Bricht School Quotes & Sayings

Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. — Eugene V. Debs

I think that the pendulum will swing back to the other side one day. — Susan Anton

If I drag it up from the bottom of the river, if I dig deep into that muddy floor and pull it up, even if I get most of it wrong, is it mine to tell? — Jon Chopan

Teachers thought I was stupid, parents believed I was retarded, lecturers assumed I took drugs but I was a writer. — Daniel Marques

There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head! — John Hancock

Excellence is not an act, but habit. — Aristotle.

It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world. — Colm Toibin

Concentrate on your strengths and talents to change your situation, and avoid those pity-parties. Absorbing the blows and present pain is a quality of greatness. Measure yourself against the goals and standards you have set for yourself, rather than comparing yourself to others and feeling discouraged or useless. — Archibald Marwizi

I have already discovered that it is useless to ask neuroscientists questions that lie outside their specialty. The dopamine guys know the dopamine guys, but they don't know the cognitive-processing guys. — Karen Pryor