Funny Learners Permit Quotes & Sayings

Birds shouldn't be able to find tears
They are the definition of freedom — Maddy Kobar

I turned my face to him and he kissed me, an unspoken need on his lips. — Cyndi Tefft

Men die. It's practically what they're for. — Catherynne M Valente

A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions ... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer
because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement. — Ayn Rand

You know, it's hard as a writer to lose characters (and actors) you like. You really don't want them to die because you're not going to get to see them anymore. — Michael Loceff

In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device. — Joe Sabia

A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr. — William Benton Clulow

Not that I play guitar anywhere near as well as she sings, but I think I have always had a tendency to play solos the same way, in emotional relation to the structure of the song. I choose simple lines, and only play what seems emotionally relevant, and often express that emotion in time, that is in play or resistance to the set time of the song. — Matthew Zapruder

It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops and let them revert to their primitive state of wildness. [ ... ] In political civilization, the state is an abstraction and the relationship of men utilitarian. Because it has no roots in sentiments, it is so dangerously easy to handle. Half a century has been enough for you to master this machine; and there are men among you, whose fondness for it exceeds their love for the living ideals which were born with the birth of your nation and nursed in your centuries. It is like a child who in the excitement of his play imagines he likes his playthings better than his mother. — Rabindranath Tagore

The walls are the publishers of the poor. — Eduardo Galeano

Married life is an existence with bars around it. — Al Goldstein

Without an opportunity, their abilities would have been wasted, and without their abilities, the opportunity would have arisen in vain. — Niccolo Machiavelli