Joshua Foer Quotes

Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.

Joshua Foer

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The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.

Robert Herrick

HomeSoulBodyHousePoorWhose

I have some English words on the first album, but any time I try to do it, you miss something. You think it's just a simple translation from French to English, but it's so different as far as the understanding.

Stromae

TimeSimpleWordsThinkYouTry

It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely, it just takes skilful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present.

Simon Schama

DeterminationHistoryPastCuriosity

I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.

Travis Barker

LovePlayOrangeGotDrumsFour

It's just a very different process from maybe working one or two days a week doing one or two scenes a day versus sustaining a performance over two hours or so eight times a week.

Tom Irwin

DayPerformanceProcessDoingWeek

Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.

Rob Walton

WarWorldAmericaNewNowOrder

I didn't like filtering the story through me, saying, 'Reader, you'll be safe with me. While it gets a little dangerous, it'll be okay because, after all, you're with me, because I'm a warm convivial voice. But let's be entertained by this horrible stuff.' I didn't like that.

Michael Winter

MeSayingVoiceStoryWarmYou

To me, writing is prayer. I pray all the time.

Luis Alberto Urrea

TimePrayerMeWritingPray

The suburbs have this veneer of happiness, you know? This veneer of the ideal life. From afar, it's all together - white picket fence, nice house - but you peel away one little layer, and it all comes crumbling down.

Jason Jones

LifeHappinessTogetherFenceYou

It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence.

Donald Cargill

TimeLongSinSightThirtyNever

You can see these boxes which are covered with metal foils for thermal reasons, and they are also, most of the time, thermally controlled inside to keep reasonable temperature inside each of these containers.

Claude Nicollier

TimeYouInsideSeeMetalBoxes

I could never leave Las Vegas. I can't really afford New York or Los Angeles. I love this town. We don't have that much. We have the Runnin' Rebels and boxer Floyd Mayweather. When Mayweather fights, it's good for the whole city. It's like the Super Bowl out here.

Chumlee

LoveGoodNew YorkCityVegasNew

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