Maryanne Wolf Quotes

Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle that is evolving under our fingertips.

Maryanne Wolf

Recitation: by Male by Female

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ReadingRealizeMiracleActFail

There's no such thing as multitasking.

Jim Loehr

Thing

I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.

Jennifer Garner

PeopleThinkUniverseHollywoodMean

I am a restless person.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

I AmPersonRestlessAm

Render yourself free to choose, to be, to live, to see.

Maximillian Degenerez

LiveYourselfFreeChooseSee

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don't know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

Robert Baden-Powell

WinterMyselfSleepTiredPeople

A kitchen without a knife is not a kitchen.

Masaharu Morimoto

KitchenKnifeWithout

I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn't think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I'd like to think comes from the years of attention we've put into this.

Michelle Obama

ThinkViewUnderstandingLookHand

The Bible is God's Word expressed and revealed to his creature, man.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

GodManBibleWordHisCreature

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Douglas William Jerrold

SportsOnlyAthleticEverMastered

We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.

Chris Noth

FoodPeopleProblemsDeepProblem

I'm getting into interior design.

Playboi Carti

DesignInteriorGetting

I think I was 16 when I had the thought of maybe being a writer. And this is complicated, something I only now understand, because when I was young, having dyslexia and not knowing it made reading such an ordeal.

Philip Schultz

ReadingThinkThoughtNot Knowing

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