Gerald Fischbach Quotes

Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed.

Gerald Fischbach

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• A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Power
  • Healing
  • Medical

• Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Science
  • Powerful

• Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Criticism
  • Sympathy
  • Universities

• I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Family
  • Night
  • Change

• I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Good
  • Peace
  • Wish

• I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Real
  • Want
  • Just

• One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

  

  Man Ray
  • Power
  • Genius
  • His

• Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • High
  • Fashion

• When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Beautiful

• The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Challenges
  • Situation

• I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Never
  • Chance
  • Wanted

• The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Up
  • World
  • Down

• A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Law
  • Horse
  • Lawyer

• I finally, you know, moved to Mexico City, where the film industry is. I started working there as a producer, which is a very, very valid thing for women to do, because we always produce for men, right?

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Men
  • Women
  • City

• How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • Live
  • Simple

• I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • Think
  • Game
  • Tennis

• Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Credit
  • Apple

• No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Life
  • Education
  • Pain

• With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.

  

  Chris Brown
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Trust

• Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Science

• You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you are doing a rarefied type of brain surgery and therefore should not be subject to a million random interruptions.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• I do not like producers.

  

  Fritz Lang

• Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of mental crack-up. Yes, if we were childish in the past, I wish we could be children once again.

  

  Anita Loos
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Children

• Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed.

  

  Gerald Fischbach
  • Life
  • Memory
  • Scaffolding