"I was focused on building things from an early age. When I was about 3, our toilet broke, and my mother was ready to call the plumber. I told her I would fix it and asked her to get my Richard Scarry book 'How Things Work in Busytown.' Between the picture of a toilet and the text she read to me explaining how the parts worked, I fixed it."

-- Colin Angle

#Mother Quotes #Book Quotes #Age Quotes

“If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart's parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.”
“Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.”
“Having made up my mind, I went to see Steve [Jobs]. I brought a hand-drawn sketch with me, and I said, "Please make something like this." He said, "Don't show me such an ugly design sketch." But he also said, "You've got the right idea. I totally agree that the time has come when we can make the ultimate mobile machine."”
“We have received unconfirmed reports out of our embassy in Amman in Jordan that two Indonesian nationals, or precisely two Indonesian reporters ... have been taken away by armed individuals,”

Source : "Iraq: Indonesia reporters missing". www.cnn.com. February 18, 2005.
“How is Christmas regarded today? The legend of Santa Claus, the Christmas tree, the decorations of tinsel and mistletoe, and the giving of gifts all express to us the spirit of the day we celebrate; but the true spirit of Christmas lies much deeper than these. It is found in the life of the Savior, in the principles He taught, in His atoning sacrifice-which become our great heritage.”
“Frank Berliners spiritual memoir is beautifully crafted and written. It is a tale about love, and the great longing that springs from thereâ€”to learn, to grow, to be real, and to forge a genuine connection with oneself and others, with life, and with death. I highly recommend it.”
“Part of what we have to do is not just keep ignorant people away from the polls. We have to actually change the structural realities that make people make bad choices beyond their ignorance or what have you.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“My nature is a quagmire of unresolved confessions.”

Source : Robert Creeley (1966). “Poems 1950-1965”

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