Janet Bashen Quotes & Sayings

My writing life has included the struggle to bring up three children. What I do three or four times a year is take myself off to a hotel room to unblock a problem. — Jojo Moyes

Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a result, there is some loss of confidence in the great achievements of technology. — Thomas Keating

Capuchin monkeys have no faith in America; they hold to no dream — Don Watson

The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies and accepted assumptions, whereas the latter figures out how to change whatever gets in the way of doing right by kids. 'But we've always ... ', 'But the parents will never ... ', 'But we can't be the only school in the area to ... ' - all such protestations are unpersuasive to great educators. If research and common sense argue for doing things differently, then the question isn't whether to change course but how to make it happen. — Alfie Kohn

At last the play was ended. All had grown dark. The tears streamed down his face. Looking up into the sky there was nothing but blackness there too. Ruin and death, he thought, cover all. The life of man ends in the grave. Worms devour us. Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe Should yawn - — Virginia Woolf

We will absolutely respect the law until we are in government at the national level and can change it. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

Most business problems can be solved if you can teach yourself to look beyond the dollar sign. — Harvey MacKay

If God is anonymous, let it be. — Santosh Kalwar

I love New York. I was in New York at the age of 13, at the School of American Ballet, walking around the subways in my little bunhead and thinking I was so cool. — Teri Polo

In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality - no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful smells of the street, and dirt ... Nothing except eating, if that, and the frenzy of the bed. — Susan Sontag

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction? — Margaret Carlson

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed. — James Dean

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength. — San Juan De La Cruz

I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry. — Alexander McCall Smith