"I never thought of that one, that linguistics could be driving cultural things. There are some thoughts that that does happen in humans, that languages have different characteristics and that influences in some ways how different groups behave, and I suppose it might in whales."

“I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.”

“There's a stone I had made for Luke at the top of the hill road, where the pasture opens wide and the setting sun highlights the words carved into its face. "That'll do, Luke, that'll do." The words are said to working dogs all over the world when the chores are done and the flock is settled: "That'll do dog, come home now, your work is done." Luke's work is done too. He took my heart and ran with it, and he's running still, fast and strong, a piece of my heart bound up with his, forever.”

Source : Patricia McConnell, Ph.D. (2009). “For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend”, p.249, Ballantine Books

“If you wait, you grow old, nothing more.”

Source : Walter Bargen (2009). “Days Like this are Necessary: New and Selected Poems”, Bkmk Pr/Umkc

“Sometimes living is not so light and easy and you need a representation of life in front of you. It's a fake reorganization of reality. You start to feel, "I'm not so alone in the world because I can recognize exactly the same feelings."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.”

“It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the smart book three years after everyone else has finished.”

“Everything we put in and on our bodies must be nutritious and safe,”

“Read good, big important things.”