"She went out and took a last long look at the shabby little library. She knew she would never see it again. Eyes changed after they looked at new things. If in the years to be she were to come back, her new eyes might make everything seem different from the way she saw it now. The way it was now was the way she wanted to remember it."

-- Betty Smith

#Eye Quotes #Years Quotes #Long Quotes

“It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.”

Source : "Ed Boyden: The brain is like a computer, and we can fix it with nanorobots". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.
“Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.”
“Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.”
“Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn't a group decision.”
“Persons drinking coffee, as a general rule, eat less, though coffee, and also tea, have little direct food value; but they ***** the waste of the tissues, and so take the place of food.”
“I'll forget about you long enough to forget why I need to”

Source : Song: I Saw, Album: Beneath These Fireworks, 2003
“You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.”
“I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.”

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