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“Let every family meet once a day or week for a real hearty sing, and their sing will give them more pleasure than they will take all the rest of the day.”
Source : Orson Squire Fowler (1851). “Memory and Intellectual Improvement: Applied to Self-education and Juvenile Instruction”, p.115
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“Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly [...] All the earlier proposals will be in the new text, but will be hidden and disguised in some way.”
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“It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose their appeal.”
Source : Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.384, Vintage
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“Claire, did I invite you to my BBQ?" "No." "Then why are you up in my grill?”
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“I don’t want to talk about loving God. I want to actually love God.”
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“I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice. This is the best I can do. All the trouble in the world is human trouble. Well, that's not true. But when cancer cells run amok and burst out of the prostate and take over the liver and lymph glands and end up killing everything in the body including themselves, they certainly are acting like some humans we know.”
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“[Gord] Downie has become more animated than the early days, but he's still the same charismatic performer. And as a whole, that band is really the result of each individual member. If one member was not a part of it, it wouldn't be the Hip. They're all crucial to the whole thing.”
Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital social role for men. At stake is nothing less than the success of the American experiment. For unless we reverse the trend of fatherlessness, no other set of accomplishments--not economic growth or prison construction or welfare reform or better schools--will succeed in arresting the decline of child well-being and the spread of male violence. To tolerate the trend of fatherlessness is to accept the inevitability of continued social recession.”
