"The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be."

-- Maria Semple

#Interesting Quotes

“To reach new areas, you have to get your brain out of its comfort zone. There are various ways to do it, but I believe the easiest is by training yourself in a neurological phenomenon called synesthesia, in which the brain makes unusual associations between things like sounds, colors and emotions.”

Source : "The Easiest Way to Get a Better, Smarter Brain". Interview with Abigail Libers, www.oprah.com. September 2015.
“I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.”
“Everyone had so much to say.”
“What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.”
“Ice cream is my comfort food.”

Source : "Jessie Ware: 'I'm such a bully about food'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.
“Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.”
“I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington and Bunker Hill will be found equal in patriotism, courage and heroic endurance with the descendants of the heroes of Cowpens and Yorktown. For this reason I predict the civil war which is now at hand will be stubborn and of long duration.”
“The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.”

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