Grades Don't Measure Intelligence Quotes & Sayings

By the mid-1950s real estate promoters of the commercial strip were attaching it to the centerless residential suburb. Both strips and tracts expanded under the impact of federal subsidies to developers, but since these subsidies were indirect, it was hard for many citizens or local officials to know what was happening. — Dolores Hayden

Simple formula for the actor: prove you're creative enough to get the job, sane enough to keep the job, and hungry enough to give up everything else to keep them happy. — Brooke Langton

Be just, and fear not.
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,
Thy God's and truth's. — William Shakespeare

My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever. — Alan Garner

May the spirit of death make a clerical error and forget you exist. — John Jackson Miller

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. — Agnes Repplier

To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give. — Tristan Bernard

public display and operatic suffering - an in-your-face owning of one's vulnerability and fucked-upness to the point of embarrassing and offending tight-asses is a powerful feminist strategy. Writing is tough work, I don't see how anyone can really write from a position of weakness. Sometimes I may start out in that position, but the act of commandeering words flips me into a position of power. — Dodie Bellamy

We can choose to be grateful, no matter what. This type of gratitude transcends whatever is happening around us. It surpasses disappointment, discouragement and despair. It blooms just as beautifully in the icy landscape of winter as it does in the pleasant warmth of summer. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

We're so caught up in trying to do everything, experience all the essential things, not miss out on anything important ... We can't read all the good books, watch all the good films, go to all the best cities in the world, try all the best restaurants, meet all the great people ... Life is better when we don't try to do everything. Learn to enjoy the slice of life you experience, and life turns out to be wonderful. — Leo Babauta

I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane. — Beyonce Knowles

Don't be loose today ... for today is guaranteed but tomorrow is not.-RVM — R.v.m.

Why wear white? It's like, forget about dropping something on it. I don't understand how anybody wears white. — Mindy Kaling

Be patient I promise you deeper level will be very deeper level. — Deyth Banger

My doctor found a spot on my lung. He told me it looked like adenocarcinoma, a cancer he attributes to smoking. He didn't need to biopsy it. — Ken Kercheval