Maryanne Wolf Quotes

The questions that our society must ask revolve around whether the time-consuming demands of the deep-reading processes will be lost in a culture whose principal mediums advantage speed, multitasking, and processing the next and the next piece of information.

Maryanne Wolf

Recitation: by Male by Female

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CultureSocietyQuestionsSpeedLost

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

Johannes Tauler

GodHeartGreenFruitTongueBloom

Some comedians love their characters. I don't fall in love with mine. In fact, I get tired of them very fast. You have to be willing to throw it all away.

John Belushi

LoveTiredYouFallFastComedians

I'm a scrappy outsider from Boston, so didn't have a privileged background at all like many in business.

Jeremy Strong

BusinessBostonOutsiderBackground

My art is a disciplined high dive - high soar, simultaneous & polychromous, an exaltation of the verbal-visual... my dialogue.

Robert Indiana

ArtSoarDiveDialogueHigh

I think this notion that it's the population of the U.S. against the big companies is just wrong.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

ThinkWrongBigAgainstPopulation

Consumer behaviour changes in a glacial fashion.

John Quelch

FashionChangesConsumerBehaviour

As this case has progressed, the evidence that the prosecution has claimed exists against me has been proven less and less and less. And all that has happened is that they've filled these holes with speculation.

Amanda Knox

MeEvidenceAgainstBeenHappened

Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.

Steve Earle

ArtBestPoliticalAmericaSometimes

Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,' you ask? I don't know... I've had so much, a son as president, two as senators, a son-in-law who's an ambassador... perhaps God doesn't permit that much.

Rose Kennedy

FamilySonGodViolenceYouEnvy

Marriage, like love, is an aspiration. It's a process.

Ruby Dee

LoveMarriageLove IsProcessLike

People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.

Mary Quant

PeopleMoreSeeSenseOnlyHaving

It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.

Michael Ondaatje

PerceptionViewSomeoneYouWrite

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