Quotes
Authors
Kay Redfield Jamison
"Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings." --
Kay Redfield Jamison
#Memories Quotes
#Desire Quotes
#Impulse Quotes
“I found golf late in life, in 1990. I took some lessons and struggled. Then one day, I hit a drive that was so crisp and clean, with no vibration. There's no feeling like it. I was hooked.”
“But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs.”
“Ever since I was a little kid I was obsessed with films, and I always wanted to make them”
“Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the being that suffers. How bad a pain is depends on how intense it is and how long it lasts, but pain of the same intensity and duration are equally bad, whether felt by humans or animals.”
“Lindsay Lohan's collaboration was a disaster. I am furious but I can't do anything about it. That happens to a lot of designers. We were the creators and patrons, responsible for the creation and destiny of our houses. But when we gave up our houses, we gave up our souls.”
“I suspect the popularity of young adults and dystopian novels has something to do with a desire for allegory and old-fashioned morality tales. In fact, you might find your religious framework here in dystopian, post-apocalyptic fiction. Here, and in videogames, you find strict codes of authority, the "rules of the game," the life-or-death quest and struggle that people crave.”
Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.”
“In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.”
