Joshua Foer 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 Brains Quotes Evolution Quotes Jokes Quotes Memorable Quotes Programmed Quotes Sex Quotes I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I’m ashamed to admit that I still can’t read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish. Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading a book and then have only a foggy notion of what it was about.
Anderson Cooper That’s the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it. – Anderson Cooper
EnvironmentalMichael Pollan In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel – it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn. – Michael Pollan
Carrie Preston I have a recurring role on ‘Person of Interest,’ which is my husband’s show. I play the love of his life. It was really fun to do that. – Carrie Preston
Peyton Manning Quarterbacks coach, I would do at Tennessee. Head coach? Absolutely not. – Peyton Manning
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