Unstimulated Quotes

#1. The danger, when not seen, has the imperfect vagueness of human thought. The fear grows shadowy; and Imagination, the enemy of men, the father of all terrors, unstimulated, sinks to rest in the dullness of exhausted emotion.

Joseph Conrad

#2. We are creating and encouraging a culture of distraction where we are increasingly disconnected from the people and events around us, and increasingly unable to engage in long-form thinking. People now feel anxious when their brains are unstimulated.

Joe Kraus

#3. And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

Minoru Yamasaki

#4. Even though my Sunday school upbringing had taught me that God loved me, inwardly I always suspected that maybe He was more interested in making me miserable than in blessing me.

Eric Ludy

#5. Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.

Colson Whitehead

#6. Reading book reviews is like asking other people to chew your food for you.

Ron Brackin

#7. There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

Jilly Cooper

#8. He didn't want to be like some old-fashioned imperialist missionary, poncing about like Moses in a safari suit, capitalizing on a misconception that he was from the same tribe as Jesus and that God was an Englishman.

Michel Faber

#9. Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.

Giovanni Ruffini

#10. The more transparent something was, the more mysterious it seemed. The universe itself was transparent; as long as you were sufficiently sharp-eyed, you could see as far as you liked. But the farther you looked, the more mysterious it became.

Liu Cixin