"We are our brains. My brain is talking to your brain; our bodies are hanging along for the ride."

-- Jeff Hawkins

#Talking Quotes #Brain Quotes #Body Quotes

“Some days,' I say, 'I feel like I don't belong anywhere in that world. That world out there. 'I point to Grant. 'People walk down our street and people drive down it and people ride their bicycles down it and all of them, even the ones I know, could be from another planet. And I'm a visiting alien.' And aliens don't belong anywhere,' Adam finishes for me, 'except in their own little corners of the universe.' Right,' I say. ~pgs 57-58 Hattie and Adam on alienation”

Source : Karen Hesse, Cynthia Rylant, Cynthia Lord, Ann M. Martin (2013). “Scholastic Newbery Collection”, p.388, Scholastic Inc.
“We all seek comfort, and I don't pretend to want to live in squalor.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.”
“I do not remember in my whole life I ever willfully misrepresented anything to anybody at any time. I have never knowingly had connection with a fraudulent scheme.”
“Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.”
“I try not to be overly analytical.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 7, 2010.
“It's an eclectic film and I think we served the novel really well. And we had a great cast who worked for free. Everyone read it and said, I'm in, from Nick [Nolte] to Albert [Finney] to Omar [Epps] to Barbara [Hershey]. We really had fun and shot it in a very short time. I think the subject matter is more topical today, more to the point, than it was 30 years ago, when it concerned the Vietnam War.”
“Blow jobs are okay, but kissing clients is still a taboo.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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