Corries Quotes & Sayings

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson. — John Henrik Clarke

Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done. — Alex Van Halen

she learned words that rolled from her tongue when no one was listening. Firns and striations. Cirques and moraines. Adulation. Sublimation. She fell asleep to their music, and she woke to it. Chatter marks, eskers, and drumlins. Truncated spurs. Corries and tarns. Kames. Eolian loess. Katabatic winds. — Deb Vanasse

I have no doubt that, one way or another, you'll fill the empty spaces left behind. — Neal Shusterman

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound? — John Dewey

I think about curses and pirates. Skeletons guarding booby-trapped hideaways. — Maria Dahvana Headley

I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'. — Kurt Vonnegut

There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo. — Bill Bryson

We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home. — John H. Vincent

If I were you, I'd wake up every day at dawn to see the sun come up. Then I'd go back to bed. I'd screw a different woman every night and mean it when I told her I loved her. I'd read a mystery and stop halfway through so I'd have something to wonder about. I'd see how many grapes I could fit in my mouth. I'd drive a hundred miles an hour. I'd stay sober in the morning, drunk in the afternoon, high at night. I'd have Chinese food an tacos for dinner, spaghetti for breakfast and blueberry pie for lunch. Then I'd have anything I wanted in between, 'cause son" - here he took another hit, then looked at the ground, shaking his head - "pretty much all your choices are about to go away. — Jon Wells

Desecration is the smile on my face. — Anthony Kiedis

And books are such an empowering way to give voice to some of these kids who aren't yet ready to tell their story. Or don't know what their story is, or are trying to figure it out. — Lauren Myracle

Really there are very few adults these days who possess the mental and emotional self-sufficiency necessary for leading satisfactory existence in these remote parts.
When the day light lasts for only five or six hours, when the Never Silent - as the Norsemen called the wind - howls down the corries and the snow is lying so deep that even the deer are unable to reach the croft in search of food, then one learns what it means to be cut off from the outside world, and either one grows to accept and appreciate spells of complete isolation, or else the isolation begins to sap one's confidence and to terrify. — Rowena Farre

He would stay with his brothers out of loyalty, fight alongside his clansmen out of pride, but if he died, it would be for Scotland, for his love of the barren, windswept moors and jagged corries he had been unable to call home for so many years and wanted so desperately to call home again. His passion was his strength, but it was also his greatest weakness. — Marsha Canham

Free was harder to trace...safety always trumped guilt. — Stephenie Meyer

Nobody sets out to make a bad record. — Alex Van Halen