1ere Avenue Quotes & Sayings

Story guys are like life highlighters. Your life is all these big blocks of gray text, and then a story guy comes in with a big ol' paragraph of neon pink so that when you flip back through your life, you can stop and remember all the important and interesting places. — Mary Ann Rivers

Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character. — Haley Joel Osment

And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests - and so perfectly within their rights! — Upton Sinclair

We do not exist for ourselves. — Thomas Merton

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status. — Nelson Mandela

If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all. — Mohsin Hamid

I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields. — Meg Rosoff

A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting challenge ... He professes publicly where everyone is invited to come and challenge, [and] at any time he must be willing and able to defend it openly against all comers. The degree is originally a chivalric device-a gauntlet of defiance to all rivals-and not a safe rampart or dug-out for a scholar to hide behind in safe immunity from any challenge. — Hugh Nibley