Canlearn Society Quotes & Sayings

May the flowers of spring bring beauty and joy to your world everyday. — Debasish Mridha

These fragile, worn, faded, thin, cheap paper-bound books. They smelled of dust, and mould, and age. They smelled, faintly, of pee, and tobacco, and spilled coffee. They smelled like things which had lived.
They smelled like history. — Lavie Tidhar

The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition — Bruce Lee

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. — Ben Sweetland

We take to the breeze, we go as we please. — E.B. White

People whine, 'I haven't succeeded because I haven't had the breaks.' You create your own breaks. — Chuck Norris

[Brion calls his working relationship with West a natural fit.] His knowledge and understanding of records across the board is great, ... That's the reason why we got along: We don't see music as something that happens in one genre. — Jon Brion

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Our sorry idiot life, our idiot existence, idiot not because it has to be but because it is not what it could be with a little more courage and care. — Thomas Merton

Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books. — A.A. Gill

Life is eternal. You are immortal. You never do die. You simply change form. — Neale Donald Walsch

It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established reader interests. — Denis Dutton

Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business. — James Daly

In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true serpent in the garden. — Libba Bray