Jake Tyler Brigance: "I can't be you, Lucian." Lucien Wilbanks: "Don't be me, Jake. Be better than me."
— Jake Tyler Brigance(Matthew McConaughey) Lucien Wilbanks (Donald Sutherland), A Time to Kill (1996)
Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
Maria Edgeworth
Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
A type of jellyfish found off the coast of England is the longest animal in the world.
When Voyager 2 visited Neptune it saw a small irregular white cloud that zips around Neptune every sixteen hours or so now known as "The Scooter".
Crows have the largest cerebral hemispheres, relative to body size, of any avian family.
Martha's Vineyard once had its own dialect of Sign Language. One deaf person arrived in 1692 and after that there was a relatively large genetically deaf population that had their own particular dialect of sign language. From 1692-1910 nearly all hearing people on the island were bilingual in sign language and English.
If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
With pointed fangs it sits in wait, With piercing force its doles out fate, Over bloodless victims proclaiming its might, Eternally joining in a single bite. What am I?
"Do not enter lift backwards, and only
when lit up."
-- A sign in a Leipzig elevator.>
"All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts".
