Glenconner Stellenbosch Quotes & Sayings

A child is imprinted not by simply teaching. But their attention is like soft clay. The attention field of adults is stratified. They are like hard clay and we push them on each side of the child's attention field. — Frederick Lenz

Tried to focus on a particular aspect of this historical moment: the failure of mourning. This is something I haven't seen a great deal of in the writing around this disaster. And my view is that you write about disaster by writing around it, by writing allusively. — Teju Cole

In the embers shining bright
A garden grows for thy delight,
With roses yellow, red, and white.
But, O my child, beware, beware!
Touch not the roses growing there,
For every rose a thorn doth bear. — Richard Watson Gilder

You are a sad, sad little man and you have my pity.
- Buzz Lightyear — Cathy East Dubowski

No man can escape the shadow of his own character." Let us hope we are casting the right kind of shadow! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island. — Renzo Piano

When you write, you are telling a story ... to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself ... over and over again. — Kai Strand

She may not have believed in God, but I'm pretty certain God believed in her. — Rosamunde Pilcher

Don't try to live. Let yourself be lived. — Vernon Howard

Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and as reeds which they themselves fearlessly break through whenever new combinations and difficult emergencies demand their highest efforts. — Charles Babbage

Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars. — Norman Mailer

Why is it that we all say we hate our hypocritical politicians being controlled by special interests groups, and every election...we vote them in again. — Colleen Hitchcock

If I could turn into a wisp of smoke, I could slip into them and disappear. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil — Arthur Conan Doyle

My interest in this started one night when I was doing stand-up in a small club in New York. I was talking about texting and I asked for a volunteer who'd met someone recently and had been texting back and forth with them. I read the back-and-forth messages of one gentleman and made jokes about how we were all dealing with some version of this nonsense. I quickly noticed that one woman seemed very puzzled. I asked her why she looked so bewildered, and she explained that this was something that just didn't happen in France, where she was from. This kind of back-and-forth simply didn't exist, she claimed. I asked her, "Okay, well, what would a guy in France text you, if you met him at a bar?" She said, "He would write . . . 'Fancy a fuck?'" And I said, "Whoa. What would you write back?" She said, "I would write yes or no depending on whether I fancied one or not." I was stunned - that kind of makes so much more sense, right? — Aziz Ansari