"Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?"

-- Jacqueline Woodson

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Brain Quotes

“The Zen masters have the right idea-no pain no gain: thwack a silly nebbish and he'll remember it far longer and more indelibly than any words you muster at him. Not absolutely everything can or should have to be explained, and particularly not to everybody. But a concussion is a value-judgment anyone gets the point of.”
“Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.”
“The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.”
“As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical issues are involved. The hard part will be finding out what it means, because this poses intellectual problems of how to understand the participation of the genes in the functions of living cells.”
“Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose.”
“I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even if itâ€™s one of the innumerable languages I donâ€™t know, even if itâ€™s in an indistinguishable murmur or imperceptible whisper, even if it would be better that I didnâ€™t understand and whatâ€™s said is not intended for my ears or is said precisely so I wonâ€™t understand it.”
“Being Dead means very light housekeeping”

Source : Roger Gilbert-Lecomte (1991). “Black Mirror: The Selected Poems of Roger Gilbert-Lecomte”, Station Hill Press
“I don't want to preach, but I would like to see metal become more of a united thing. I'm tired of people breaking things down into categories like thrash metal and death metal. I think people tend to stick to one category, and I want people to support all kinds of bands, whether it be Slayer or Queensryche or Death. I miss the days when it was acceptable to listen to everything from Priest and Maiden to Slayer and Venom.”

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