Nicolas Steno Quotes

We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and ought still more to admire their disposition in the Brain, where an infinite number of them contained in a very small Space, do each execute their particular Offices without confusion or disorder.

Nicolas Steno

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• I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Happy
  • Thankful

• If I do a certain number of ads, I have to do a personal project in between, just for my own sanity. I still consider myself a punk-rock kid.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Myself
  • Rock
  • Kid

• From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • More
  • Relative
  • Skydiving

• We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Why
  • She
  • Help

• War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Suffering
  • Physical

• The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Faith

• Our D.V.R.s make up the schedule of the shows that we're passionate about. You want Jon Stewart? You've got it. Your D.V.R. will give that to you, as opposed to making the destination and the choice to spend that evening with a network.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Up
  • Want
  • Choice

• That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • World
  • Science
  • End

• I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis.

  

  Cy Twombly
  • Greek

• At the risk of being repetitious, I would remind the group that we have found the highest frequency of induced abortion in the group which, in general, most frequently uses contraceptives.

  

  Alfred Kinsey
  • Risk

• Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

  

  Alan Ball

• I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

  

  Penelope Ann Miller
  • Children
  • Family
  • Ambition

• I have been interested in beauty from an early age. My sister used to put face masks on me and do me up with my mother's makeup!

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Age

• I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • Good

• The government shouldn't step in at the first stage and create land banks. Industry should buy the land as much as they can, and if they get stuck, then the government should step in.

  

  Jamshyd Godrej

• I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City.

  

  Paulina Rubio
  • City

• I'm not sure it's a better music world of appreciation and performance. I think the listener is a different guy, and listening is something he does in passing, with other stuff going on. There's less care and understanding of the relationship between the song and the listener.

  

  Al Jarreau
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• I got into this thing called the National Youth Theatre, and to me, that was all about the status quo. It seemed to me like 'Downton Abbey' - all the working-class and black people were playing servants, or the gravedigger in 'Hamlet,' and the boys from Eton and posh private schools got Hamlet, all the big roles.

  

  DeObia Oparei
  • People
  • Black
  • Theatre

• The reason for living is to have great relationships, to have people you love and respect and who love and respect you.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Great
  • Respect

• Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it.

  

  Haile Gerima
  • Movie

• We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Responsibility
  • Need
  • Take

• Market timing, by the way, is a tag some buy-and-hold investors use to put down anything that involves using your brain. These are the same people who like to watch the locomotive coming and get run down in the name of discipline.

  

  Jeremy Grantham
  • People
  • Brain
  • Discipline

• Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Men
  • Brain
  • Sorrows

• We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and ought still more to admire their disposition in the Brain, where an infinite number of them contained in a very small Space, do each execute their particular Offices without confusion or disorder.

  

  Nicolas Steno
  • Brain
  • Admire
  • Mass