Quotes About Adultliving

#1. People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

John McWhorter

#2. Mommies can't look gross!' J.J. protested.

Meg Waite Clayton

#3. Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.

Salman Rushdie

#4. Mystification is the psychiatrist's defense against the danger of being found out.

Leonard Roy Frank

#5. The depreciation of historical fact is deeply, and probably functionally, ingrained in the ideology of the scientific profession, the same profession that places the highest of all values upon factual details of other sorts.

Thomas S. Kuhn

#6. The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.

Laura Lippman

#7. But with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'.

Huston Smith

#8. For the most part, "naturals" are myths. People who are especially good at something may have some innate inclination, or some particular talent, but they have also spent about ten thousand hours practicing or doing that thing.

Meg Jay