Circuits Quotes - Page 10

• A delightful, intelligent read. Jim Zirin's sparkling account of life in the Second Circuit's famed MOTHER COURT is informative, riveting, accessible, and uplifting.  It would be criminal not to read this book.

  Linda Fairstein

  Uplifting, Mother, Book

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• The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Drivers

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• Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer; Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale: Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Ivory, Erotic

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.24

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• They take the circuits out of people’s brains that make it possible for them to think for themselves. Their world is like the one that George Orwell depicted in his novel. I’m sure you realize that there are plenty of people who are looking for exactly that kind of brain death. It makes life a lot easier. You don’t have to think about difficult things, just shut up and do what your superiors tell you to do.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, People, Brain

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• But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say can be reduced to signs that constitute faith? Then the whole system becomes weightless, it is no longer anything but a gigantic simulacrum - not unreal, but simulacrum, that is to say never exchanged for the real, but exchanged for itself, in an uninterrupted circuit without reference or circumference.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Real, What If, Simulacrum

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• More like Cross blew your circuits during one of his sexathons. Still can’t get over that man’s stamina. Wish he’d swing my way and wear me out.

  Sylvia Day

  Men, Swings, Wish

  Sylvia Day (2013). “Entwined with You”, p.35, Penguin

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• When I putt, my emotions collide like tectonic plates. It's left my memory circuits full of scars that won't heal.

  Mac O'Grady

  Memories, Golf, Emotion

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• What's exciting about using our mind is that we can short circuit all the excuses thrown up by our fears.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mind

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• Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another intelligence that it would be the result of a huge project ... a great mass of silicon and ancient transistors and chips and circuit boards ... a machine with lots of networking circuits, in other words, aping-if you will pardon the expression-the human brain in form and function. Of course, AIs did not evolve that way. They sort of slipped into existence when we humans were looking the other way.

  Dan Simmons

  Expression, Once Upon A Time, Brain

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• Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?

  Pat Conroy

  Eye, Live In The Moment, Mindfulness

  Pat Conroy (2010). “My Losing Season”, p.302, Random House

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• I really love the festival circuit.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Festivals

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• I am constantly working out-circuit training, jumping rope, and stair-stepping, and sticking to 1200 calories a day. It can't be something that you're doing to lose weight, and then once you do, you're done. I do it every day of my life.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Jumping, Work Out, Training

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• For the concept of a circuit of the blood does not destroy, but rather advances traditional medicine.

  William Harvey

  Blood, Medicine, Doe

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• And so I ask, "Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?" But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers, answers in his weary cryptic way, "Rather think of Sex as Time, and Time as the connection of new circuits.

  Norman Mailer

  God, Time, Sex

  Norman Mailer (2013). “The Deer Park: A Novel”, p.368, Random House

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• Anna Kournikova will always be better paid than Lindsay Davenport. The first left the circuit without having won a single title while the second was world number one.

  Marion Bartoli

  Numbers, Titles, World

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• When I grew older and went my own way, MMA kind of stuck with me. I got to the point where I wanted to make something of it. I always thought fighting was fun, so I joined a gym and took it serious. I never actually thought I would be a real fighter, though. But I began to excel on the local circuit and I did well for myself.

  Brad Tavares

  Fun, Real, Fighting

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I don't do much driving - about 5,000-6,000 miles a year. And most of that is to the airport and to the racing circuits.

  Allan McNish

  Airports, Years, Racing

  Interview with Susan Michals, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2012.

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• It is impossible for the mind which is not totally destitute of piety, to behold the sublime, the awful, the amazing works of creation and providence - the heavens with their luminaries, the mountains, the ocean, the storm, the earthquake, the volcano, the circuit of the seasons, and the revolutions of empires - without marking in them all the mighty hand of God, and feeling strong emotions of reverence toward the Author of these stupendous works.

  Timothy Dwight V

  Strong, Ocean, Volcanoes

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 273), 1895.

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