Asteross Quotes & Sayings

Male rats don't experience the hormonal changes that trigger maternal behavior in female rats. They never normally participate in infant care. Yet put a baby rat in a cage with a male adult and after a few days he will be caring for the baby almost as if he were its mother. He'll pick it up, nestle it close to him as a nursing female would, keep the baby rat clean and comforted, and even build a comfy nest for it.29 The parenting circuits are there in the male brain, even in a species in which paternal care doesn't normally exist.30 If a male rat, without even the aid of a William Sears baby-care manual, can be inspired to parent then I would suggest that the prospects for human fathers are pretty good. — Cordelia Fine

What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art. — Wendy Carlos

When I am asked
how I began writing poems,
I talk about the indifference of nature. — Lisel Mueller

A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,' said he. 'Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world. — Rafael Sabatini

Holy Moses on a pogo stick!! — Lara Adrian

Fools admire, but men of sense approve. — Alexander Pope

I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore? — Cass Elliot

For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it and tweak it. — Greg Berlanti

Well, " said her daddy, "your careless heedlessness has almost lost me my life. I am now going to give you a spanking." And he did and so dinner was a snuffling red-eyed meal filled with cold looks and long silences and the cheese souffle, which was delicious. — Betty MacDonald

In any profession, there are always ups and downs. — Sachin Tendulkar