Turchin Electric Quotes & Sayings

Fall in Alabama was menopausal: hot one moment and cold the next. — Lexi George

Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure. — Gordon B. Hinckley

I give you now Professor Twist
The conscientious scientist.
Trustees exclaimed, "He never bungles"
And sent him off to distant jungles.
Camped on a tropic riverside
One day he missed his lovely bride.
She had, the guide informed him later,
Been eaten by an alligator.
Professor Twist could not but smile.
You mean," he said "a crocodile.! — Ogden Nash

We are not told, or not told early enough so that it sinks in, that mathematics is a language, and that we can learn it like any other, including our own. We have to learn our own language twice, first when we learn to speak it, second when we learn to read it. Fortunately, mathematics has to be learned only once, since it is almost wholly a written language. — Mortimer J. Adler

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man. — Epictetus

I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium. — Henny Youngman

Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don't see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither skill nor desire to turn the agony of a people into entertainment. — Ayi Kwei Armah

I married my first boyfriend. We just married too young. No children. So that broke up. There were a few relationships in between, and then I met my husband Adam when I was 37. — Liane Moriarty

Every house should have a room called the breathing room, or at least a corner of a room reserved for this purpose. In this place you can put a low table with a flower, a little bell, and enough cushions for everyone in the family to sit on. When you feel uneasy, sad, or angry, you can go into this room, close the door, sit down, invite the sound of the bell, and practice breathing mindfully. When you have breathed like this for ten or fifteen minutes, you begin to feel better. If you do not practice like this, you can lose your temper. Then you may shout or pick a fight with the other person, creating a huge storm in your family. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Speaking it aloud would reveal the absurdity of it, and he preferred the dream. — Anthony Ryan

All is well
or could be, if we worked to make it so. We were the fingers of the world, putting itself to rights. — Rachel Hartman

As McLuhan says, everything happens at once. — John Cage

Perhaps to them the first condition for anything having real charm was this: that it must not really exist. — Karen Blixen

Music can get me through anything. — Scott Wilson