"In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed hands, the exclamation mark is the big attention-deficit brother who gets overexcited and breaks things and laughs too loudly."

-- Lynne Truss

#Brother Quotes #Piano Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Without conjuring up fantasies of bygone eras with family games and long, leisurely meals, the question arises: isn't there a better family life available than this dismal, mechanized arrangement of children watching television for however long is allowed them, evening after evening?”

Source : Marie Winn (2002). “The Plug-in Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life”, Penguin Group USA
“It's the same old thing getting lost Day 'N' Nite young and lost in the pain.”
“I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.”

Source : Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
“What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.”
“The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but whispers of the activity.”
“At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.”
“The end of a wedding reception is always so depressing. And only the bride and groom are spared, jetting off into the sunset while the rest of us wake up the next morning to just another day.”
“First become a winner in life. Then it's easier to become a winner on the field.”

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