"If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once."

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Source : Hollis Frampton, Bruce Jenkins (2009). “On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton”, p.243, MIT Press

Hollis Frampton

#Fire Quotes #Nerves Quotes #Neurons Quotes

“I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.”

Source : Irena Sendler's letter to the Polish Senate (2007), as quoted in "Irena Sendler, Lifeline to Young Jews, Is Dead at 98" by Dennis Hevesi, www.nytimes.com. May 13, 2008.
“Woman! thou loveliest gift that here below Man can receive, or Providence bestow.”

Source : Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1886). “Poems”
“In every book I ever wrote the point was to do as much as you could after coming to terms with your limitations.”

Source : Stephen Elliott (2010). “The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder (Large Print 16pt)”, p.237, ReadHowYouWant.com
“A lot of people, I think, would love to see the earth from above, wear a spacesuit. Certainly, when I was a kid, I wanted to wear a spacesuit.”

Source : "Julie Payette returns to space". Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. February 4, 2009.
“Abuse of power comes as no surprise”

Source : Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”
“Helena (Bonham Carter) is one of the coolest kindest women I've ever met. We had so much fun. She has the best sense of humor. I loved her fairy godmother. It came at a point during night shoots where I was exhausted. It was trippy, weird and cold ... and then Helena showed up. It was like this bright light on the horizon; it was wonderful.”
“Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.”

Source : "T.I. thanks fans for supporting no mercy" by Mawuse Ziegbe, www.mtv.com. December 15, 2010.

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