Oliver Sacks Quotes

With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.

Oliver Sacks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: July 9, 1933 - August 30, 2015

Topics

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London is very fashion-forward. Everyone's very stylish, and the designers are great. It's very my style, grungy and feminine - a bit of everything.

Jessica Hart

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From the 1920s through to the 1970s, bridal was related to the fashion of the times. Then in the 1980s, it became more historical, decadent, and ornate.

Jenny Packham

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Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.

John Jay Hooker

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I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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I actually cannot stand a room without a view - I would rather have a bedroom the size of a closet with a view over a suite without one.

Amy Landecker

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I was a Nancy Drew girl. Also Grimms' fairy tales.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Churches need to be intentional about reaching the next generation by creating templates for young people to see that there is a stepping stone for leadership in this church.

Tony Evans

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I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Progress is a choice.

Martin O'Malley

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I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.

Dhani Harrison

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Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement.

Denise Juneau

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I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.

Deborah Norville

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