Cearley Fontenot Quotes & Sayings

What is left of your dream?
Just the words on your stone.
A man who learned how to teach
then forgot how to learn. — Brian May

Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them. — Marilyn Johnson

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity. — Germaine Greer

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. — Hesiod

To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system. — Richard Koch

I believe the most degrading thing in the world is to be treated worse than a starving dog by five growling, muscle-bound thugs, better known as screws! — Stephen Richards

There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him. — Thomas Browne

You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs. — Heston Blumenthal

I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you? — Shannon Hoon

Envy is more irreconcilable than hate. It is the most corroding of all political vices and also a great power in our land. The friends of freedom are content to be envied, but envy not. — Hans F. Sennholz

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find. — Hermann Hesse

I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys. — Edie Falco

Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity. — Joseph Addison

I've been abducted and probed in the anus.
On purpose. — Tom DeLonge

Intellectual activity in a culture is not a one-way flow between the great minds and passive recipients; it is a discourse, a complex marketplace-like conglomeration of intellectual exchanges involving many participants all trying to manipulate the ideas available to them in order to explain, justify, lay blame for, or otherwise make sense of what is happening around them. Everyone, not just the great minds, participates in this complicated process. — Gordon S. Wood