"Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects..... (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors- though not tics- in my two year old godson, now in a stage of primal antinomianism and anarchy)"

-- Oliver Sacks

#Years Quotes #Two Year Olds Quotes #People Quotes

“This Court is forever adding new stories to the temples of constitutional law, and the temples have a way of collapsing when one story too many is added.”
“A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it.”
“Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but itâ€™s not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I donâ€™t want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots.”
“We are meant to be one. And only after we realize that amazing truth can we find what we need - true peace.”
“I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.”
“I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.”
“Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced.”
“I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.”

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