William James Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The amygdala is one of those brain structures that a lot of people know a little bit about, and there's a definite tendency to conflate the amygdala and the fear response itself - as if the amygdala, and the amygdala alone, 'causes' fear.
Sam Kean
-
You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
Garth Ennis
-
I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.
Joanne Rowling
-
There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
Adam Lambert
-
Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
P. J. O'Rourke
-
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
-
That's my hunger. If I start to relax, and I lose that, then I had better stop my football. I need that hunger. I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
-
I'm more comfortable performing in front of 50,000 people than five people - it's easier. When there's that many people, I feel like I'm alone. When I perform in front of only a few people, it's scary.
Sam Smith
-
Occasionally, you'll get a 'District 9,' a film that is politically charged, but there is nothing going on beneath the surface with a lot of horror films. They are not about anything.
Edgar Wright
-
Why have one chandelier when you can have two?
Candice Olson
-
I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.
Nate Silver
-
Love is an affection which carries the attention of the mind beyond itself, and is the sense of a relation to some fellow creature as to its object.
Adam Ferguson
-
I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.
Annie Lennox
Eurythmics
-
I haven't traveled in Africa nearly as much as I'd like to. I've been there a few times, and I'd like to learn more about the various cultures in Africa. But that's the basis point of where all of the music that I love is based upon, from Africa to Cuba to Puerto Rico to South America.
Chick Corea
-
There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte
-
Murder investigations start with the victim, because usually in the first instance that's all you've got. The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with an 'ology' tacked on the end. To make sure you make a proper fist of this, the police have developed the world's most useless mnemonic - 5 x W H & H - otherwise known as Who? What? Where? When? Why? and How? Next time you watch a real murder investigation on the TV, and you see a group of serious-looking detectives standing around talking, remember that what they're actually doing is trying to work out what sodding order the mnemonic is supposed to go in. Once they've sorted that out, the exhausted officers will retire to the nearest watering hole for a drink and a bit of a breather.
Ben Aaronovitch
-
We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.
Napoleon Hill
-
To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.
William James
