Harpenden 2 Quotes & Sayings

Carter is the only President to ever release his actual IQ from a standardized test; it was 176. That is higher than either Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking, and is well into the genius level. — Robert Chamberlain

The cruelest form of torture one can inflict on a kender is to lock him up. Of course, it is also widely believed that the cruelest form of torture one can inflict on any other species is to lock them up with a kender. — Margaret Weis

Accountability measures allow administrators to require the faculty to "teach to the test," rather than devise the curriculum according to its own judgment. In this way, college professors can be reduced to the same subordinate status to which elementary and secondary school teachers have already been relegated. — Benjamin Ginsberg

Most individuals work much harder to hang on to what they have than to take the necessary risk to shoot for their dreams. — Tony Robbins

According to the Archbishop and the Dalai Lama, when we see how little we really need - love and connection - then all the getting and grasping that we thought was so essential to our well-being takes its rightful place and no longer becomes the focus or the obsession of our lives. We — Dalai Lama XIV

I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in private by consenting adults. — Anna Quindlen

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick. — Joan Cusack

Poetry is a niche genre, sure, but it has a way of opening people up. It opens me up. As with music and art, poetry is an essential human art and discussing its genesis, fruition and prose with somebody legitimately interested is intensely rewarding. — Nicholas Trandahl

I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier. — Laura Haddock

Prologue: There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich wanting more, that of the sick, wanting something different, and that of the traveler, who says, "anywhere but here." - Ralph Waldo Emerson — Mona Simpson

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. — Peter Nivio Zarlenga

I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me! — Edward Weston

Hello," said Natalie. She went up on tiptoes and kissed Sam, depositing the kiss snugly between Sam's cheek and the corner of her mouth. You can say a lot of things with a kiss like that. "You done? — Neil Gaiman

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense."
"Or else a fool. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky