"[Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying but entirely bogus rumble of pleasure."

-- Michael Chabon

#Mind Quotes #Cards Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids wont grow up to be connected to him.”
“Of all the 'attitudes' we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.”
“The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licensable under v3, but not the kernel in general. And quite frankly, I don't see that changing. I think it's insane to require people to make their private signing keys available, for example. I wouldn't do it. So I don't think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the kernel, since I personally don't want to convert any of my code. You think v2 or later is the default. It's not. The _default_ is to not allow conversion. Conversion isn't going to happen.”
“The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn't look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult.”

Source : Uta Hagen (1991). “Challenge For The Actor”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
“I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.”
“Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.”
“The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.”

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