“Just give me the basic fry, please. My nightmare is fancy fries. Fancy fries are my nightmare. You really put me on spiral there. I didn’t realize how emotional this would be.”— Hayley Kiyoko, thecut.com
“Interactivity is a sense in itself, it brings whatever is special within the individual and allows them to put themselves into the story.”— Douglas Adams, youtube.com
“What is real? How do you define 'real'? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.”— Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Morpheus, Laurence Fishburne, imdb.com
“Shadow: Did you always believe? Jesus: Did I always believe? I am belief, Shadow. I don't know how not to believe. Shadow: I don't think I know how to. I think I maybe don't...don't really believe. You know, I don't really believe any of this. And maybe everything that's happened so far is just some…”— Maria Melnik, Shadow Moon, Ricky Whittle, imdb.com
“For the Members of the Assembly having before their eys so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of mankind has so long wandred, because they rely'd upon the strength of humane Reason alone, have begun anew to correct all Hypotheses by sense, as Seamen do their…”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, ‘rest.’ We distinguish between living and dead matter; between moving bodies and bodies at rest. This is a primitive point of view. What seems dead, a stone or the proverbial ‘door-nail,’ say, is…”— Max Born, todayinsci.com
“Now, as I wandered in the cycad forest on Rota, it seemed as if my senses were actually enlarging, as if a new sense, a time sense, was opening within me, something which might allow me to appreciate millennia or aeons as directly as I had experienced seconds or minutes.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“You haven’t kissed anyone for a while now. To you, everything tastes like blood.”— Warsan Shire, itwillheal.wordpress.com
“If anything happens in the daytime, we ask what it is and are not so frightened; but if there is a noise at night, terror seizes on all our senses.”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“In the mind perfect intelligence flourished and reigned, uprightness attended as its companion, and all the senses were prepared and moulded for due obedience to reason; and in the body there was a suitable correspondence with this internal order.”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.”— Jim Butcher, amazon.com
“Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.”— Alain de Botton, twitter.com