"It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm."

“Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that senses the world outside and within, produces love and sorrow, keeps our hearts beating and lungs breathing, composes our thoughts, and constructs our consciousness.”

Source : Carl Zimmer (2014). “Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

“I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life.”

“The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.”

Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

“I like being a musician that's also a fly on the wall. I like people coming in the room and doing what they do and then leaving. I like attention, but it actually gives me a little less to work with as a performer if people are editing themselves and not being them.”

“I work in fashion because the world is such a heavy place that I need to be in this industry that fights for five hours to get a dress.”

“I sometimes wish I weren't as logical as I am and I wish I weren't as smart as I am, because I'd be happy.”

“We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.”

“A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood”

Source : Amy Levy (1889). “Reuben Sachs: A Sketch”