Synesthete Quotes

#1. My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

Lasse Hallstrom

#2. Much of what we call History is the success stories of madmen.

John Holt

#3. What the hell's wrong with mimosas?' Aphrodite was saying. 'Orange juice is for breakfast.'
'What about the champagne part? That's alcohol,' Stevie Rae said.
'It's pink Veuve Clicquot. That means its good champagne, which cancels out the alcohol part,

P.C. Cast

#4. The McDonald brothers were simply not on my wavelength at all. I was obsessed with the idea of making McDonald's the biggest and the best. They were content with what they had; they didn't want to be bothered with more risks and more demands.

Ray Kroc

#5. It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.

Wallace Stegner

#6. I never was what I should be.

Henry James

#7. He'd heard about people who ascended too quickly and developed nitrogen bubbles in their blood. Leo wanted to avoid carbonated blood.

Rick Riordan

#8. It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

Alice Walker

#9. Because I'm a synesthete I see characters in colors and I perceive a W as green.

Robert Cailliau

#10. Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister - that redolence of moral blackmail that adheres to certain charitable appeals and certain kinds of politician. (Not for nothing is baby-kissing the synonym for public insincerity.)

Christopher Hitchens

#11. A goal is a dream with a deadline." ~ Napoleon Hill

Happy Living Books

#12. We all say we want The Truth, but we all want our secrets kept.

Thomas Maltman

#13. Other people, some other writers, will win certain accolades or sell in far greater numbers than me - and I'm a legitimate best-selling author - but I live and die for the work. That's thrilling to me. It's thrilling that I do for others what certain writers did for me when I was a kid.

James Ellroy

#14. I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

A.S. Byatt

#15. So, am I some sort of Savior? Not hardly. Save yourself the worry about needing to be saved from anything.

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

#16. There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

Bill Bowerman

#17. I write to make things death can't steal.

Jeff Zentner