Andrew Solomon Quotes

I'm sure that if we had enough sophistication, someone could look at what my changes in brain structure were as I came to feel more deeply in love.

Andrew Solomon

• Brain
• Gay
• Maybe
• Someday
• Being Gay

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I never said I don't like gay people.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • People
  • Gay
  • Said

• 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

• I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Think
  • Community
  • Gay

• 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

• I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Career
  • Focus
  • Gay

• I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Doubt

• I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Together
  • Gay
  • Three

• Unlike straight men, who have the luxury of being slobs because women usually expect them to be, gay men - whether preppies, fashion victims, or jocks - are thought to be more obsessed with how they look because they dress for themselves and, consequently, for each other.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fashion

• The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Life
  • Love
  • Kids

• Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Fun
  • Words

• I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Just
  • Because
  • Maybe

• Maybe I am just a jerk.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Jerk

• Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Why
  • Man
  • Society

• 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

• I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Think
  • Brain
  • Memory

• The set for 'Blade Runner' was maybe the hardest set I've ever worked on because I think we worked 50 nights in a row, and it was always raining.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Always
  • Maybe

• They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Actor
  • Call
  • Maybe

• I haven't had anyone say, 'No, we can't because he's gay.' In fact, it's been quite the opposite.

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • Gay

• When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • You
  • Rest
  • Blues

• The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • People
  • Up
  • Heart

• Like what you do, and then you will do your best.

  

  Katherine Johnson

• Detachment, lack of sentimentality, originality, a lot of things that sound rather empty. I know what they mean. Let's say, "visual impact" may not mean much to anybody. I could point it out though. I mean it's a quality that something has or does not have. Coherence. Well, some things are weak, some things are strong.

  

  Walker Evans
  • May
  • Strong
  • Quality

• I'm sure that if we had enough sophistication, someone could look at what my changes in brain structure were as I came to feel more deeply in love.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Brain
  • Gay
  • Maybe