Conferring For Teachers Quotes & Sayings

When making a film, if I feel nothing in my body, I can't work. I have to touch. I have to feel. I never stop touching. — Claire Denis

The State of Israel can be proud of what we're doing. — Benjamin Netanyahu

Sure there are times when one cries with acidity,
'Where are the limits of human stupidity?'
Here is a critic who says as a platitude
That I am guilty because 'in gratitude
Sherlock, the sleuth-hound, with motives ulterior,
Sneers at Poe's Dupin as "very inferior".'
Have you not learned, my esteemed communicator,
That the created is not the creator?
As the creator I've praised to satiety
Poe's Monsieur Dupin, his skill and variety,
And have admitted that in my detective work
I owe to my model a deal of selective work.
But is it not on the verge of inanity
To put down to me my creation's crude vanity?
He, the created, would scoff and would sneer,
Where I, the creator, would bow and revere.
So please grip this fact with your cerebral tentacle:
The doll and its maker are never identical. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I am bewildering you a little. Just enough to help you forget what you came to believe, so that you can remember what you've always known. — Martha N. Beck

At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how? — Andrew Solomon

Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do. — Adam Green

I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side. — John F. Kerry

Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle. — Bill Vaughan

He was filled with embarrassment: embarrassment for the human race, its preoccupation with money, it love of swindle. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Guilt had teeth and it ate folks up if they didn't know how to tame it — Michelle Modesto

Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month. — Bob Beauprez

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most. — E.B. White