200909 Quotes & Sayings

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do. — Major Owens

The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me. — Mignon McLaughlin

The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions. — Donald Barthelme

You've made a beast of yourself,- to the beasts you may go. — H.G.Wells

There is no better life coach than LIFE, you attend class everyday, all you have to do is listen to the message — Carl Henegan

I have already exceeded the amount of work my head can bear. — Theodore Guerin

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage. — Pete Townshend

After all, it will be hard to oppress a generation who've been brought up on pop-stars with fire coming out of their tits. — Caitlin Moran

Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries; or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown. — William Hazlitt

As he watched Joe stand, blazing, on the fire escape, Sammy felt an ache in his chest that turned out to be, as so often occurs when memory and desire conjoin with a transient effect of weather, the pang of creation. The desire he felt, watching Joe, was unquestionably physical, but in the sense that Sammy wanted to inhabit the body of his cousin, not possess it. It was, in part, a longing
common enough among the inventors of heroes
to be someone else; to be more than the result of two hundred regimens and scenarios and self-improvement campaigns that always ran afoul of his perennial inability to locate an actual self to be improved. Joe Kavalier had an air of competence, of faith in his own abilities, that Sammy, by means of constant effort over the whole of his life, had finally learned only to fake. — Michael Chabon

Up till recently 75% of all inventions from the time of the industrial revolution is credited to the countries where Protestant ethics were taught — Sunday Adelaja

Police are inevitably corrupted ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available. — Frank Herbert

walkthrough and see if you get anything." "Get — Jodi Picoult

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day. — Sophocles

You would think bearing witness to something like this would make a difference, and yet this isn't so. In the newspapers I have read about history repeating itself in Cambodia. Rwanda. Sudan. — Jodi Picoult