Doerflingers Department Quotes & Sayings

Writing has certain advantages; film is another way to tell a story. An experienced filmmaker will take what she needs from the book and leave out other things. With adaptations, you never get the texture of the writing: it's a different mode. — Jhumpa Lahiri

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher. — James S. Coleman

Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair — Federico Garcia Lorca

Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain. — Dean Koontz

You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor and an A-minus feel like a slap in the face. — Taylor Mali

Love beats fear... if you just let it. — F.J. Dagg

Don't choose the one who's beautiful to the world, but rather, choose the one who makes your world beautiful. — Harry Styles

[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of feminist theory and cultural and media studies. — Camille Paglia

Since I was a child, my father was sick. I've always known him to be that way. That's why I'm proud of him - he has a disease he's obviously struggling with, but he's not letting it stop him from doing what he wants to do. — Laila Ali

The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers. — Thomas Sowell