Exactas Fcen Quotes & Sayings

Some people say they're retired and it means they have time to do things they want to do. I have always had the privilege to engage in my hobbies as if they were work. And they are. So hobbies are work, but work that you want to do; they are play. Retirement? That sounds like you're going to passively walk into the sunset and disappear. — Diane Keaton

To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century. — Bertrand Russell

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms. — Doris Lessing

One can imagine that if humanity suddenly disappeared from the planet, the cat would shrug its shoulders, raise its tail, and return to its forest habitat, there to live as its ancestors have done for two million years, forever in search of something small, furry, and squeaky to play with. — Eric Chaline

Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The business of love is
cruelty which,
by our wills,
we transform
to live together. — William Carlos Williams

Ye can stick your comfort straight up your arse, MacKenzie, and your goddamned stiff prick, too! — Diana Gabaldon

All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think. — Ken Robinson

I wish I were taller and thinner but the hair you can do something about. — Hillary Clinton

Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads. — Erica Jong

One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have windows with trees in them. — Bel Kaufman

I knew why he chose the brown. It was the plainest of my dresses, certainly drab in his eyes, but all the better to contrast and showcase the red he'd have me wear tomorrow. I had no doubt he'd ordered the snow itself as the perfect backdrop, and surely he'd ordered the sun to shine in the morning so as not to deter the crowds. — Mary E. Pearson

We were alone together, we were an us. — Augusten Burroughs