Maryanne Wolf Quotes

The quality of our reading is not only an index of the quality of our thought; it is our best-known route to developing whole new pathways in the cerebral evolution of our species.

Maryanne Wolf

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QualityReadingThoughtEvolution

Games have no other purpose than to please.

Jesse Schell

PurposeGamesThanOtherPlease

A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate circumstance. We don't see a big picture for our lives. We don't love ourselves. We don't have a way of kind of gauging the future, so we count it lost.

Jennifer Holliday

LoveFuturePictureLostKindWay

America's moved so much of its production and manufacturing offshore, it's become a nation of middlemen.

Andrew Dominik

AmericaBecomeManufacturingNation

I don't want to hurt anybody or be offensive. But I don't want to not be me.

Melanie Chisholm

MeHurtWantOffensiveAnybody

Deep down inside, I'm really a black girl stuck in a Mexican girl's body. But I'm also in touch with my inner white girl and my inner Asian girl. I feel like a little bit of everybody.

Anjelah Johnson

GirlDeepBlackFeelBodyDown

My household is, in a nice way, very busy.

Ann Brashares

BusyNiceWayVeryHousehold

'The Simpsons' appearances were great fun. But I don't take them too seriously. I think 'The Simpsons' have treated my disability responsibly.

Stephen Hawking

GreatFunThinkDisabilitySeriously

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

Rudyard Kipling

BeautyWomenPeopleCityMadWhose

If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be messed-up.

Mitch Hedberg

YouDrunkRabbitsGotWouldCarrots

I don't know if a penny's dropped somewhere, but you've had 'Lark Rise to Candleford,' you've had 'Cranford,' you've had 'Last Tango in Halifax,' you've had 'Call the Midwife'... I think the largest portion of the viewing public are over 55, and they like to see people they can identify with.

Judy Parfitt

PeopleThinkPennyYouRiseKnow

Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script.

Douglas Wood

QualityMeImportantOriginality

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Drake

LoveTimeHateJealousySameJust

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