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“I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'”
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“Memories shift like loose snow in a wind, or are a chorale of ghosts all talking over one another. There is only ever a sense that what is real to me is not real to others, and to share a memory with someone is to risk sullying my belief in what has truly happened.”
Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.80, Pan Macmillan
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“Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!”
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“Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.”
Source : "Geneticist Cynthia Kenyon is heading to Google" by Stephanie M. Lee, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 2014.
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“When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.”
Source : Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.320, Routledge
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“Keep an eye on that boy... he has potential," Dr Nero.”
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“The peace of the world concerns only body and time but the peace, the joy, that Christ gives enriches the soul for eternity”
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“Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'”