Mary Elizabeth Clark famous quotes

Sometimes one sees people butter their slices of bread with long, slow, admiring strokes in the same way in which Tom Sawyer's friends whitewashed the fence. Never butter an entire slice of bread at one time ...
-- Mary Elizabeth Clark

#Long #People #Way

The lurking tragedy: The chances are that an accident will some day happen to you at a friend's dinner table ... As long as water and coffee and jelly exist, a certain percentage of each will necessarily be overturned upon a like number of snowy white tablecloths. Usually the tragedy is really no one's fault.
-- Mary Elizabeth Clark

#Coffee #White #Numbers

It isn't the sign of a good sport to go out among other people when one has a cold: it is the sign of a selfish and ill-advised person.
-- Mary Elizabeth Clark

#Sports #Selfish #People

I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and his mental focus. He was always concentrated on the inner alignment through breath.

People should be left to believe what they like, so long as they harm no one else. Apart from normal expectations of politeness, it is not however clear why people should require their personal beliefs to be treated with special sensitivity by others, to the point that if others fail to tip-toe respectfully around them they will start throwing bombs.

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.