Quote
"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."
Bo Jackson
Joke
A woman walks into a library and asked if they had any books about paranoia. The librarian says "They're right behind you!"
Fun Fact
Play-Doh started out as a wallpaper cleaner before the head of the struggling company realized the non-toxic material made a good modeling clay for children and rebranded it.
Reading Fact
The longest novel ever written is À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust, at 1,267,069 words long.
History Fact
Beginning in 1909 (and continuing into the 1970s), the Australian government instituted a policy of removing Aboriginal children from their parents and teaching them to reject their Aboriginality.
Movie/TV Trivia
Only Lovers Left Alive
All of the cast members playing vampires wore wigs that were a mix of human, yak, and goat hair, in order to make them look wilder.
Movie/TV Quote
"You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow."
To Have and Have Not, 1944
The racy double entendre wasn’t penned by the credited screenwriters — that’d be Jules Furthman and William Faulkner — but by producer Howard Hawks, who came up with the line at Lauren Bacall’s test screening. She was so good at it, Hawks asked Faulkner to pencil it into the shooting script.
Conversation Starter Where do you want to be ten years from now?
Writing Prompt
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