Courseval Log Quotes & Sayings

Our stories always contain average, ordinary people. They are the most unsuspecting victims of all. — D.J. Weaver

Nobody may come into this room if the door is shut tight (if it is shut not quite latched it is all right) without knocking. The person in this room if he agrees that one shall come in will say "come in," or something like that and if he does not agree to it he will say "Not yet, please," or something like that. The door may be shut if nobody is in the room but if a person wants to come in, knocks and hears no answer that means there is no one in the room and he must not go in.

Reason. If the door is shut tight and a person is in the room the shut door means that the person in the room wishes to be left alone. — Barbara Follett

Sportsmanship is making sure you have respect for the guy you're playing across from. — Warren Moon

Statistically speaking, tracking tended to diminish learning and boost inequality wherever it was tried. In general, the younger tracking happened, the worse the entire country did on PISA. There seemed to be some kind of ghetto effect: once kids were labeled and segregated into the lower track, their learning slowed down. — Amanda Ripley

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. — Mario Andretti

A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed. — Witold Gombrowicz

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing is harder than anything else; at least starting to write is. — Kristin Hunter

This universe and all it is connected with will come to an end. Entropy carries us towards the inevitable omega point, that is why entropy exists. — Peter F. Hamilton

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you. — Wayne Dyer

Is the future, is the past, all that matters to you? Don't you have just a little bit of room for the present? — Orson Scott Card

But we have received a sign, Edith - a mysterious sign. A miracle has happened on this farm ... in the middle of the web there were the words 'Some Pig' ... we have no ordinary pig."
"Well", said Mrs. Zuckerman, "it seems to me you're a little off. It seems to me we have no ordinary spider. — E.B. White