“I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the usual business of thinking that the next generation is hopeless. Every generation has said that about every younger generation.” ThinkingLittlesSaidWholeKidsNextAttentionGenerationsHopelessUsualNext GenerationAttention SpanYounger GenerationCranky Author:Robin McKinley
“When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.” LittlesSchoolTakenGrewGrew UpUniversityUsualBeatenPublic School Book:Nightmare Abbey Source: Nightmare Abbey
“The usual bad poem in somebody's Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one's teeth.” LittlesHabitCarefulTeethUsualBrushing Author:Randall Jarrell