Ann Renee Collier Quotes & Sayings

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts. — Friedrich Nietzsche

When Sting arrived on Tyneside in November 1992, to receive his degree, he informed me that it was no longer me who was the skint one. — James Berryman

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If you want to pass this class, and if you want to be a lawyer, working for it isn't enough. You'll need to bleed for it. — J.J. McAvoy

The problem began with his telomeres. What is a telomere? Picture the little plastic bits on the end of your shoelaces. Imagine each time you tie your shoes, you have to clip off a little bit of that plastic part to get it to go through the lace holes. After you've done this enough times, the plastic tip is gone and the shoelace starts to unravel. Once the laces unravel enough, it's impossible to tie your shoes, and you walk around looking like a goober. — Scott Sigler

It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame. — Joan Fontaine