Candus Suppelsa Quotes & Sayings

I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

In brief, the teaching process, as commonly observed, has nothing to do with the investigation and establishment of facts, assuming that actual facts may ever be determined. Its sole purpose is to cram the pupils, as rapidly and as painlessly as possible, with the largest conceivable outfit of current axioms, in all departments of human thought - to make the pupil a good citizen, which is to say, a citizen differing as little as possible, in positive knowledge and habits of mind, from all other citizens. In other words, it is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own mind pulsates with the great ebbs and flows of popular delusion and emotion, the more admirably he performs his function. He may be an ass, but this is surely no demerit in a man paid to make asses of his customers. — H.L. Mencken

People can be quite cynical. 'The Kills are too cool.' There's been an on-and-off relationship with the music press that loves us and then hates us then loves us again. I don't think any kind of press is reliable. — Alison Mosshart

I think maybe 50 years ago people and businesses felt like they had to choose between maximizing profits and making customers happy or making employees happy, and I think we're actually living in a special time where everyone's hyperconnected, whether through Twitter or blogs and so on. Information travels so quickly that it's actually possible to have it all, to make customers happy through customer service, to make employees happy through strong company cultures, and have that actually drive growth and profits. — Tony Hsieh

She can't possibly be me, though she moves when I move — Veronica Roth

The spirit and soul are the body and brain, which are destructible- that is precisely why they are so precious. And the soul did not escape. The spirit did not steal away on gospel wings. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think. — Catherynne M Valente

It's gratifying that people are watching that [Veep] intently and that hard. So it's been really nice and it's been really fun. — David Mandel

Everything is just the same — Gloria Bradley

Pain is life. Pain is life. Pain is life. — C.L. Wilson

Do not belong to those who only get their thoughts from books, or at the prompting of books,-it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I love being in the archives, traveling, sitting in dusty places and looking at books with brittle pages. I love reading biographies and researching, to make myself informed about whatever political or historical time I'm writing about. From there, a lot of the emotional truths about my characters emerge. — Molly Antopol

A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride. — Shana Alexander

This feels like a really bad movie," I said. "One where you just know everything's going to blow up in a huge mess at the end. — Lisa Brown Roberts