"To have a blog is to have some portion of your brain assigned to monitoring your audience."

-- Jake Lodwick

#Brain Quotes #Monitoring Quotes #Portions Quotes

“All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must lock himself up, to communicate he must cut himself off from all communication; and in this there is something always a little mad.”

Source : Kenneth Tynan (1961). “Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings”
“Grandparents can have a profound influence on their grandchildren. Their time is generally not as encumbered and busy as the parents', so books can be opened and read, stories can be told... Children then obtain a perspective of life which not only is rewarding but can bring them security, peace, and strength....”
“I came to understand that the words executive and corporate never belong next to the word chef.”
“I came to realize that exaggerated concern about what others are doing can be foolish. It can paralyze effort, and stifle a good idea. One finds that in the history of science, almost every problem has been worked out by someone else. This should not discourage anyone from pursuing his own path.”
“This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity for life, who indeed seized life in great variety and almost greedy quantities, who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him was able to grasp his death.”
“I really wanted to support this campaign because I love heart shaped glasses. Seriously though, I've never hit anyone. I'm anti-violence full stop. Against women, against men, against animals. Against anything.”
“The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.”
“Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.”

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