"They were soul mates, my mother and father. They claimed to adore each other, as if the word 'adore' meant 'argue with ceaselessly."

-- Merrill Markoe

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Each of is an arm of Kannon, enabling Kannon to do her work. Like her, we're also overwhelmed, but when we reallize that the millions of pieces are all operating as one, then there's no problem. The reason we get overwhelmed is that we're attached to a certain result or taht we want to achieve a certain result or that we to achieve a certain goal. If we weren't attached we wouldn't be overwhelmed. It's endless. And we just take one step after the next”
“Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.”
“I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.”
“No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.”
“I would love to play cricket today, with all - I am not just talking of money - the opportunity you get, the practice facilities, the amount of time you are able to put into preparation.”
“If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall!”
“In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past.”
“In the beginning of Roomba, we all took turns answering the support line. Once, a woman called and explained that her robot had a defective motor. I said, 'Send it back. We'll send you a new one.' She said, 'No - I'm not sending you Rosie.'”

Source : "My Roomba's Name Is Roswell". Interview with Celeste Biever, www.slate.com. March 23, 2014.

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