#non

We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart. ↗

— Hans Berger

#continuous #exactly #heart #individual #nerve

Any reaction is better than none. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#better #none #reaction #than

Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously. ↗

— Gerald Clarke

#capote #journalism #non-fiction #seriously #taken

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff. ↗

— Andy Richter

#i #lot #nonfiction #prefer #read

My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America seems to have no problem with that. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#america #debate #died #engage #family

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#men #nonsense #now #now and then #then

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did. ↗

— George Saunders

#did #generation #generous #genres #intelligence

Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand. ↗

— Ferdowsi

#could #elephants #helmet #host #jewels

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#city #every #exile #more #new

I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#appealing #famous #famous people #i #kind