This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. – Aristotle
The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four — of secondary importance is to prepare for being five. – Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook, 1985
I dont know how many thoughts we have a second, but its quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper. – Robert Wyatt
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. – Isaac Asimov
The movies have got more corporate, theyre making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen. – John Cusack
Whats funny is that the idea of popularity – even the use of the word popular – is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern. – Susan Orlean
