Gradebook Quotes & Sayings

I had been doing MP3 players and handheld computers since 1990-1991, and so they sought me out because of my experience. And about 18 generations of iPod and three generations of iPhone later, I decided to leave Apple. — Tony Fadell

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. — W. H. Auden

It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth. — Jonathan Safran Foer

At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London. — Gerry Beckley

Throughout these pages, my brush weeps in sorrow for what happened in Tiananmen Square.

Not for the first time, a government was turning the guns on its people. Has the world learned nothing from history? — Morgan Chua

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written. — Nora Roberts

In our parts such characters sometimes turn up that, however many years ago you met them, you can never recall them without an inner trembling. — Nikolai Leskov

Because we can't, we don't know how to talk about a movie or a book anymore; the moment has come when movies and novels don't matter, only the time we saw them, read them: where we were, what we were doing, who we were then. — Alejandro Zambra

What wasn't made clear, and what Bill didn't even come close to revealing, was how his deep understanding of the computing needs of businesses would transform the computer business itself over the next several years, further sidelining anyone who, like Steve, chose to focus on the aesthetics and thrills of personal computers. Even though nobody recognized it at the time, Bill was about to take the personal right out of personal computing. Ironically, in so doing, he would leave an opening for Steve to fill - eventually. — Brent Schlender

Miss Mandible wants to make love to me but she hesitates because I am officially a child; I am, according to the records, according to the gradebook on her desk, according to the card index in the principal's office, eleven years old. There is a misconception here, one that I haven't quite managed to get cleared up yet. I am in fact thirty-five, I've been in the Army, I am six feet one, I have hair in the appropriate places, my voice is a barritone, I know very well what to do with Miss Mandible if she ever makes up her mind. — Donald Barthelme

The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures. — Paul Wesley

We ourselves are not something apart from our circumstances. What we are and where we are are one and the same. — Brad Warner

My heart's dark, but it's rising. I'm pulling all the faith I can see. — Bruce Springsteen

How can you take such a risk? This could mean anything! It could mean nothing at all! Haven't you heard of fiction? This might be just from the imagination of a poet! — Jason Ellis

A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that philosophical biologist, or that philosopher sufficiently acquainted with scientific biology, who subjects the modern doctrine of evolution to a thoroughly critical analysis, with a view to detect and to estimate its metaphysical assumptions. — George Trumbull Ladd