Foskos Quotes & Sayings

Instead of revamping school policies to welcome every child, many school systems are bent on revamping the students to conform to their schools. — Alexandra Robbins

With adolescent Nietzscheanism, she already planned to escape on the world's reversals from the sense of suffocation that seemed to her to be eclipsing her family, her sisters, and mother. She, she told herself, would move brightly along high places and stop to trespass and admire, and if the fine was a heavy one - well, there was no good in saving up beforehand to pay it. Full of these presumptuous resolves, she promised herself that if, in the future, her soul should come starving and crying for bread it should eat the stone she might have to offer without complaint or remorse. Relentlessly she convinced herself that the only thing of any significance was to take what she wanted when she could. She did her best. — Zelda Fitzgerald

Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest risk-taking of all time in film. I don't think anything had even seen anything quite like it. The photography was also unlike anything we'd seen. The odd coldness of the filmmaker towards the character reflects his own egomania and power, and yet a powerful empathy for all of them
it's very interesting. It still holds up, and it's still shocking. It takes storytelling and throws it up in the air. — Martin Scorsese

By 1986 the CIA was spending 70 per cent of its entire operations budget funding a Muslim jihad to kill Russians. The whole campaign was managed by a bunch of Islamists who were giving the lion's share of the US money and weapons to people who wanted to kill Americans. The US was happy to use Islam as a rallying cry. The CIA funded the printing of Korans to be distributed throughout the region, and the University of Nebraska produced primary-school textbooks, known as 'the ABC of Jihad', which taught children the alphabet and to count with Kalashnikovs and swords instead of apples and oranges, and were filled with images of Islamic warriors. Alphabet — Christina Lamb

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled. — Eric Hoffer

After 'The Matrix,' I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognize me. — Carrie-Anne Moss

Who cares about winning? We should focus on serving. — Justin Trudeau

It ain't where you're from, its where you're going to — Bob Dylan

You know, a lot of the people that are running. We want to go in; we want to have majorities. It's very important. — Donald Trump

Pretty, pretty please, don't you ever ever feel like you're less than, less than perfect. — Pink

our humanity is all we have and all that illuminates an otherwise dark world. — Noah Beck

But you must be patient and careful; nor should you expect to become an accomplished archer without long and severe training. — Maurice Thompson

So much in life seems inflexible and unchangeable, and part of the joy of running and especially racing is the realization that improvement and progress can be achieved. — Nancy Anderson

One listened and one remembered. I listened as best I could, but there were no hooks in my head to hang much of it on. — Sheri S. Tepper