Laris Quotes & Sayings

A teacher is a person who used to think he liked children. — Joey Lauren Adams

If you are going to challenge a giant wave, you better be a giant rock! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Use it or lose it is a cliche because it's true. — Julian Cope

I love my kids. I'm crazy about them. — Colin Farrell

The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind -jump in. — Charles R. Swindoll

My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project. — Lukas Foss

I have friends, and being with them is enough for me. I don't need to do something crazy. — Nicola Peltz

You from the IRS? The man's voice was deep and wet, like mud slipping down a drain. — Carl Hiaasen

Worry is the most popular form of suicide. Worry impairs appetite, disturbs sleep, makes respiration irregular, spoils digestion, irritates disposition, warps character, weakens mind, stimulates disease, and saps bodily health. It is the real cause of death in thousands of instances where some other disease is named on the death certificate. — William George Jordan

I speak and help some folks only because I believe they may be god in flesh, testing me for politeness. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so. — James S. Coleman

I ran for political office in the Hamptons once in a war I was having with the village. I came in, there were four people running, and I came in around third. It was over my food market - they arrested me. I just wanted to go for office because I thought it would be an interesting to do. — Jerry Della Femina

Nothing in the world matter more than life. You have a long road to walk and a lot of lessons to learn if you don't know that. — Philippa Gregory

We left the nursery in silence, Ma smoking a roll-up, looking like she hadn't slept in a week or maybe like she had slept for a whole week. When the nursery was just a grubby finger smudge behind us Ma looked down at me and said in her poshed-up telephone voice: "Will you speak to Janie about swearing? Fuckin' busybody!"

I laughed and swung our linked hands.

"Aye, fuckin' busybody."

Pleas of laughter escaped us and spiraled up into the hot, blue Scottish sky. We laughed all the way home — Kerry Hudson

Humph! Promptly spoken. But I won't allow that, seeing that it would never suit my case, as I have made an indifferent, not to say a bad, use of both advantages. Leaving superiority out of the question, then, you must still agree to receive my orders now and then, without being piqued or hurt by the tone of command. Will you? — Charlotte Bronte