Quotes About Associations

All music is just a collision of sounds until you know its internal conventions and understand the nuances. It's a question of familiarity.

People are lazy when they cast. It's natural to think of the most obvious fit to your character.

The associations of signs, whether it be strong or weak, is what distinguishes us humans from the other animals. Rather, it is what makes us complex, problematical, and unpredictable beings.

He sounded time-lagged, but probably wasn't. All of Lady Schrapnell's new recruits sound time-lagged.

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

Any time I'm at work at 2:00 a.m., it's either PEBKAC or Microsloth.

I'm always a bit shy around evil people...

Numbers in roman type refer to illustrations in the Photos section; numbers in italics refer to book pages.

It is not greed that drives the world but envy.

These changes in stroke volume are due to alterations in circulating blood volume and systemic vascular resistance. Circulating

Garris had pet names for all of them. Mahler was the Mad Doktor. Franz Liszt was Son of Lovecraft. Mendelssohn was Santa Claus Meets the Hell's Angels. Beethoven was the High School Principal.

When you are depressed, you have a chemical imbalance in your brain. Thoughts trigger emotions, which dump an overload of stress chemicals into the brain. There is a chemical consequence in the brain for every thought we think. Depression can be short-circuited temporarily by the brain-switching process. It's a way of restoring the chemical balance. The thoughts that create depression connect with one's memory banks, which have emotional associations. In

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

We humans are a most delightful mélange of energy patterns or selves.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.

wasn't nearly as high-tech as the one at Blackthorn's headquarters.

Eve had to admire her for that jab. Simone wasn't intimidated and she was also right. Nepotism wasn't a good look, either.

I'm not a math tutor," I said. "I don't feel the need to check your work.

In the NFL, 31 players have been arrested just since the Super Bowl. In fact, a lot of teams are switching to the no-huddle offense because players aren't allowed to associate with known felons.

with all these serial killer Waynes, anyway? Wayne Williams. John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Patrick Wayne Hearney, who dismembered thirty-two human beings on the West Coast.

understood why Roland had been so agreeable to Brennan's idea of a raid.

Albany had declared that "All friends shall taste / The wages of their virtue, and all foes / The cup of their deservings" (24.297–99).

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

Common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood's romantic delicacy.