Clavo Quotes & Sayings

Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end. — Holly Black

When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper. — Andy Rooney

And I tried to listen again, because the prosecutor started talking about my soul. — Albert Camus

American students, we are told, are falling behind in reading and math; on test after test, they score below most European students (at the level of Lithuania), and the solution, rather than seeking to engage their curiosity, has been testing and more testing - a dry and brittle method that produces lackluster results. And so resources are pulled from the "soft" fields that are not being tested. Music teachers are being fired or not replaced; art classes are quietly dropped from the curriculum; history is simplified and moralized, with little expectation that any facts will be learned or retained; and instead of reading short stories, poems and novels, students are invited to read train schedules and EPA reports whose jargon could put even the most committed environmentalist to sleep. — Azar Nafisi

The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday. — Erwin Schrodinger

Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her. — Junot Diaz

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'. — John McCarthy

People power. It has no limits. — Vitali Klitschko

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible — Samuel Johnson

The most successful comics are always the hardest-working ones. — Marcus Brigstocke

El clavo que sobresale siempre recibe un martillazo." The nail that sticks out always gets hit by a hammer. We — Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts. — Winston Churchill

Ants offer special advantages for some important kinds of basic biological research. The colony is a superorganism. It can be analyzed as a coherent unit and compared with the organism in the design of experiments, with the individuals treated as the rough analogues of cells. — Bert Holldobler

You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible. I don't mind. What I care about most is that people are reading. — Neil Gaiman