Caudien Quotes & Sayings

Usually, as designers, you try to create meaning. — Jake Barton

Kitty Kelley's method, already perfected in her unauthorised and unflattering biographies of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, is to write bestsellers that take what she describes as an 'unblinking look' at their subjects - which might, of course, mean that her eyes are permanently open or permanently closed ... the result is a work so bad that Britons cannot realise how fortunate they are in being unable to buy it. The great mistake with this book is not that it has been published in Britain, but that it has actually been published anywhere else. — David Cannadine

It is five in the morning. I have woken up without any alarm. I have woken up because the thoughts are so loud, and none of them mean me well. — Ned Vizzini

It's a lady with a stick. Are we pirates or what?" They pondered this fact for a moment.
"It's a big stick," observed one of his fellows. — Sean Cullen

The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by the civilian populace. — Janet Reno

There's a problem when we're creating a job you can't do if you have kids," Dennis Van Roekel, former president of the National Education Association, told me. "There are a lot of us who spend too much time working. But ultimately, you need time for family, time for community, time for church." According to a union executive who has negotiated charter school contracts across the country, at many schools teachers are expected to eat lunch with their students, and have no prep period to plan lessons. At others, when a teacher calls in sick, the school will not hire a substitute, but will instead require other teachers to fill in during their prep periods. At one Chicago charter school, teachers complained that they had so little free time during the day that they could not visit the bathroom. — Dana Goldstein