Alexander

“The brain best remembers things that are repeated, rhythmic, rhyming, structured, and above all easily visualized.”
― Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

“But understanding nothing, or very little of the world, and having no desire to understand more than you already do, well, that invites entitlement. What was a privilege becomes a right. And that, I think, is dangerous.”
― Josiah Bancroft, The Fall of Babel

“Donut: I’M JUST GLAD IT DIDN’T KEEP US IN IOWA. DO I LOOK LIKE SOMEONE WHO WOULD VOLUNTARILY VISIT IOWA? THAT’S ALMOST AS BAD AS DELAWARE.”
― Matt Dinniman, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

“No matter how psyched you might have been about the race, consequently, you’d have to think twice about putting your life in the hands of a mysterious loner with a fake name whose closest friends lived in caves and ate mice and still considered him the iffy one.”
― Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen