Walter Cannon Quotes

#1. Nobody deserves to go to the World Series more than the Chicago Cubs. But they can't go because that would spoil their custom of never going. It is an irreconcilable paradox.

Bill Bryson

#2. In their "deep" objectives - in what they evolved to do - humans are not qualitatively different from other living organisms. Like other living things, they evolved to get and use resources to survive and enhance the spread of their genes.

Bobbi S. Low

#3. Time ... is an essential requirement for effective research. An investigator may be given a palace to live in, a perfect laboratory to work in, he may be surrounded by all the conveniences money can provide; but if his time is taken from him he will remain sterile.

Walter Bradford Cannon

#4. I will always remember you, even though you had no idea I was even in the room. My words wouldn't come, I could only dream. A crush or a love?

Walter Bradford Cannon

#5. If you hate my guts and have designs to hurt me, and I see you building a cannon aimed at my house, I am not going to wait for you to finish construction.

Walter E. Williams

#6. I'm supposed to hate you for what you did, I think. But her eyes linger on me in a way that refuses to let me.

Marie Lu

#7. Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.

Ross Perot

#8. Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.

Henri Rousseau

#9. Chance throws peculiar conditions in everyone's way. If we apply intelligence, patience and special vision, we are rewarded with new creative breakthroughs.

Walter Bradford Cannon

#10. Anger is an emotion preeminently serviceable for the display of power.

Walter Bradford Cannon

#11. I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war - which is international sports and I suppose motorcycle races - to encourage the secretion of the adrenal glands!

James McKeen Cattell

#12. He had worked for an entire year to make a dream come true, and that dream, minute by minute, was becoming less important. Maybe because that wasn't really his dream.

Paulo Coelho

#13. It's a swell theory," I said. "Marriott socked me, took the money, then he got sorry and beat his brains out, after first burying the money under a bush.

Raymond Chandler

#14. I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.

Milos Zeman

#15. Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process.

Ursula Burns

#16. What's that smell?" Reynolds asked.
That smell is the stuff they grow mushrooms in."
DeForrest sniffed the air. "Shit?" he asked.
Captain Suzie shrugged. "Manure.

David Wellington