10577 Quotes & Sayings

Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else - we are always doing something with it. Its what we choose to do with it that is important. There are a range of contemporary literacies available to us - while print literacy was the first mass media, it is now one of the mass media. — David Barton

Order is the greatest grace — John Dryden

If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two hours every day listening to Johann Sebastian Bach and, man, it's all there. If they want to improvise around a theme,which is the essence of jazz, they should learn from the master. He never wastes a note, and he knows where every note is going and when to bring it back. Some of these cats go way out and forget where they began or what they started to do. Bach will clear it up for them. — Coleman Hawkins

You aren't allowed to decide because you are really bad at making decisions. — Allie Brosh

There's such a void in the medical system. When my husband was sick, it became very apparent to me that the nurses were doing the doctor's job, and the doctors were doing the disease job, so no one was caring for the patient and the loved one. — Donna Karan

Fine,' Jared snapped. 'But if you try cuddling up to me tonight ... so help me, O'Shea.
Ian chuckled. ' Not to sound overly arrogant, but to be perfectly honest, Jared, were I so inclined, I think I could do better. — Stephenie Meyer

My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world. — Warwick Davis

If attachment is an evil, we must look for its cause in the scandal of birth, for to be born is to be attached. Detachment then should apply itself to getting rid of the traces of this scandal, the most serious and intolerable. — Emil Cioran

What Nixon and Kissinger began, Pol Pot completed. — John Pilger

The middle income families in America have been crushed over the last four years, — Mitt Romney

I am a disciplined person. When I am writing, I write for 7-8 hours. — Amish Tripathi

Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is. — Sri Chinmoy

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. — Confucius

When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old. — Jon Landau

Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the bar. — John Perry