Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. S. Byatt

I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.

E. O. Wilson

We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have progressed enough to explain ourselves in these mechanistic terms...the result might be hard to accept.

Francis Crick

You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.

Gerald Edelman

Most theoretical work since the proposals of Hebb (1949) and Hayek (1952) has relied upon particular forms of dependent synaptic rules in which either pre- or postsynaptic change is contingent upon closely occurring events in both neurons taking part in the synapse.

Gregory Bateson

Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons A and B.

Stephen Hawking

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.

Dionne Warwick

I am a combination of my entire family.

Iyanla Vanzant

You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all.

Ginnifer Goodwin

One time I had too many Heinekens and I googled myself and realized that that was a very, very bad combination.

Patty Loveless

I'm a combination of Linda Ronstadt, Loretta Lynn and Ralph Stanley.

Pat Summitt

I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.

Martin Feldstein

Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

Mahatma Gandhi

A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm a combination of the Terminator and Bambi.

Swami Vivekananda

Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha.

China Chow

I used to be more glamorous.

Dee Dee Ramone

I used to be a hairdresser.

Diego Luna

Definitely directing is the thing I like the most because this is where everything you know can be used. It's the most personal process ever. It's the most demanding one, but again, rewarding.

Dick Cavett

I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.

Dennis Miller

I used to be sceptic, but not anymore, because now I am positive that I'm getting screwed.

Edwin Moses

I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing.

Bernard Ebbers

I used practically all the money I had available.

Chesley Sullenberger

It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.

Bob Saget

Friend of mine just told me he used to be a bad alcoholic. I calmed him down. Told him he was a good alcoholic just a horrible drinker.