"Our brains are wired to interpret shapes as faces and bodies. That's why people see the Virgin Mary in the clouds or even in cheese sandwiches. It's your cytoplasm, not some strange ectoplasm."

-- Seth Shostak

#Clouds Quotes #People Quotes #Brain Quotes

“There are other sources, but Wikipedia is a good start.”
“Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries.”

Source : "Who Said That?: More than 2,500 Usable Quotes and Illustrations". Book by George Sweeting, p. 101, 1995.
“I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's built on very strong poles.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that”

Source : Boris Yeltsin's speech to the summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Istanbul, news.bbc.co.uk. November 18, 1999.
“Getting hurt and narrowly escaping death is sort of a thing for me.”
“I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it.”
“I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways."”
“When you operate from the Higher Self, you feel centered and abundant?in fact, overflowing. When you experience this abundance, your fears automatically disappear.”

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