"I need a sample of your blood,' said Kira. Marcus raised an eyebrow. 'I didn't know we'd reached that stage of our relationship."

-- Dan Wells

#Blood Quotes #Eyebrows Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice.”

Source : Nancy Mairs (1994). “Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (woman) Writer”, Beacon Press (MA)
“The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.”
“(on grief) And you do come out of it, thatâ€™s true. After a year, after five. But you donâ€™t come out of it like a train coming out of a tunnel, bursting through the downs into sunshine and that swift, rattling descent to the Channel; you come out of it as a gull comes out of an oil-slick. You are tarred and feathered for life.”
“It is an illusion to think that the matter cannot be resolved through words.”
“I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.”
“I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something it has to feel right. Everything has to be right. I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with. No compromises. Let's put it this way: compromises are from hell.”

Source : "Mads Mikkelsen: I never plan my career". Cover Media Interview, sg.news.yahoo.com. April 24, 2014.
“There are only two conditions where youâ€™re allowed to wake up a woman on a lie-in: itâ€™s snowing or the death of a celebrity.”
“Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has with the world, a corresponding event between a particular cell in the brain and some other cell carrying the information from the outside word must result in reinforcement of the connection between those cells. These day, this is known as a Hebbian synapse, but von Hayek quite independently came upon the idea. I think the essence of his analysis still remains with us.”

Source : "Through a Computer Darkly: Group Selection and Higher Brain Function". Gerald Edelman, "Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences", Volume 36, No. 1 (p. 25), www.jstor.org. October 1982.

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