Aleksandria Tuletorn Quotes & Sayings

Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts. — John Lubbock

There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin. — James Joyce

Reading Proust nearly silenced Virginia Woolf. She loved his novel, but loved it rather too much. There wasn't enough wrong with it - a crushing recognition when one considers Walter Benjamin's assessment of why people become writers: because they are unable to find a book already written that they are completely happy with. And — Alain De Botton

To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss. — Gautama Buddha

I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom. — Candace Cameron Bure

The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty or thirty thousand natives died of hunger, some mothers even killing their own children and eating them. — Bartolome De Las Casas

Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be. — Chuck Berry

I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social. — Miles Teller

If your brain does not receive sufficient stimulus, it might find something else to do - it daydreams, it wanders, it thinks about itself. If this goes on too long, it can affect your mind's normal functioning. Chronic boredom correlates with depression and attention deficits. — Deborah Blum

As a rule, only the poor are generous. — Honore De Balzac

One of the frustrations of having a mind trained to think and consider possibilities was that it couldn't simply be stopped once engaged. — Mel Odom

A gripper of a read ... Silence revives the cliff's-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory's death. — Bruce Barcott

How do you know? Maybe you're just out of the loop, maybe those orthogonal stealthnets are running you the way you think you're running Rakshi. You think everyone on the planet's a puppet except for Colonel Jim Moore? — Peter Watts

I'd take out an army, burn down an entire city, and throw the world into chaos if I had to in order to keep Kat out of that place. — Jennifer L. Armentrout