"Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else."

-- Jarvis Cocker

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Brain Quotes

“I believe the power of Economics is to help provide a unique lens for looking at the world.”
“Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.”
“Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe”
“Again its time to pray for peace.”
“Talking's just a nervous habit.”

Source : Martha Grimes (2013). “The Deer Leap”, p.108, Simon and Schuster
“A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.”

Source : Attributed to Ames, speaking in the House of Representatives, 1795; quoted by R. W. Emerson in 'Essays' (2nd series, 1844) no. 7, but not traced in Ames's speeches
“Until I became a parent, I thought children just naturally knew how to catch a ball, that catching was an instinctive biological reflex that all children are born with, like knowing how to operate a remote control or getting high fevers in distant airports.”
“A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.”

You may also like:

Charlotte Gainsbourg
Actress
Damon Albarn
Musician
Graham Coxon
Musician
Jonny Greenwood
Musician
Leonard Cohen
Singer-songwriter
Marianne Faithfull
Singer
Noel Gallagher
Musician
Rufus Wainwright
Singer
Richard Hawley
Guitarist