Quotes About Associations

The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.

The spiritual (i.e. the supersensory) has many degrees; thus, the term 'spiritual' is used both for the scale of degrees away from the physical towards the spirit, but also only for the spiritual proper.

I might be being controversial, but I think Seal fancies the pants off Delta, and her pants are tight.

My own heart's secrecy been his, my cat insanities of night.

I have come to prefer the French word jouissance, with its associations of both playfulness (jouer – to play) and joy.

It is not my job to sit down and read peer-reviewed papers because I simply haven't got the time ... I am an interpreter of interpretations.

Clary: "Aren't they supposed to be hiring someone else to train me full-time anyway?"

Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.

The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time.

It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron.

searching everywhere? Shouldn't they be extra alert, not

The Egyptian mode, for example, often led the squire to think the Egyptians must have had a very uncomfortable time of it.

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

Master mechanics were as eccentric and idiosyncratic as Episcopal priests

One's associations with people are regulated as much by what they stand for, as by what they are, individual characteristics becoming from time to time submerged in more general implications.

any time we're in an intense emotional state, when we're feeling strong sensations of pain or pleasure, anything unique that occurs consistently will become neurologically linked.

We know the dear old rhyme: — "It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.

CHAPTER XVII LORD RUFFORD'S INVITATION

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom. Perhaps

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.

I hope you and your partners have more luck than we have water in our river.

It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations that surround him. Taught from earliest childhood, by all that he sees and hears, that the rod is for the slave's back, he will not be apt to change his opinions in maturer years.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.