D H Conley High School Quotes & Sayings

( ... ) rationality is a very narrowly restricted skill. — Noam Chomsky

Books are the plane, the train, and the road. They are are the destination. They are the journey. They are home. — Anonymous

Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again ... ?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place. — Tatiana Maslany

We made a rule," I whispered.
"Unlike you, I don't follow rules." He didn't give me a chance to respond. His lips met mine and stole my willpower. — Kasie West

How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy? — Alan Watts

People missed things. People didn't notice; people didn't care. People's own misperceptions made black into white, made grey into whatever they wanted it to be. — Judith Ivory

There cannot be an answer until there is a prayer. — Woodrow M. Kroll

When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby. — Nigerian Proverb

There's nothing wrong with fame, but to seek out the spotlight just to be on TV for the sake of being on TV, and to put your children on there, I think, is especially disgusting. — Jon Glaser

Duty is not bound by debt, nor is it reconciled by accomplishment. — Anthony Lechner

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation. — John Battelle

It takes money to make money, even begging. Humans are herd animals. If a stranger's bleeding to death beside the road, most people won't stop to offer a Band-Aid. But get the ball rolling with a couple Good Samaritans, and before you know it you've got more eager philanthropists than you know what to do with. — Sol Luckman

Sometimes in the company of others I find a disagreeable spirit of competitiveness kicks in and each person is shamed into spending rather more than he would have wished. This is a historically established syndrome, of course. One Magus going to Bethlehem would probably have sprung for a box of After Eights. Three Magi on the same trip found themselves laden with gold, frankincense and myrrh and bitterly comtemplating their overdrafts. — James Hamilton-Paterson

Survivors and prevailers are those who love themselves above failure and everything else except the abstract and mysterious. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I don't know about you, but I've saved cards that old high school flames wrote me as well as those that employees have written me over the years. The power of genuine, customized appreciation will never lose its value, even in a gloomy economy ... in fact, it's probably what we're all thirsty for in this desert of a depression. — Chip Conley