#rain

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst. ↗

— William Langewiesche

#faraway #forms #little #many #place

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#argument #bracket #brain #come #dealing

These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people. ↗

— Kevin Ayers

#find #going #joining #jumping #kids

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. ↗

— Enid Bagnold

#doctor #goes #knows #man #much

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#brainwashed #children #dimension #dimensions #google

When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted to replacing individual tissues like blood elements or liver or even the brain. ↗

— David Baltimore

#actually #adult #adult stem cells #blood #brain

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#end of the tunnel #light #sometimes #train #tunnel

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#before #commitments #core #culture #essential

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#efficient #failings #know #know yourself #only

The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit. ↗

— Michael Bay

#because #better #boring #brain #brain surgery