Bychance Quotes & Sayings

The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere
to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89) — Joseph Campbell

A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders. — Curt Sachs

At one point, 'feminist' became a pejorative term. How did that happen? If you're a feminist, you're basically saying you're a humanist. — Julianne Moore

I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either. — Jeremy Lin

It was all here for me, just as it has all been here for you, the best and the worst of Western Civilization, if you cared to pay attention: music, finance, government, architecture, law and sculpture and painting, history and medicine and athletics and every sort of science, and books, books, books, and teachers and role models.
People so smart you can't believe it, and people so dumb you can't believe it. People so nice you can't believe it, and people so mean you can't believe it. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company ... — Nan Fairbrother

Always find the funny. — Amy Susan Crohn

If I waited to be in the mood to write, I'd barely have a chapbook of material to my name. Who would ever be in the mood to write? Do marathon runners get in the mood to run? Do teachers wake up with the urge to lecture? I don't know, but I doubt it. My guess is that it's the very act that is generative. The doing of the thing that makes possible the desire for it. — Dani Shapiro

We weren't friends[ ... ]We were more like jigsaw pieces, each of us part of the same big picture. There are people like this wherever you go. They are part of the same mystery as you are, but you can't quite tell how you fit together. The world is a puzzle, and we can't solve it alone. — Lemony Snicket

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens. — Iain Banks

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write. — Grace Paley

Had their physical attractions proved insufficient because she had unconsciously asked more from them than they were able to give? — Josephine Tey

Do you know why hurricanes have names instead of numbers? To keep the killing personal. No one cares about a bunch of people killed by a number. '200 Dead as Number Three Slams Ashore' is not nearly as interesting a headline as 'Charlie kills 200.' Death is much more satisfying and entertaining if you personalize it.
Me, I'm still waitin' for Hurricane Ed. Old Ed wouldn't hurt ya, would he? Sounds kinda friendly. 'Hell no, we ain't evacuatin'. Ed's comin'! — George Carlin

You hate me because deep down you want to be me — Bradley Bowman

I don't like technology and all that. I'm a farm boy. I would rather live in that time when you had to provide for your family. I don't know. I'm a country kid, so I don't like modern technology. — Travis Fimmel