that it's unlikely.
Siri Hustvedt
#73. I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly.
Siri Hustvedt
#74. Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.
Siri Hustvedt
#75. The man was heavy with life. So often it's lightness that we admire. Those people who appear weightless and unburdened, who hover instead of walk, attract us with their defiance of ordinary gravity. Their carelessness mimics happiness, but Bill had none of that.
Siri Hustvedt
#77. There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.
Siri Hustvedt
#78. I wonder now whether it isn't dangerous to assign significance to that which is essentially vacant, but we can't seem to avoid it. We cover up the holes with our speech, explaining away the emptiness until we forget it is there.
Siri Hustvedt
#79. I suppose Stanley fell in love with me during those talks about life and books, but he probably loved someone else, a person who wasn't me.
Siri Hustvedt
#80. I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did like, sent it to 'The Paris Review' - the highest publication I could think of - and they accepted it. No other moment in my literary life has quite come close to that.
Siri Hustvedt
#81. She meant that if your conscience holds you back, if it muddles the purity of your desire, if it gives you mixed feelings, don't do it.
Siri Hustvedt
#82. Mostly the same, but different in parts, mostly in those lower begetting and bearing parts? Or different in kind?
Siri Hustvedt
#83. No one rejoices more in revenge than women, wrote Juvenal. Women do most delight in revenge, wrote Sir Thomas Browne. Sweet is revenge, especially to women, wrote Lord Byron. And I say, I wonder why, boys. I wonder why.
Siri Hustvedt
#84. It seems to me that going backward sometimes means going forward.
Siri Hustvedt
#85. The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the environment.
Siri Hustvedt
#86. Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.
Siri Hustvedt
#87. My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don't make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and I'm aware of the fact that memory is fallible, that if I had access to films or some absolute documentary evidence of what happened, it might look different; we get confused and fuzzy.
Siri Hustvedt
#88. The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.
Siri Hustvedt
#89. I do understand! I understand what they do not, and that is you can only do with what you have. What God has given you. If you try to be anyone else, it is the worst thing that can happen because you cannot ever be them - and then you give up being you
Siri Mitchell
#90. Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent reading, the feel and smell of the old blanket or toy, the nightlight glowing in a corner.
Siri Hustvedt
#91. In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.
Siri Hustvedt
#92. My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, my three sisters, and their families.
Siri Hustvedt
#93. In this early memory he looks different from the way I would remember him later.
Siri Hustvedt
#94. Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal hallucinations and reality.
Siri Hustvedt
#95. Loss.
A known absence.
If you didn't know it,
it would be nothing,
which it is, of course,
a nothing of another kind,
as acutely felt as a blister,
but a tumult, too,
in the region of the heart and lungs,
an emptiness with a name: You
Siri Hustvedt
#96. The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on high display in intimate relations - inside the family.
Siri Hustvedt
#97. Immigration inevitably involves error and revision. What I imagined it would be, it's not. For better or worse, some mistake is unavoidable.
Siri Hustvedt
#98. I had no destination, just the will to go, and I went fast.
Siri Hustvedt
#99. Neurobiological research has shown that in people with chronic PTSD, both stress hormone secretion and areas of the brain connected to memory function, such as the hippocampus, appear to be affected, although exactly how and why remains controversial.
Siri Hustvedt
#100. We cannot wish our worlds into being. Much depends on chance, on what we can't control, on others.
Siri Hustvedt
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