Bruffee Conversation Quotes & Sayings

One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament. — David Lange

I have an eclectic pallet of music that I listen to. It depends on my mood. — Tika Sumpter

Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used to heaping on yourself. Such self-bashing is never useful. If you indulge in it, your writing doesn't stand a chance. So when your mind turns on you, turn it back, stamp it down, shut it up, and keep writing. — Gail Carson Levine

The phone ring so I go in the kitchen and answer it. Got a little — Kathryn Stockett

By late autumn the yard would grow thick with fallen leaves, causing the landlady to heave many deep sighs. — Takashi Hiraide

When will we realise what we are doing?? — Deyth Banger

Faith and Doubt cannot reside in the same place; as soon as you have a glimmer of doubt, no matter how much you do, feel, vibrate, and affirm, you are showing the Universe that you do not really believe, you are just 'trying' out the concept. — Malti Bhojwani

For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system whose ambitions are endless. They want to manage every second of our lives, every expenditure that we make. And the schools are the training ground to create a population that's easy to manage. — John Taylor Gatto

The WELLians were learning how to turn their private experiences into a public commodity. — Lee Siegel

I was thinking about stabbing myself in the face - not actually considering stabbing myself in the face, but thinking that it would be a physical expression of how I felt. — Catherine Lacey

The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth. — Paul Gibbons

My father is doing a radio program - classical music. He has a beautiful speaking voice and that's his passion in life, his music. My mother lives in Melbourne and is an avid photographer. She's also started writing for a magazine out there and she submits poems, very funny ones, and articles. In some way or other, my family is always doing something with the media. — Olivia Newton-John

No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular. — Karlheinz Stockhausen

God's forgiving and forgetting heart doesn't document every mistake we commit. — Euginia Herlihy

And I could believe that it has been the same with him; he was alive from the desire of the woods. — Angela Carter