Stephanie Coontz Quotes

In personal life, the warm glow of nostalgia amplifies good memories and minimizes bad ones about experiences and relationships, encouraging us to revisit and renew our ties with friends and family. It always involves a little harmless self-deception, like forgetting the pain of childbirth.

Stephanie Coontz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 31, 1944

Topics

LifeFamilyGoodMemoriesPainWarm

I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids' hands, too, but they don't let me any more. When I'm driving I sometimes write all the way up my arms.

Jodi Picoult

MeWritingDrivingHandsSometimes

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

Andrew Bird

SingingThreeSoundViolinPlaying

Think of Slide as a giant media network for people to transmit information. The content that's in there now has been provided by users - it's whatever they want it to be.

Max Levchin

PeopleThinkMediaInformationWant

I think most people are indifferent in their evaluation of what is good or bad.

Robert J. Sawyer

GoodPeopleThinkBadEvaluation

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Robert Orben

WisdomFeetMouthSometimesRather

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

Matt Mullenweg

TechnologyWritingUnderstandFirst

I'm not locked into playing one guy.

Jeff Bridges

PlayingGuyLocked

But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess.

Michael Hutchence

LifeBusinessHappyMy LifeYou

I think that high school themes are replayed over and over throughout your life, and you try to pretend that it's a phase and that once you're out of high school it's over, but I don't think that's true.

Michael J. Willett

LifeSchoolHigh SchoolThinkYou

Christmas to me, obviously, basketball is very important to me, but there are some days of the year where it's got to take a back seat to something.

Stan Van Gundy

MeBasketballYearBackChristmas

The GRAMMY was a huge deal. It's the height of any musical career.

Tommy Chong

CareerHeightDealGrammyAnyHuge

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn't think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

Joyce Meyer

PeopleMeBibleThinkThoughtHard

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