"Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure."

-- Marshall McLuhan

#Men Quotes #Play Quotes #Leisure Quotes

“One of the most essential and mundane of human activities - taking care of children - requires high levels of anxious vigilance. ... [Parents] dare not risk assuming that the sudden quiet from the toddlers' room means they are studying with Baby Einstein. Visualize fratricidal stranglings and electric outlets stabbed with forks: this is how we have reproduced our genomes.”
“For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.”

Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2010). “Revolution”, p.199, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.”
“Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.”
“For me, my core focus has always been to help others so what drives me to keep doing this is the fact that I can continue to learn to coach others such as yourself. You might not be a fitness trainer, or maybe you are, but you need to find that CORE reason that will keep you going forever.”
“Tennis has given me soul.”
“I suspect people would be in for a real shock if they knew the depths of [Obama's] historical ignorance.”

Source : "Obama: Bush is Responsible for Chavez (Bzzt! Wrong!)". littlegreenfootballs.com. May 25, 2008.
“To say that truth is not out there is simply to say that where there are no sentences there is no truth, that sentences are elements of human languages, and that languages are human creations.~ The suggestion that truth~ is out there is a legacy of an age in which the world was seen as the creation of a being who had a language his own.”

Source : Richard Rorty (1989). “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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