Clotiel Williams Quotes & Sayings

Wow. Who would want a fish for a pet when they could have a turtle?! — Christopher Paul Curtis

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness. — Honore De Balzac

Most learning problems exist not within the child but in the inadequacy of the system to find a way to teach them. — Gay Su Pinnell

When I learn something, when I know something, when I find something. I always want to share it. Because life is better when you share it. — Oprah Winfrey

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built. — James Dobson

When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like to other people. And the moment you do it's a formula for yourself, and then you're imitating yourself, and then nobody likes you and they dont know why. — Carol Channing

True vice, my lady, would frighten us all, if it did not wear the mask of virtue. (p.56) — Emery Lee

He had a theory that bedroom Amharic and bedside Amharic were really the same thing: Please lie down. Take off your shirt. Open your mouth. Take a deep breath ... The language of love was the same as the language of medicine. — Abraham Verghese

I was carrying a beautiful alcoholic conflagration around with me. The thing fed on its own heat and flamed the fiercer. There was no time, in all my waking time, that I didn't want a drink. I began to anticipate the completion of my daily thousand words by taking a drink when only five hundred words were written. It was not long until I prefaced the beginning of the thousand words with a drink. — Jack London

Zeus, gives voice to the democratic political vision of Athens: I should like them all to have a share; for cities cannot exist, if a few only share in the virtues, as in the arts. And further, make a law by my order, that he who has no part in reverence and justice shall be put to death, for he is a plague of the State.[6] — C.C. Pecknold

I wanted to write two thousand words a day, and if I wrote a thousand words a day I was happy. — Neil Gaiman

Time is a curious thing: For years you take it for granted, then one day something happens and you are reminded of how precious it really is... — Jason R. Hemmings

And then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two
depending on your definition of what I did to Custer ... — Sherman Alexie