Bill Crawford Quotes

Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body melatonin - It is not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.

Bill Crawford

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• I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Brain
  • Opinion
  • Speak

• The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Life
  • Home
  • Rock

• Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • Brain
  • Body
  • Evidence

• Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting
  • Know

• For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Think
  • Change
  • Brain

• Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my head as I'm running. Running literally jogs my brain.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Done

• I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Rest

• We really should be grateful to the people who participate in research and allow certain details to be published about themselves. Because if they didn't, we wouldn't have nearly the understanding of the brain that we do.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Brain

• The red thought rose up inside Blaine’s brain: Why not kill him now?For the killing would come easy. He was an easy man to hate. Not on principle alone, but personally, clear down to his guts.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Up
  • Why
  • Hate

• I saw Bobby Green and Lando Vannata, and everybody in the back was like, 'Oh, man, that's a sick fight!' And I'm like, 'Dude, look at his face, that cannot be good for his brain.' I'm just honest.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Good
  • Brain
  • Sick

• 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

• I really don't mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thing. I don't need the approval of people. I don't need people to think I'm intelligent. And I'm not that intelligent.

  

  Alice Eve
  • People
  • Mind
  • Brain

• I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of... I call it brain vomit. It's kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I'm unabashedly just writing it down.

  

  Emmy Rossum
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Brain

• The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Write

• The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

  

  Bill Viola
  • Earth
  • Single
  • Brain

• I was going through some stressful stuff, and I lost feeling in my face and in my tongue. So I went to a doctor. He said he didn't think I had MS or a brain tumor. He said, 'I think you're just stressed out.'

  

  Lisa Cholodenko
  • Feeling
  • Lost
  • Brain

• Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

  

  Childe Hassam
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Brain

• Most women say 'Please speak to me from the waist up: my brain, my eyes.'

  

  Kellyanne Conway
  • Up
  • Women
  • Eyes

• The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.

  

  Chris Evans
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Trying

• Calories from protein affect your brain, your appetite control center, so you are more satiated and satisfied.

  

  Mark Hyman
  • Control
  • Brain

• Writing 'Redeployment' shook me in ways I never expected.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Writing

• Many people, companies, and organizations are trying to protect the past at any cost. We see this regularly in business as the incumbent vs. innovator fight, but I think it's more profound than that. It's literally a difference in point of view.

  

  Brad Feld
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Question

• Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body melatonin - It is not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Brain
  • Melatonin
  • Chemical change