Quotes About Association

You can't hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the brain.

I have lexical-gustatory synesthesia. I can taste, and always have tasted, words. I remember when I was a kid and learning to read I mentioned to my mom that certain words I was learning tasted certain ways, thinking everyone was like that, and didn't understand why she didn't get what I was saying.

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

I think my style as far as vocal delivery and even down to the pronunciation of certain words is so deliberate.

Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a journalist. Somehow as a journalist you know there are Pulitzers out there and you can work hard and get one. To win it for Fiction seems unbelievable.

There were thousands of abolitionists who were free traders.

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.

My boyfriend is Italian and from New Jersey, so naturally he was thrilled to meet Joe Pesci.

To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.

One of the things I was never thrilled about with 'Medal of Honor' was that it was non-stop music.

I'm thrilled to be at a massive club like Bayern Munich.

The horror genre is probably my favorite genre along with psychological thrillers.

If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.

Throughout my career, I've been sponsored by several different equipment companies - Lynx, Titleist, Callaway.

Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch.

There's probably as many rules of thumb to wrestling as anything in the world, and then there's just as many exceptions to every one of those rules because somebody doesn't fit that thumb.

As I am a film personality, I feel it would be best to be an independent candidate. Thus if I decide to contest it won't be under the symbol of any political party.

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

I know there are, like, 12 rules for late night: a desk, a band. Will people take me seriously if I don't wear a tie?

Creating things that people want to tie into their identity is the best way to make them spread.

I don't think anybody in the NFL is tied to each other.

I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team.