"An enthusiast may bore others, but he has never a dull moment himself."

-- John F. Kieran

#Boredom Quotes #Dull Quotes #May Quotes

“Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.”
“I am aware that many critics consider the conditions in the stars not sufficiently extreme . . . the stars are not hot enough. The critics lay themselves open to an obvious retort: we tell them to go and find a hotter place.”
“Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.”
“What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role of carbohydrates in overweight, ever since the publication in 1864 of William Banting's famous "Letter on Corpulence"? Could it be related, in part, to the vast financial endowments poured into the various departments of nutritional education by the manufacturers of our refined carbohydrate foodstuff?”

Source : Robert C. Atkins (1972). “Dr. Atkins' diet revolution; the high calorie way to stay thin forever”
“And for a lot of people, they want it all to be fuzzy and warm and cosmic, but it's no different with a horse than with a kid...You can't always be the kid's best friend. First you have to be the parent.”
“In the Sapient tongue he said softly, â€˜Tell me, Master, did you know Incarceron was tiny?â€™ â€˜Is it?â€™ Sapphique replied in the same language, his green eyes as he looked up lit by deep points of flame. â€˜To you, perhaps. Not to its Prisoners. Every prison is a universe for its inmates. And think, Jared Sapiens. Might not the Realm also be tiny, swinging from the watchchain of some being in a world even vaster?”
“One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.”
“Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.”

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