Doody Home Quotes & Sayings

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned. — John Holt

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it. — Jhumpa Lahiri

When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. — Matt Groening

Tell me what scares you and I'll kill it. — Alanea Alder

She wanted a man whose trunk was thick but whose bark was thin, who flowered beautifully, even if only for her. — Matthew Thomas

I'll tell you what's fun - finding the right stewardess and turning her upside down in the back of a plane. — Steven Tyler

I was actually a huge tomboy growing up. — Julia Jones

Eventually, the sun will rise, I'll have to bleed with my butterfly brothers, and the rest of the world will get to see my blue ink, not just you. But here's the thing," he says. "I may bleed every single day for the world, but I bleed the most for you. — Nikki Godwin

Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do. — Richard Ford

A good example brings about so much good, but hypocrisy brings about so much evil. — Pope Francis

He was the only figure able to hold the peace between his uncle — Dan Jones

Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Maybe you should mind your own business.'
'You are my business. My job. You are what I do.'
I whipped around to face him. 'Well if I'm your job, your fired. You creep me out. — Mary Lindsey

I'm religious about salted butter. I don't understand how it happened that everyone thought we should all have sweet butter. I blame the French. — Nora Ephron

Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it's true of everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace. — James Baldwin