Famous Diane Ravitch Quotes & Sayings

I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening. — Debra Winger

if you continue to write fiction, every character you create is partly you. — Stephen King

To hug Toni Burgess and Sandy Wilson, the Devil Girlz we'd met in Taylor Creek, Oregon. Correction: former Devil Girlz. There was no sign of leather. Instead Toni was in a dress and had soccer-mom hair, and she said she was going back to teaching school. Sandy just looked sweet. More people were introduced: lawyers for both sides, and His Honor Marlon Sykes, a judge — James Patterson

Brown bird welcomes white wave. Wander no more, dear traveler. — Ann Aguirre

It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and backed down the driveway in the crumpled old Ford. And riding to work, one of the youngest and healthiest passengers on the train, he sat with the look of a man condemned to a very slow, painless death. He felt middle-aged. — Richard Yates

It was the members of the public who didn't seem to care what was happening on the streets around them, who hurried on by when they saw crimes being committed, too cowardly to intervene. Sometimes it seemed like the 'them' was everyone, and the 'us' was simply me, a lone copper engaged in a one-man battle against the injustices of the world. — Simon Kernick

I don't like being left to my own thoughts. — David Sedaris

I knew that I wanted to pursue acting as a profession during my sophomore year of college. One of my Professors (Karen Deacons-Brock) at N.C Central University assigned me to perform a one woman show for my final project and it was then, along with her encouragement, that it was time for me to move to NY in pursuit of a professional acting career. — April Parker Jones

It's maddening; he's like an obnoxious seven-year-old that someone has installed at the helm of a vast international conspiracy. — Ben H. Winters

Data scientist (noun): Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician. - Josh Wills — Rachel Schutt

Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes from freedom of expression and research, the personal power that entitles every Arab citizen to feel that he or she is in fact a citizen, and not just a sheep in some great shepherd's flock. — Edward Said

I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him. — Sugar Ray Leonard

Sometimes Carrot sounded like a civics essay written by a stunned choirboy. — Terry Pratchett