Collingwood School Quotes & Sayings

If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect. — Brian Eno

I had been in love all year, or at least since the first week in September, when a boy named Martin Collingwood had given me a surprised, appreciative, and rather ominously complacent smile in the school assembly. I never knew what surprised him; I was not looking like anybody but me; I had an old blouse on and my home-permanent had turned out badly. — Alice Munro

All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and voila, the rest of your life you're green. — Tess Callahan

In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Live in moment, every day is the new beginning of life and every night is the end of life. — Santosh Kalwar

I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider. The decider is a shared and joint responsibility. — Arlen Specter

If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked. — Gilles Deleuze

If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them. — Yogi Berra

Dying is easy, getting the dental floss off your finger and into the trash is hard. — Gregor Collins

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX THE FLAW IN THE PLAN — J.K. Rowling

Treasure is stored in the ruined places.
Do not break the hearts of the poor and heartbroken people — Rumi

Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla doesn't do as well as the less intelligent but more-fecund rat, which doesn't do as well as the still-less-intelligent but still-more-fecund cockroach, which doesn't do as well as the minimally-intelligent but maximally-fecund bacterium. — Isaac Asimov

The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves. — Michel De Montaigne

Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado. — Tom McClintock