Oliver Sacks: Given her...

Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain needed to stay incessantly active, and if it was not getting its usual stimulation..., it would create its own stimulation in the form of hallucinations.
/Oliver Sacks/

Richelle Mead: I should...

I should go," I said thickly. "Let me know when you want to start practice again. And thanks for...talking."I started to turn; then I heard him say abruptly, "No."I glanced back. "What?"He held my gaze, and something warm and wonderful and powerful shot between us."No," he repeated. "I told her no.""I..." I shut my mouth before my jaw hit the floor. "But...why? That was a once-in-a-lifetime thing. You could have had a baby. And she...she was, you know, into you..."The ghost of a smile flickered on his face. "Yes, she was. Is. And that`s why I had to say no. I couldn`t return that...couldn`t give her what she wanted. Not when..." He took a few steps toward me. "Not when my heart is somewhere else.
/Richelle Mead/

Dalton Trumbo: If the...

If the thing they were fighting for was important enough to die for then it was also important enough for them to be thinking about it in the last minutes of their lives. That stood to reason. Life is awfully important so if you`ve given it away you`d ought to think with all your mind in the last moments of your life about the thing you traded it for. So did all those kids die thinking of democracy and freedom and liberty and honor and the safety of the home and the stars and stripes forever? You`re goddamn right they didn`t.They died crying in their minds like little babies. They forgot the thing they were fighting for the things they were dying for. They thought about things a man can understand. They died yearning for the face of a friend. They died whimpering for the voice of a mother a father a wife a child They died with their hearts sick for one more look at the place where they were born please god just one more look. They died moaning and sighing for life. They knew what was important They knew that life was everything and they died with screams and sobs. They died with only one thought in their minds and that was I want to live I want to live I want to live.He ought to know. He was the nearest thing to a dead man on earth.
/Dalton Trumbo/

Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry is...

Poetry is life distilled.
/Gwendolyn Brooks/

Erin O'Riordan: The point...

The point is that if we accept nature as God?s creation, then it`s ridiculous to think that God could be a male without a female. Asexual, yes. But not a male. It goes against our entire experience of life on Planet Earth. That is, if you think that God would`ve created nature in Her own image.
/Erin O'Riordan/

Lailah Gifty Akita: Every challenge...

Every challenge you encounter is part of the life`s journey. The challenges must be overcome for the vision to be fulfilled.
/Lailah Gifty Akita/

Ernest Becker: The irony...

The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.
/Ernest Becker/

Ibraheem Hamdi: You don`t...

You don`t hunt something that you can live with, you idiot. You can`t have a challenge for a lifetime, it?ll drain you out. You?ll be dead before you even know it. Someone you go all those miles for, someone you change your own skin for, someone you take pride in having managed to impress; is most probably someone you don`t live with. People you can live with are ones who complete your sentences, ones who are too comforting, ones who don`t really urge you to fall off cliffs for them, rather cheer you on by their mere presence; ones who you can exercise silence with, free and unguarded silence.
/Ibraheem Hamdi/

Sainte-Beuve: Nature wants...

Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.
/Sainte-Beuve/

Wilhelm Reich: I do...

I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul.
/Wilhelm Reich/

Harshit Walia: Whole life...

Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.
/Harshit Walia/

Anthony Michael Hall: There've been...

There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it.
/Anthony Michael Hall/

Pierce Brown: Death isn`t...

Death isn`t empty like you say it is. Emptiness is life without freedom, Darrow. Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, of death. I say we break those chains. Break the chains of fear and you break the chains that bind us to the Golds, to the Society. Could you imagine it? Mars could be ours. It could belong to the colonists who slaved here, died here." Her face is easier to see as the night fades through the clear roof. It is alive, on fire. "If you led the others to freedom. The things you could do, Darrow. The things you could make happen." She pauses and I see her eyes are glistening. "It chills me. You have been given so, so much, but you set your sights so low.""You repeat the same damn points," I say bitterly. "You think a dream is worth dying for. I say it isn`t. You say it`s better to die on your feet. I say it`s better to live on our knees.""You`re not even listening!" she snaps. "We are machine men with machine minds, machine lives ?" "And machine hearts?" I ask. "That`s what I am?""Darrow ?" "What do you live for?" I ask her suddenly. "Is it for me? Is it for family and love? Or is it just for some dream?""It`s not just some dream, Darrow. I live for the dream that my children will be born free. That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.""I live for you," I say sadly. She kisses my cheek. "Then you must live for more.
/Pierce Brown/

Archibald Marwizi: The reality...

The reality of life and an imperfect world dictates that things cannot be held constant to guarantee your success; you have to wiggle your way through a planned path within a maze, to attain your goal.
/Archibald Marwizi/

Don A. Martinez: Gabe taps...

Gabe taps Michi on the shoulder. ?I can understand any hesitation on your part, Michika. If you wish, you can stay behind with your family ???Nuh-uh, not a chance!? She brushes Gabe`s hand off of her shoulder. ?If my best friend?s gonna be risking her life to kick New Empire ass, then I wanna be right there with her in my asskickin? boots.
/Don A. Martinez/