Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Close up your head; your brain is getting loose.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Brain
  • Same
  • Memory

• What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Voice
  • Head
  • Realize

• Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Death
  • Head
  • Pure

• Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Brain
  • Eye
  • Everything

• On 'Oz' one day, I got a chunk of a camera embedded in my head, and I was passed out on the floor geysering blood while the set medic stood over me, freaking out. No help whatsoever. I ended up going to the ER and getting nine stitches in my head – real Frankenstein stitches.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Help
  • Me
  • Day

• Mimicking the intricacies of the human brain, a neuro-inspired computer would work in a fashion similar to the way neurons and synapses communicate. It could potentially learn or develop memory.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Work
  • Fashion
  • Brain

• The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Good
  • Understanding
  • Brain

• I secretly want to shave my head.

  

  Zendaya
  • Want
  • Head
  • Shave

• Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Running
  • Yoga
  • Head

• The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • True
  • Brain
  • Fact

• I wish there was an on & off switch for my brain. I think too fucking much.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Wish
  • Brain

• Our story of evolution ended with a stirring in the brain-organ of the latest of Nature's experiments; but that stirring of consciousness transmutes the whole story and gives meaning to its symbolism. Symbolically it is the end, but looking behind the symbolism it is the beginning.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Nature
  • Brain
  • Beginning

• You borrow my brain for 5 seconds, and just be like 'Dude, can't handle it, unplug this bastard', because it fires in a way that is, I don't know, maybe not from this particular terrestrial realm.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • Brain

• I'm tired of pretending like I'm not bitching, a total … rock star from Mars, and people can't figure me out; they can't process me. I don't expect them to. You can't process me with a normal brain. (The Today Show)

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • People
  • Today
  • Rock

• I love libraries, as anyone who has a brain does.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Brain

• I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did.

  

  Brian Setzer Stray Cats
  • People
  • Brain
  • Cat

• When a child knows that he or she is dyslexic, that it's the way their brain is programmed, and it's not their fault, that makes all the difference in the world.

  

  Philip Schultz
  • World
  • She
  • Brain

• It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body; time they ceased their fratricidal strife and, uniting their mighty forces under the flag of Progress, completed the conquest of the world and doomed Poverty, Ignorance and Vice... Unless labor is employed, capital cannot increase - it cannot concentrate. Unless property rights are held inviolable and capital thereby encouraged to high enterprise, labor is left without a lever with which to lift itself to perfect life and must sink back to barbarism.

  

  William Cowper Brann
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Brain

• There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Nothing
  • Dignity
  • Broadway

• Some days, I know beauty techniques like it's my job, and other days I can't do my makeup for the life of me. So I find it easiest to just put on mineral veil and a little mascara and call it a day. I use Physician's Formula and Bare Minerals every day of my life.

  

  Christian Serratos
  • Life
  • Job
  • Makeup

• There's no magic solution for us, we just don't have the resources at the moment. The guys we've got here are the best front-rowers in Australia at the moment.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Magic
  • Moment
  • Australia

• Most people I know feel that life would be complete if they could just lose ten pounds.

  

  Betty Jane Wylie
  • Life
  • Lose
  • Pounds

• Close up your head; your brain is getting loose.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Brain
  • Head
  • Loose