"Needy and boring parents tend to have needy and bored children."

-- Amy Dickinson

#Children Quotes #Women Quotes #Bored Quotes

“I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.”
“I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.”
“We choose mania over boredom every time.”

Source : James Gleick (2000). “Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything”, Vintage
“No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.”
“You think when someone you love passes away, everything becomes clearer, that your priorities and perspectives align in a way they've never aligned before because of the sobriety of it all. But it doesn't. Those revelations just become skewed and distorted until you're forced to rewrite them entirely. You can't walk straight on a new path when you have too much luggage on your back. You just keep swerving, trying to find a way to accommodate the weight, but it's all dead and you know it's going to take you down. The only answer is to reroute.-Emma”
“Creativity is a force moving through us, and only through practice do we learn how to cooperate with it. The 'process' is like a muscle. It needs to be exercised in order to function effortlessly.”
“I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.”
“Iran can and should be a responsible state, not the leading state sponsor of terror.”

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