Impeded Crossword Quotes & Sayings

I always liked clothes; since I was very, very young, I was interested. I studied costume as part of my theatre education. — John Malkovich

Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he loves even a single being, Good will follow. But the Noble One with compassionate heart for all mankind, generates abounding good. — Gautama Buddha

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

That is, sir, there can only be communication, communion, when you and I are on the same level, and with the same intensity, at the same time. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I could smell myself awake with that coffee. — Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them. — Marcus Aurelius

When Abraham Lincoln declared, in 1863, that the battle of Gettysburg must ensure "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth," he was not merely being aspirational; at the onset of the Civil War, the United States of America had one of the highest rates of suffrage in the world. The question is not whether Lincoln truly meant "government of the people" but what our country has, throughout its history, taken the political term "people" to actually mean. In 1863 it did not mean your mother or your grandmother, and it did not mean you and me. Thus America's problem is not its betrayal of "government of the people," but the means by which "the people" acquired their names. This — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality ... These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

Marain, the Culture's quintessentially wonderful language (so the Culture will tell you), has, as any schoolkid knows, one personal pronoun to cover females, males, in-betweens, neuters, children, drones, Minds, other sentient machines, and every life-form capable of scraping together anything remotely resembling a nervous system and the rudiments of language (or a good excuse for not having either). Naturally, there are ways of specifying a person's sex in Marain, but they're not used in everyday conversation; in — Iain M. Banks

It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter. — Samantha Power

As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains. — Patrick White

The future of digital organizations is to be complex enough to act intelligently and nimble enough to adapt to the change promptly. — Pearl Zhu

How All Teachers Can (and Must) Be Reading Teachers — Doug Lemov