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Related Our words are often only vague, inadequate descriptions of our thoughts. Something gets lost in tran... OLIVER GASPIRTZ RALPH WALDO EMERSON LEO TOLSTOY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES ANDREA HAIRSTON FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE Bribery is not only by giving gifts to an organization or person to have your way,but each time you ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Good prose is the selection of the best words; poetry is the best words in the best order; and journ... ALAN BREWER C. JOYBELL C. I have an old brain but a terrific memory. AL LEWIS TONY BUZAN JEFFREY FRY [Memory]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as mu... JOHN DANIEL Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed ... ROSE SAPERSTEIN RICHARD CARLSON CHINUA ACHEBE I'm prepared now to use the wonderful word confluence, which of itself exists as a reality and a sym... EUDORA WELTY ARTHUR MILLER Words and sentences are subject to revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of previ... BARRETT WENDELL WENDELL BERRY Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse... JOHN DESMOND BERNAL LYDIA MILLET FREDERICK BUECHNER LIN YUTANG LIN YUTANG LIN YUTANG Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the go... LYN YUTANG LIN YUTANG ROBERT A. HEINLEIN ALAN PERLIS RICHARD CARLSON WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS GEORGE ELIOT JIM BISHOP memories . If I am going to have a true memory, t... THOMAS MERTON CHARLES DE GAULLE ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A person speaks more about his character through his shared images or uploaded profile picture than ... ANUJ SOMANY Şi, vorbind mai general, oricare ţi-ar fi linia în viaţă, dacă constaţi că alţii nu-ţi pre... BERTRAND RUSSELL, ÎN CăUTAREA FERICIRII PLEASEFINDTHIS WINSTON CHURCHILL SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING WILLIAM SAFIRE It was based on each school having its own computer. That was something of a disadvantage, but we co... BILL SCHOENENBERGER BARBARA KINGSOLVER MARKUS ZUSAK I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist ... GARY JENNINGS ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER GEORGE R.R. MARTIN ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To stand on theASK AND IT IS GIVEN Shuffling or substituting a few words in old quotes perfunctorily to tweak with its syntax and struc... ANUJ SOMANY From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words ... PATRICIA J. WILLIAMS ELIAS CANETTI We are not ‘censored’ in the traditional way in the United States: writers are not beaten or kil... SERGIO TRONCOSO GEORGE STEINER But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the... LOTTE LEHMANN But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the ... LOTTE LEHMANN CRAIG GROESCHEL One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something th... BURKHARD BILGER MAX BARRY UNKNOWN AMY TAN but I am also a lot more that words cant say. words cant convey my voice, or my touch, words only pa... JOHNNY MORPHINE STEPHEN HAWKING DREW BARRYMORE Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbi... WILL EISNER JOSEPH CAMPBELL Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words. REBECCA SOLNIT Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision i... JESSE KELLERMAN A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or gluco... FLOYD SKLOOT I remember Karoi as a very hot, flat place, but in reality, it is all hills. We just lived next to a... ALEXANDRA FULLER Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM STANISLAV GROF CRAIG GROESCHEL The words justice and fairness are pretty sounding words, but they only exist when the outcome is no... BOBBY W. MILLER Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cine... RICHARD KING EZRA POUND RALPH WALDO EMERSON RALPH WALDO EMERSON RALPH WALDO EMERSON ALFRED KORZYBSKI CORMAC MCCARTHY LAUREN MYRACLE TAMMARA WEBBER JULIO CORTáZAR STEVEN JOHNSON LOIS LOWRY Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong. RICHARD KING SIRI HUSTVEDT FRANCINE RIVERS ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ANNE SPOLLEN SOLANGE NICOLE V.C. ANDREWS In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words. KATHLEEN TROIA MCFARLAND
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In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the... 
In everything, almost in everything, I wrote I was guided by the need of collecting ideas which, lin... 
No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. 
Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common ... 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
I used to take formal notes in lines of blue, and underline the key words in red, and I realised I n... 
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. 
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. 
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we se... 
It is a lie. 
The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by ou... 
I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... 
We try so hard as Christians. We think such long thoughts, manipulate such long words, and both list... 
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the ... 
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the go... 
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the go... 
A verbalizing race has words for every old concept . . . and creates new words or new definitions... 
A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words ... 
We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but ima... 
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out ... 
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born,... 
Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, t... 
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our... 
A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here? 
We clutch that picture to our hearts because we expect each other to always be the people in that pi... 
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. 
Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all. 
I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added col... 
Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cat... 
Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that ma... 
And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God t... 
What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arm... 
Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently. 
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the... 
Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in ... 
Attention words. A single word wasn't enough. Not even for a particular segment. The brain had defen... 
A picture is worth a thousand words. 
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings... 
Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which w... 
A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - wh... 
In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life valu... 
The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt. 
There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousnes... 
It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clo... 
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or ... 
We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or ... 
If we do not objectify, and feel instinctively and permanently that words are not the things spoken ... 
He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the wo... 
Mother Superior jump the gun...
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." 
Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we... 
A good idea is a network. A specific constellation of neurons—thousands of them—fire in sync wit... 
He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself 
The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ tha... 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without... 
Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when... 
To believe in God is a good thing, a right thing. But when you reinforce your belief with words you ... 
There was a film class in my high school in Northfield, Minnesota, which was very unusual. I saw my ... 
I have suffered from migraines since childhood and have long been curious about my own aching head, ... 