Blumenfeld Quotes & Sayings

Beauty is not pretty. — Erwin Blumenfeld

It is now quite obvious that the humanists are using public education as the battering ram with which to destroy Christianity in the United States. — Samuel Blumenfeld

The Extrovert Ideal has been documented in many studies, though this research has never been grouped under a single name. Talkative people, for example, are rated as smarter, better-looking, more interesting, and more desirable as friends. Velocity of speech counts as well as volume: we rank fast talkers as more competent and likable than slow ones. — Susan Cain

The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society. — Vicente Del Bosque

I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on. — Pat Barker

I'm so proud to be an Army brat, but it was not an easy life. Moving around so much, skating was that one constant thing I had to hold on to. — Ashley Wagner

The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least from the standpoint of education — Samuel Blumenfeld

Many people wants to be the president ... they have ambition. Just ambition is not enough. — Vitali Klitschko

As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling. — Mary Wortley Montagu

I was an amateur - I am an amateur - and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs. — Erwin Blumenfeld

COMPLETELY.
Utterly.
Frozen.
My eyes drop to the table in front of me when she finishes. Her words are sinking in.
A boy that I'm seriously, deeply, madly, incredibly, and undeniably in love with.
In love with?
That's what she said.
In love with. As in present tense.
She loves me. Layken Cohen loves me. — Colleen Hoover

Because his killing is not a passion of the moment but a compelling urge that has been growing within him sometimes for years, he has completely amalgamated this practice into his lifestyle. — Joel Norris

I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life. — Phil Hartman

As soon as something seems the most obvious thing in the world,it means that we have abandoned all attempts to understanding it. — Bertolt Brecht

The most potent and significant expression of statism is a State educational system. Without it, statism is impossible. With it, the State can, and has, become everything. — Samuel Blumenfeld

My name's Bassington-Bassington, and the jolly old Bassington-Bassingtons - I mean the Bassington-Bassingtons aren't accustomed - "
Old Blumenfeld told him in a few brief words pretty much what he thought of the Bassington-Bassingtons and what they weren't accustomed to ...
"You got to work good for my pop!" said the stout child, waggling his head reprovingly at Cyril.
"I don't want any bally cheek from you!" said Cyril, gurgling a bit.
"What's that?" barked old Blumenfeld. "Do you understand that this boy is my son?"
"Yes, I do," said Cyril. "And you both have my sympathy!"
"You're fired!" bellowed old Blumenfeld, swelling a good bit more. "Get out of my theatre! — P.G. Wodehouse

You must then learn to reproduce, or imitate, the sounds which are different from your own way of speaking, and to do that you must drill. This — Robert Blumenfeld

Day and night I try, in my studio with its six two-thousand watt suns, balancing between the extremes of the impossible, to shake loose the real from the unreal, to give visions body, to penetrate into unknown transparencies. — Erwin Blumenfeld

Your style is formed by what you can't do. — Larry Gelbart

If you detect something mindless about American education, it's because the mind has been taken out of it. Only visible behavior counts. — Samuel L. Blumenfeld

I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on. — Jonah Lomu

The process of dehuminazing the locals was under way, and it had very little to do with veracity. The Puritan narratives would continue that process and bring the devil into the mix. At least John Smith didn't think Satan was involved. — Thomas C. Foster

The plain, unvarnished truth is that public education is a shoddy, fraudulent piece of goods sold t to the public at an astronomical price. It's time the American consumer knew the extent of the fraud which is victimizing millions of children each year. — Samuel Blumenfeld

If I could have you after every nightmare, I'd have ten a night. — Sandra Brown