Laulumaa Quotes & Sayings

If you are a human being, you might as well face it. You are going to rub a lot of people the wrong way. — Jane Wagner

In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility. — J.L. Austin

Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining. — Walter Lippmann

If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line. — John Harrison

to reach the kind of success you want you, must know and understand that 'Success is a state of Mind', as long as you never stop thinking, you can achieve whatever, — R.L. Welch

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors. — Jay McInerney

As a rule, almost all of them are Midwesterners ... This area of the country, what are we to say of this area of the country, Ms. Beadsman? ... Both in the middle and on the fringe. The physical heart and the cultural extremity. Corn, a steady waning complex of heavy industry, and sports. What are we to say? We feed and stoke and supply a nation much of which doesn't know we exist. A nation we tend to be decades behind, culturally and intellectually. What are we to say about it? — David Foster Wallace

I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it's mostly for their own good. — Suzanne Collins

When you are at the end of the road, turn around and take another road. I promise it will be less painful. — Debasish Mridha