#thin

When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears. ↗

— Leslie Mann

#buy #cab #cookies #did #furniture

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. ↗

— Horace Mann

#nothing #others #ourselves #undoing

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. ↗

— Horace Mann

#death #different #different thing #during #fear

I didn't think, 'I want to do dramas or I want to do comedies' - I wasn't clear in that way. ↗

— Leslie Mann

#comedies #dramas #i #think #want

I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy. ↗

— Leslie Mann

#drama #harder #i #people #than

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#anything #becoming #dizzy #only #physics

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#art #beginning #culture #dew #distant

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#america #because #car #doomed #failure

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#beginning #end #just #meant #never

It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions. ↗

— Ed McMahon

#around #build #community #downtown #hard