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I have two brain cells left, and one of them is busy reminding me to buy toilet paper.


Diana Gabaldon

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All right you bloody Scottish bastard, lets see how stubborn you really are.
DIANA GABALDON I can tell you, going out to buy toilet paper in the U.S. is a completely predictable experience.
EVAN OSNOS Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of the...
DAVID EAGLEMAN I like getting toilet paper thrown at me.
JOEL MADDEN It gets real costly if all of a sudden we have to buy toilet paper. Stuff like milk and meat can run...
CHRIS MEGISON I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth somet...
WILL CHAMPION Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever.
UNKNOWN Like when I'm in the bathroom looking at my toilet paper, I'm like 'Wow! That's toilet paper?' I don...
ALICIA SILVERSTONE Like when I'm in the bathroom looking at my toilet paper, I'm like 'Wow! That's toilet paper?' I don...
PETER NIVIO ZARLENGA When somebody follows you 20 blocks to the pharmacy, where they watch you buy toilet paper, you know...
JENNIFER ANISTON Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.
RICHARD SAUNDERS Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.
FREDERICK SAUNDERS Unfortunately I had to leave my favorite paper supplier because their toilet paper costs went out of...
JENNIFER SMITH Most of our brain cells are glial cells, once thought to be mere support cells, but now understood a...
THOMAS R. INSEL I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right thin...
RANBIR KAPOOR My brain cells are dying in their trillions.
TOM STOPPARD Toilet paper unrolled and slithered
then wrapped around my tummy.
That paper tried to roll...
MELINDA K. TROTTER You're the man who stands on the street corner with a roll of toilet paper, and written on each squa...
KURT VONNEGUT When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the ...
CHINESE PROVERB When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the ...
CHINESE PROVERBS I don't like having two versions (of a DVD). People will buy the first one and not buy the second, a...
ROBERT RODRIGUEZ If you can market smut and toilet paper, you can market movies.
DAWN STEEL When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no...
DIANA GABALDON If I were marooned here till it suited my overbearing, domineering, pig-headed jackass of a husband ...
DIANA GABALDON And what's wrong wi' the way ye smell?' he said heatedly. 'At least ye smelt like a woman, not a dam...
DIANA GABALDON Wait, wait. I don't get it.'

'That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells...
JOHN GREEN Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells wi...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you'v...
J.K. ROWLING May your life be long and useful like a roll of toilet paper.
UNKNOWN Please wipe your vagina good and wash it good. There is nothing more unattractive then your man find...
NERISSA IRVING Jason once told me that eye contact is the most intimacy two people can have -- forget sex -- becaus...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper.
DAPHNE ZUNIGA I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.
DR. SEUSS I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.
DR. SEUSS I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells.
DOCTOR SEUSS Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all g...
LORRIE MOORE Being busy is better than being bored. Bored left a long time ago. Busy is always around for me.
TABITHA ROBIN Babies have millions of brain cells. They are like light bulbs waiting to be turned on. Don't wa...
TONY BUZAN We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids 'Timmy Has Two Dads'. Except I don't thi...
CASSANDRA CLARE We cannot buy it. We are too poor. Then men who have made the law have taken our own drink from us, ...
NEIL M. GUNN There's a deep underlying unpredictability to life that is thrilling. In China, my wife would sa...
EVAN OSNOS I've done roles that aren't written for somebody who's a dwarf, ... I think it's just bad writing if...
PETER DINKLAGE If you're embarking around the world in a hot-air balloon, don't forget the toilet paper.
RICHARD BRANSON It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twe...
ROD SERLING It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twe...
ROD STERLING As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.
HARUKI MURAKAMI The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world and the other ...
SCOTT CAAN Great rolls of toilet paper arc like ejaculate through the black sycamores.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
ERASMUS I have to keep reminding my students, asking them, "What is your experience of listening to this? Do...
JAMES TENNEY I told my mother everything.She explained the effect drugs would have on my body,how many brain cell...
NICOLE KIDMAN We're stuck in the woods. People have ran out of money buying food. This is unbelievable. You have t...
ELEANOR MEYER Alcohol kills brain cells slowly, but that never bothered me because I'm not in a hurry.
ANONYMOUS The fossil showing two swarm cells in fused position and shedding of their flagella is evidence that...
RANJIT K. KAR If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily
CHINESE PROVERBS France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER I have been in there with all of them and there is nothing left for me to prove.
LENNOX LEWIS Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.
PRINCESS OF WALES DIANA I live with three boys, and I can't tell you how hard it is to get your hands on toilet paper. T...
MARGOT ROBBIE Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years.
CHARLES HERMITE Diana had a high thin voice that used to annoy me. Eddie too, ... We'd say, 'Why don't we let Mary (...
LAMONT DOZIER I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
DR. SEUSS My mind is like the Titanic, to many brain cells for the life boats.
STEVE MERRICK France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER In regular cells, like in bone and blood, the cells divide. But brain cells do not normally divide. ...
DANILO TAGLE Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer ...
CHRISTIAN BALE The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I always like to keep busy, otherwise my brain starts ticking.
NICHOLAS HOULT (...) But Gaia had absorbed the new information. "I won't need to kill billions, Diana. When Nemesis...
MICHAEL GRANT I read once that, on average, we replace the majority of our cells every seven years. Even more amaz...
NICOLA YOON The beauty of this is you can use the stem cells as the Trojan horse. And once you put them in the b...
CLIVE SVENDSEN 'I only got two beers left. 'You can have one.' How nice is that?
KID ROCK Love is like a forest, I think as I kill trees by squandering toilet paper while “decorating” my...
JAROD KINTZ I write amongst the stars, and the canvased paper moon. I paint the fields of green, sprinkling morn...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN Come live with us, Diana. Don't argue. Just say yes."
Diana looked at the ground to hide her em...
MICHAEL GRANT I catch them, I buy them and people give them to me as gifts.
DON EHLEN You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right s...
BILL LEE A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits...
HENRY MARKRAM You can't understand me in one or two days, I have spent a thousands of them.
ARVIND YADAV In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life...
INGRID BETANCOURT If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply...
LUIS BUñUEL The theory behind previous research is that people with higher education have a higher brain or cogn...
DR NIKOLAOS SCARMEAS The theory behind previous research is that people with higher education have a higher brain or cogn...
DR. NIKOLAOS SCARMEAS That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding; as she was walking up the aisle and he...
BRUCE OLDFIELD If, of thy mortal goods, thou art bereft, And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are le...
MUSLIH-UDDIN SADI Previously we've had just the two cells down there and for a population of this size those two cells...
ERIC TAYLOR I told them this is not your regular case. I told them I lost a high-tech toilet seat. The detective...
HAMID SHOUSHTARI Saturated fat is a fundamental building block for brain cells. It's certainly interesting to con...
DAVID PERLMUTTER After shopping for one or two hours, customers want to visit the toilet and if toilet not good, they...
JACK SIM With $5, you can now buy one share of Citigroup and have enough left over for a bite at McDonald’s...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Ew. Someone put the dog out, "Rosalie murmured wrinkling her nose.
Have you herd this one, Psyc...
STEPHENIE MEYER You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right s...
BILL LEE This is a well-studied part of the brain. These are large cells that weren't really hiding.
BEN W. STROWBRIDGE I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing some...
PAULA POUNDSTONE When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes.
ERASMUS I always said if I could figure out a way to grow Kleenex and toilet paper on trees, we could pull t...
JOEL SALATIN I became part of your fantasy, hoping that one day you would become part of mine!
FRANCESCA MULONE

