"[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival."

-- Mildred H. McAfee

#Education Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Survival Quotes

“You just write one word and that tells you what the next word is going to be.”
“A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters.”
“It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.”
“Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.”

Source : Nancy Atherton (1998). “Aunt Dimity's Good Deed”, p.152, Penguin
“How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some nights so hard I thought I could enter him, open his back at the spine like a door or a curtain and slip in like a small fish between his ribs, nudge the coral of his brains with my lips, brushing over the blue coil of his bowels with the fluted silk of my tail.”
“I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.”
“I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.”
“What appear to be the most valuable aspects of the theoretical physics we have are the mathematical descriptions which enable us to predict events. These equations are, we would argue, the only realities we can be certain of in physics; any other ways we have of thinking about the situation are visual aids or mnemonics which make it easier for beings with our sort of macroscopic experience to use and remember the equations.”

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