Calliper Quotes & Sayings

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. — Gail Godwin

And in a terrible moment, though her body chose to fight the monster that was stalking her, her soul refused such a death and leap from her body to continue its flight. — Kate Danley

He leaned into Le Voir's face with the calliper and breathed on him, holding forth on this new science of which calibration was the test; these measurements would describe classes of being and we who had provided the parameters would be fit within them. To hear him tell it, this classification of species was the hope of Man. — Claire Robertson

I'm not someone who can dance to a song I don't like. — Win Butler

I love you more than the sun and the stars that i taught how to shine ... You are mine, and you shine for me too I love you yesterday and today And tomorrow, I'll say it again ... I love you more ... — Matthew West

'Scalped' is representative of the kinds of stories I like to read and I like to watch. — Jason Aaron

In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs. — Friedrich Schiller

The Secret is how to die. Since the beginning of time, the secret has always been how to die. — Dan Brown

Who preceded him, he enjoyed her sexual calisthenics, — Arthur Hailey

You deepen the injury. It is sufficient already. — Charles Dickens

Sybil entered, with a plate.
"You're not eating enough, Sam," she announced. "And the canteen here is a disgrace. It's all grease and garbage!"
"That's what the men like, I'm afraid," said Vimes guiltily.
"I've cleaned out the tar in the tea urn, at least," Sybil went on, with satisfaction.
"You cleaned out the tar urn?" said Vimes in a hollow voice. It was like being told that someone had wiped the patina off a fine old work of art.
"Yes, it was like tar in there. There really wasn't much proper food in the store, but I managed to make you a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich."
"Thank you, dear." Vimes cautiously lifted a corner of the bread with his broken pencil. There seemed to be too much lettuce, which is to say, there was some lettuce. — Terry Pratchett

A precise, detached calliper-grip holds the stars and the quarter- moon in arrest: — Adrienne Rich