"My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it,'"

-- Carol Leifer

#Father Quotes #Guy Quotes #Kind Quotes

“I don't know if I'm the best. There are better shooters, better defenders, but there aren't too many female who play the game like I do.”
“Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.”
“It's fun to peek into other people's worlds and see how they go about doing things.”
“Generalists, people with moderately strong attachments to many ideas, should be hard to interrupt, and once interrupted, should have weaker, shorter negative reactions since they have alternative paths to realize their plans. Specialists, people with stronger attachments to fewer ideas, should be easier to interrupt, and once interrupted, should have stronger, more sustained negative reactions because they have fewer alternative pathways to realize their plans. Generalists should be the upbeat, positive people in the profession while specialists should be their grouchy, negative counterparts.”
“To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.”
“I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and the Civil War and everything leading up to the Civil War, you start to understand that the myth is created when we think we understand a character and we reduce him to a kind of cultural national stereotype.”
“I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.”
“To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.”

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