Debbiejeffreybooks Quotes & Sayings

Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects. — Umberto Eco

She was explaining to me that I had won nothing, that in the world there is nothing to win, that her life was full of varied and foolish adventures as much as mine, and that time simply slipped away without any meaning, and it was good just to see each other every so often to hear the mad sound of the brain of one echo in the mad sound of the brain of the other. — Elena Ferrante

It's clear that we imitate the behaviors of others, whether consciously or not. We are especially keen to see what they're doing when the situation is unfamiliar or ambiguous. And change situations are, by definition, unfamiliar! So if you want to change things, you have to pay close attention to social signals, because they can either guarantee a change effort or doom it. — Chip Heath

Get in God's word every day. God's word equips us for everything we do. — Stephen Kendrick

Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan ... Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as here on Flatbush, to be its grubby, enduring self. — Jonathan Lethem

I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar. — Randy Bachman

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. — Gioachino Rossini

Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases and tones of voice and facial expressions and habits and demeanors and convictions and beliefs. The more admirable the hero is and the more intense your admiration is, the more profound will be your transformation. In the case of Jesus, he is infinitely admirable, and our admiration rises to the most absolute worship. Therefore, when we behold him as we should, the change is profound. — John Piper

Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown. — Leigh Steinberg

Neither of us can do anything for forever. Because forever passed away, long ago. — Pleasefindthis

Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else. — Tracy Kidder

No matter what happens I'll keep on moving. Until this life runs out of me I'll keep on walking (Allen Walker) — Katsura Hoshino

Remember where you came from. — Donald Rumsfeld