Vilciens Majori Quotes & Sayings

Children's literature is one of my joys, and it's also my mental comfort food. — Gretchen Rubin

Only the hardest roads make us really feel that we are alive! Leave the easy roads! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings. — John Kricfalusi

Nature is our greatest teacher. — Edna Walling

Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire — Ambrose Bierce

Recall the metaphor I used in chapter 4 relating the random movements of molecules in a gas to the random movements of evolutionary change. Molecules in a gas move randomly with no apparent sense of direction. Despite this, virtually every molecule in a gas in a beaker, given sufficient time, will leave the beaker. I noted that this provides a perspective on an important question concerning the evolution of intelligence. Like molecules in a gas, evolutionary changes also move every which way with no apparent direction. Yet we nonetheless see a movement toward greater complexity and greater intelligence, indeed to evolution's supreme achievement of evolving a neocortex capable of hierarchical thinking. So we are able to gain an insight
into how an apparently purposeless and directionless process can achieve an apparently purposeful result in one field (biological evolution) by looking at another field (thermodynamics). — Ray Kurzweil

Dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions. — John Green

In my sort of young, idealistic mind, I was just like, 'Well, it's either theater or film for me, and that will be that!' — Gillian Jacobs

Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own? — Brigham Young

Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you're not there anymore. It's better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal. — Mary Karr

That's your problem, isn't it, Madigan? Too much feeling. — Frank Beddor

Families necessitate energetic concealment of the obvious, to be plain about it. To be in a family is to work strenuously to suppress the truth, for reasons I cannot determine, and the shadow, when it came, caused competing strategies in the family I occupied. — Ben Marcus