Favorite Quotes

The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning. They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present, and prisms reflecting all possible futures. Books are lighthouses erected in the dark sea of time.

--Robbins, Blind soldier in the TV show Gargoyles



Thursday, April 22, 2010

The Value of Boredom

Another quote from Wise Child by Monica Furlong, pg 57

When I had finished my astronomy, I turned unwillingly to the herb beds.
"I thought if you were educated you didn't have to do boring things," I had said to Juniper the day before.
"There are people who think like that," Juniper had said. "Such a pity. Boredom is so valuable." I could not imagine what she meant.


Now that I think about it, if I didn't get so bored during the summer, I wouldn't be so happy to go back to school. If I never got bored, I'd never want to work. What would be the point?
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