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Maryanne Wolf Quotes

Reading or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception, cognition, and, over time, our emotions.

Maryanne Wolf

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american

Topics

Time Brain Perception Reading New

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

Jim Jarmusch

Think Way Outlaw Poets I Think

The most powerful people in my town were the doctors and the lawyers. I didn't really have any experience dealing with really powerful people until I started practicing law.

Megyn Kelly

Experience People Law Powerful Most

I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

Robert Smith

Life Children Mindset Someone Born

I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum.

Jean Pigozzi

Love Money New York Museum New Open

The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all.

Michael Caine

Makeup Look Want First Wear Really

I always need to keep moving.

Ana de Armas

Moving Keep Moving Need Always Keep

The time you do get edgy and the time you do want to slack off is the time, boom, there goes your opportunity. So you don't want to have that.

Stefon Diggs

Opportunity Time You Want Edgy Get

I don't want to be carried out of a club wearing a tie-dye T-shirt and a cap on the wrong way around when I am 70, but I would like to settle down a bit. Maybe with a partner.

Rupert Everett

I Am Partner Down Wrong Want Way

I have a cottage near Aldeburgh, and from there it's a sturdy two-mile walk across farmland to an empty beach, where I collect hag stones and run around with the dog. I'm a keen walker, and I love Suffolk's big skies.

Diana Quick

Dog Love Beach Walk Run Skies

I always thought about 'Station to Station' as an approach. It was about creating an alternative platform for culture where different mediums could co-exist.

Doug Aitken

Culture Thought Creating Always

Discovering new species is a passion. A day without collecting plants is painful for me.

Corneille Ewango

Passion Day Me Plants New Without

O thou Sun, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintance of good men, but never hear anything of bad ones, nor they of me.

Apollonius of Tyana

Good Men Sun Me Bad Earth