quotes about Strange Places

“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”

“When did you trust someone to hold a truth as carefully as you did?”

“When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.”

“The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture on atoms and molecules, one of his students came to him with the question, "Professor, what is your idea of the structure of the atom." "What," said Kelvin, "The structure of the atom? Why, don't you know, the very word 'atom' means the thing that can't be cut. How then can it have a structure?" "That," remarked the facetious young man, "shows the disadvantage of knowing Greek."”

“To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.”

Source : Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.54, Broadway Books

“Success is a process that never ends.”

“I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.”

“I tried to do it all myself: be mommy and camp counselor and art teacher and prereading specialist (and somehow, in my off-hours, to do my own work). I tried my absolute best. And like so many of the moms around me, I started to go a little crazy.”

Source : Judith Warner (2006). “Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety”, p.28, Penguin

“It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact.”

“Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.”

Source : James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”