Gladdened Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand? — Emma Willard

Without a doubt, American teenagers can perform at the top of the world on a sophisticated test of critical thinking. Students at traditional public high schools that took the test in Fairfax, Virginia, also trounced teenagers around the world. — Amanda Ripley

When you fall down, just get up again. — Lindsey Vonn

Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change — Benny Bellamacina

No matter how much you skake and dance, you always get some on your pants. — Allan

Two voices struggled inside me. One that wanted to be good and brave, and one that told the good one to keep her mouth shut. — Stephenie Meyer

When I let go of my own work, my own priorities, I lost the qualities he had been attracted to in the first place. That's how he put it. He loved the woman I was before I was in love with him. — Alexis M. Smith

What is clear to me, always, is that the writing must never lose sight of truth as its ultimate goal. Page after page, the drive to capture what is true, and not what resembles the truth, shapes the work. If, even for a few passages, the tone becomes false - that is, too studied, too limpid, too regimented, too well-phrased - I am obliged to stop and to figure out where I started to go wrong. If I can't, I throw everything away. — Elena Ferrante

My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That's 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local. — Stephen A. Schwarzman

We gave the show away and in return, we received a certain number of minutes per hour for the three-hour show that we could sell to Madison Avenue. One of the first sponsors was MGM Records. — Casey Kasem

Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae. — Ricardo Semler

I'm starting to think about my life, thinking about where I'm going to be in three years time: who I'm going to be with, where I'm going to be situated myself. — Tinie Tempah

For a long time, when it's working, the drink feels like a path to a kind of self-enlightenment, something that turns us into the person we wish to be, or the person we think we are. In some ways the dynamic is simple: alcohol makes everything better, until it makes everything worse. — Caroline Knapp

They say you get a hard-on when you die. Apparently, it doesn't go away. — Marshall Thornton