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DIANA GABALDON (...) When I asked my Da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd h...
DIANA GABALDON Really love him, I mean," Geilie persisted. "Not just to bed him; I know you want that, and he does ...
DIANA GABALDON My own eyes went to Jamie, who had come to join Fergus and Ian by the sideboard. Still here, thank G...
DIANA GABALDON Take off your shirt," I said, sitting up and pulling at the hem of the garment.

"Why?" he...
DIANA GABALDON Jaime, you must be half-dead"

He laughed tiredly, holding me close with one large warm ha...
DIANA GABALDON ...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished ...
DIANA GABALDON For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he sai...
DIANA GABALDON Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for...
DIANA GABALDON Grey sat in his bedchamber, unshaven and attired in his nightshirt, banyan, and slippers, drinking t...
DIANA GABALDON I stagger out of bed, take the dogs outside, and then I'll get a Diet Coke and a couple of dog b...
DIANA GABALDON When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I ...
DIANA GABALDON I regarded him gently over my own bowl of stew. He was very large, solid, and beautifully formed. An...
DIANA GABALDON When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last word...
DIANA GABALDON Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people.
DIANA GABALDON I am a sassenach, after all,” I said, seeing it. He touched my face briefly with a rueful smile. �...
DIANA GABALDON Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow....
DIANA GABALDON I fought back the memory of our wedding night. He was a virgin; his hands trembled when he touched m...
DIANA GABALDON Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.
DIANA GABALDON A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!
DIANA GABALDON Lord, he’d said. Let me be enough. That prayer had lodged in my heart like an arrow when I’d hea...
DIANA GABALDON Let me be enough,
DIANA GABALDON When a man dies, it’s only him,” he said. “And one is much like another. Aye, a family needs a...
DIANA GABALDON Come to bed, a nighean. Nothing hurts when ye love me.” He was right; nothing did.
DIANA GABALDON Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some ...
DIANA GABALDON Where d'ye think he is now?" Jenny said suddenly. "Ian, I mean."
He glanced at the house, then ...
DIANA GABALDON That dog is a wolf, is he not?'

'Aye, well, mostly.'

A small flash of hazel to...
DIANA GABALDON When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened ...
DIANA GABALDON For a long time," he said at last, "when I was small, I pretended to myself that I was the bastard o...
DIANA GABALDON A man’s life had to have more purpose than only to feed himself each day.
DIANA GABALDON Oh, foisted, is it?" cried Mr. Ormiston in righteous indignation. "Such a word! And if it means what...
DIANA GABALDON When a man dies, it’s only him,” he said. “And one is much like another. Aye, a family needs a...
DIANA GABALDON I feel maybe like you did,” he whispered to her, too low to wake her. “When ye came through the ...
DIANA GABALDON Does your knee still hurt, Sassenach?” he asked, seeing me rub it. It hadn’t ever quite recovere...
DIANA GABALDON This is the thin time, when the beloved dead draw near. The world turns inward, and the chilling air...
DIANA GABALDON You do mean it, then,” I said. “You feel … er … betrothed to her?” “Well, of course ...
DIANA GABALDON And in the end, it does not matter. I am what God has made me, and must deal with the Times in which...
DIANA GABALDON Men are made in God's image, or so I am told. Likewise that we differ from the animals in having rea...
DIANA GABALDON Do ye not understand?"he said, in near desparation. "I would lay the world at your feet, Claire-and ...
DIANA GABALDON Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really ...
DIANA ROSS The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
DIANA VREELAND I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.
DIANA KRALL Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
DIANA VREELAND I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
PRINCESS DIANA What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
PRINCESS DIANA