Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

Siri Hustvedt

The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.

Siri Hustvedt

When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor.

Siri Hustvedt

The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the environment.

Siri Hustvedt

Flashbacks rarely involve language. Mine certainly didn't. They were visual, motor, and sensory, and they took place in a relentless, horrifying present.

Siri Hustvedt

Scientists have a tendency to believe in absolutes, in studies and the repeating of them. Psychoanalysis is firmly based in subjective accounts. We need both.

Siri Hustvedt

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy

Siddhartha Mukherjee

To quench my longing I bent me low By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow In that magical wood in the land of sleep.

Sarojini Naidu

It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.

Sharon Olds

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

Sophocles

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Sophocles

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Sophocles

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'

Sophocles

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.

Sophocles

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

Sophocles

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.

Sophocles

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

Sophocles

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

Sophocles