Elaines Toffee Quotes & Sayings

Even mistakes can get you one step further. — Marc Jacobs

She'd been living in a prison since the day she'd been born, even after leaving her mother, a prison of fear and shame and lowered expectations, and she'd been so accustomed to her circumscribed life that she had not recognized the bars. — Dean Koontz

Until very recently, most knowledge was inaccessible to people who couldn't read text. But this is changing. The computer opens up other channels of gaining knowledge. If someone is blind, we now have very good machines that will read to him. If someone can't recognize letters, he also will have access to knowledge through sound and images. — Seymour Papert

Personal responsibility is not only undervalued but actually discouraged by the standard classroom model, with its enforced passivity and rigid boundaries of curriculum and time. Denied the opportunity to make even the most basic decisions about how and what they will learn, students stop short of full commitment. — Salman Khan

A transaction is a commercial favor. — Ben Tolosa

I have always felt that if I am very personal and connected with what I myself am living, my writing will transcend ecclesial boundaries. — Henri Nouwen

I think that it's not enough to do the little Band-Aid things of having celebrities come and read to children. Not that we don't need to read to children, but we don't need to just do it one time and feel good about it. I think we need to think long range about poor people and their relationship to libraries. — Sandra Cisneros

There's no such thing as a perfect piece of writing. Just as there's no such thing as perfect despair. So — Haruki Murakami

I've always wanted to have a radio show. It has been a dream of mine for a long time. With a radio show I can sit in a studio, or ultimately even sit in my own living room, and talk to hundreds of thousands of people. — Marianne Williamson

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths! — Edgar Allan Poe

I'm not a big splurger of money, but my guilty pleasures do lie within BMWs. I get roped in. — Tom Felton

It is the surface I am interested in. Because the surface is the inside. — Lisette Model

Friends act like friends — A.S. King

When you don't understand what is happening, you need to wait, trust God, and rest in His care. He is always faithful to His own. — Jim George