Dodelin Grading Quotes & Sayings

It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to be the case, it is not at all likely that the cabin is entirely inhabited by crying babies smoking inexpensive domestic cigars. — Fran Lebowitz

A house takes on the characteristics of its occupant, and, depending on who lives in it, it can become a very good house or a very strange house. — Kyung-Sook Shin

The sway in Mala's waist, the curve of her hip beneath the folds of her sari, have caught the eye of many young men, each of whom is secretly willing to denounce the colonial prejudice of skin color by falling in love with her. — Nayomi Munaweera

I love the word 'fashion.' That's why I'm using it in the title of this book. Fashion is about change and about creating clothes within a historical context. To me, dismissing fashion as silly or unimportant seems like a denial of history and frequently a show of sexism
as if something that's traditionally a concern of women isn't valid as a field of academic inquiry. When the Parsons fashion department was founded in 1906, it was called 'costume design,' because fashion was then a verb: to fashion. But the word 'fashion' has evolved to mean something much more profound, and those who resist it seem to me to be on the wrong side of history. — Tim Gunn

Human beings are not on earth to be citizens, or taxpayers, or socially engineered pawns of other human beings; rather they are here in order to grow, to transform, to become their authentic selves. — Stephan A. Hoeller

They say I tried to hurt my nurse. I tell them they tried to hurt me first. — C.J. Roberts

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them. — Eleanora Duse

There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want. — Errollyn Wallen

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with ... — Laura Miller

I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me. — J.R.R. Tolkien

For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life. — Jawaharlal Nehru

If you're just mired in privilege, there's nothing to learn; learning appears to be over. — Fred D'Aguiar