Freakery Quotes & Sayings

It has always been my conviction that Indian parents who train their children to think and talk in English from their infancy betray their children and their country. They — Mahatma Gandhi

I didn't get to hear the rest, as the skipper poked a red, peeling face out of the wheelhouse and told Billy Lee to get back to work or he wasn't getting paid. The guy looked to be a hundred years old and four feet tall, but when he opened his mouth, even I jumped. — Vincent H. O'Neil

The making of art is no different than prayer. — Rainn Wilson

For me, this is what wild reading is: readers who incorporate reading into their personal identities to the degree that it weaves into their lives along with everything else that interests them. As teachers and parents, we spend a lot of time gnashing our teeth and complaining that kids don't read. Reading is a big deal to us because we know that reading well unlocks academic, professional, and social opportunities, but for readers themselves, reading is just part of who they are. — Donalyn Miller

Thou wilt always rejoice in the evening if thou has spent the day profitably. — Thomas A Kempis

Great Britain, for instance, is too big and too diverse to be home to a small-island civilization, but in modern times the English - though not, I think, other peoples of the island - have cultivated what might be called a small-island mentality: all their most tiresome history books stress, sometimes in their opening words, that their history is a function of their insularity. They still write and read histories with such titles as Our Island Story and The Offshore Islanders.4The conviction that their island "arose from the azure main" and is like a gem "set in the silver sea" resounds in national songs and scraps of verse which they hear repeatedly. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the English invested heavily in naval security. They created the cult of the "English eccentric" - which is a way of idealizing the outcome of isolation. They have projected an image as "a singular race, one which prides itself on being a little mad. — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power. — Junot Diaz

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family. — Elizabeth Edwards

Now angels appear from above, a whole slew of them lighting up the room, and I want to say, Bit late, aren't you? But then I have to smile, because we handled it without them - with Anna leading the way. — Wendy Higgins

I understand basketball is not my entire life. It's only a part of my life. And there are a lot of other things that interest me a great deal ... other goals to seek, and this is how I have balance in life. — Yao Ming