Code The Clown Quotes & Sayings

The surfeit of loss in my life has convinced me it will be easier to be grieved for than to grieve.
Bethia as an old woman about to die
p 257 — Geraldine Brooks

In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a clerk, a referee, a clown, a counselor, a dress-code enforcer, a conductor, an apologist, a philosopher, a collaborator, a tap dancer, a politician, a therapist, a fool, a traffic cop, a priest, a mother-father-brother-sister-uncle-aunt, a bookeeper, a critic, a psychologist, the last straw. — Frank McCourt

But, for the point of wisdom, I would choose / To know the mind that stirs between the wings / Of bees ... — George Eliot

When is revolution legal? When it succeeds! — August Strindberg

No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves.
Fitz in Assassin's Quest — Robin Hobb

It's stupid. There are maps to show you how to get to the place where you want to be but no maps that show you how to get to the time when you want to be. — Anthony Marra

Creating a space and time for reflection and imagination and study presupposes an accumulation of wealth, and behind every accumulation of wealth there are obscure lives subject to labour and sacrifices and oppression without any hope. Every project or image that allows us to to reach out towards another way of being outside the injustice that surrounds us carries the mark of the injustice without which it could not have been conceived. — Italo Calvino

The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat. — Robert A. Heinlein

Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem. — William Blake

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world. — George Bernard Shaw