Graeme Simsion Quotes
Top 93 wise famous quotes and sayings by Graeme Simsion
Graeme Simsion Famous Quotes & Sayings
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What would you like?" "A skinny decaf latte." This is a ridiculous form of coffee, but I did not point it out.
I have heard the word 'stunning' used to describe women, but this was the first time I had actually been stunned by one.
Whatever behavior modifications you require from me are a trivial price to pay for have you as my partner
Hurtling back to town, in a red Porsche driven by a beautiful woman, with the song playing, I had the sense of standing on the brink of another world.
I shook my head to test for a hangover but it seemed that my alcohol-processing enzymes had done their job adequately.
Before sharing interesting information that has not been solicited, think carefully about whether it has the potential to cause distress.
Correct. The male instinct is to cheat. You need to overcome it.'
'Women accept it as long as you don't embarrass them with it. Look at France.
'Women accept it as long as you don't embarrass them with it. Look at France.
Asperger's syndrome is associated with organization, focus, innovative thinking, and rational detachment.
Since I had never been so sexually attracted to a woman before, I was suddenly compelled to examine her ears.
We're scientists," I reminded him. "We shouldn't be defeated by problems. If we think hard enough, a solution will present itself.
The great thing about homo sapiens is that we've got a brain that can override our instincts. If we want it to.
What are the symptoms of being fucked-up?' 'I've got crap in my life that I wish I hadn't. And I'm not good at dealing with it. Am I making sense?
I looked again at the nighttime view of the city - the view I had never seen before even though it had been there all the time.
Time has been redefined. Previous rules no longer apply. Alcohol is hereby declared mandatory in the Rosie Time Zone.
If you shut yourself down, you're wasting two days of your life that someone is trying to make exciting and productive and fun for you.
Take notice of your emotions as well as logic. Emotions have their own logic. And try to go with the flow.
So, to add to a momentous day, I corrected a misconception that my family had held for at least fifteen years and came out to them as straight.
Watch some kids, watch them play. You'll see they're just little adults, only they don't know all the rules and tricks yet.
After the most basic physical requirements are satisfied, human happiness is almost independent of wealth. A meaningful job is far more important.
Why do people value others' time so little? Now we would have the inevitable small talk. I could have spent fifteen minutes at home practicing aikido.
And it dawned on me that I had not designed the questionnaire to find a woman I could accept, but to find someone who might accept me.
The Apricot Ice-cream Disaster had cost a whole evening of my life, compensated for only by the information about simulation algorithms.
I believe it is the duty of science, of humanity, to discover as much as we can. But I am a physical scientist, not a psychologist. The
I need a minute to think, she said. I automatically started the timer on my watch. Suddenly Rosie started laughing.
Then, in this vanishingly small moment in the history of the universe, she took my hand, and held it all the way to the subway.
Greetings. My name is Don Tillman and I am a suspected paedophile. I wish to put myself on standby for an assessment.
You are the world's most perfect woman. All other women are irrelevant. Permanently. No Botox or implants will be required.
This is terrible wine, no?' I agreed. It was a carbonated sweet wine, acceptable only because of its alcohol content.
Time's up. Excellent work. All the rational solutions came from the aspies. Everyone else was incapacitated by emotion.
But I had concluded that being myself, with all my intrinsic flaws, was more important than having the thing I wanted most.