Distinctives Schools Quotes & Sayings

Create and maintain a beautiful environment and surroundings in which to live. — Bryant McGill

I wonder now about Demeter and Persephone. Maybe Persephone was glad to run off with the king of death to his underground realm, maybe it was the only way she could break away from her mother, maybe Demeter was a bad parent the way Lear was a bad parent, denying nature, including the nature of children to leave their parents. Maybe Persephone thought Hades was the infinitely cool older man who held the knowledge she sought, maybe she loved the darkness, the six months of winter, the sharp taste of pomegranates, the freedom from her mother, maybe she knew that to be truly alive death had to be part of the picture just as winter must. It was as the queen of hell that she became an adult and came into power. Hades's realm is called the underworld, and so are the urban realms of everything outside the law. And as in Hopi creation myths, where humans and other beings emerge from underground, so it's from the underground that culture emerges in this civilization. — Rebecca Solnit

Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they're doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown. — Andy Warhol

Lose his face? Like it would fall off?" the voice asked, confused.
The prince laughed. "Man, what rock have you been living under?"
"Why? What's so wrong with living under a rock?" The voice sounded hurt. — Antje Hergt

It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime. — Kim Dotcom

My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis. — Elizabeth Gilbert

What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones. — Harry Graf Kessler

I was a corporate hatchet man, and it's impossible for me to turn that off. It's this curse when I walk into businesses: 'That needs to be fixed, that needs to be fixed.' — Al Madrigal

It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State — Winston Churchill