Gradebook Pisd Quotes & Sayings

A young female essayist saying they're influenced by Joan Didion is like a young female singer-songwriter saying they're influenced by Joni Mitchell. — Meghan Daum

I came to recognize the landscape of my life in the lives of many women. Their stories and the places they spoke of spanned a world beyond my experience, from mill towns to suburbs, from logging camps to ethnic neighborhoods, from inner cities to Indian reservations. Few shared my place of origin or the events of my life, but many, it seems, shared my experience. Listening to their stories, I came to understand how women can be isolated by circumstances as well as by distance, and how our experiences, though geographically distinct, often translated into the same feelings. Away from the physical presence of my past, I found it easy to argue that what mattered most was the story, the truth of what we tell ourselves, the versions we pass along to our daughters. But as I stood in the living room of my rock house that afternoon, I was again reminded of the enormous power of this prairie, its silence and the whisper I made inside it. I had forgotten how easily one person can be lost here. — Judy Blunt

Elizabeth smiled warmly. "For you I will allow it, Mr. Trask. How is your wife, sir? Still putting up with you, or has she finally come to her senses and run away?"
Trask laughed, slapping his knee. "I see married life has not tamed that wit of yours, Miss Elizabeth! Well done! Your poor hus- band, to be saddled with such a wench!"
Lizzy assumed a mournful face. "Yes, it is a tragic affair. It is merely a matter of time ere a cell at Bedlam will be his home. — Sharon Lathan

be whispered more now, only spoken of in hushed terms, because Lucas Grantham might — Gilly Macmillan

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. — Albert Camus

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice. — Kurt Vonnegut

Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort. — Helene Cixous

I have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids' stuff. — Katey Sagal

Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen. — Debra Messing

The world was beautiful, the world was particolored, strange and quizzical ... Meaning and essence were not somewhere behind things, they were inside things, in everything. — Hermann Hesse

DRACO looks up at HARRY, and for the first time- at the bottom of this dreadful pit- they look at each other as friends. — J.K. Rowling

It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless. — John Kenneth Galbraith

There are just some things that you can't deny. — Zachary Cole Smith