Levitan Cookies Quotes & Sayings

I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don't understand that. Gosh. — Charles M. Schulz

I went to a school that was founded on a lot of very radical ideals of how education should be changed. But what's happening to schools like that sort of all over the country is in economic pressure they're becoming more and more preparatory because that's what people will really pay the money for private schooling for now. — Ezra Miller

Democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion — Rohinton Mistry

But the moment you point at a difference, you enter, regardless of age, an already existing system of differences, a network of identities, all of them ultimately arbitrary and unrelated to your intentions, none of them a matter of your choice. The moment you other someone, you other yourself. When I idiotically pointed at Almir's non-existent difference, I expelled myself from my raja. — Aleksandar Hemon

Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. (Address to Congress on Resigning Commission Dec 23, 1783) — George Washington

The dog pranced delightedly around his feet as if he'd been gone to another planet instead of merely underneath a car. — Maggie Stiefvater

It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it. — Bob Newhart

So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he and the yang share a single flow. — Zhuangzi

Long into my career I harbored a secret sense that thinking and reading and writing, as much as I loved them, did not qualify as real work. — Parker J. Palmer

What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities — Bear Grylls

Life is too short to worry about the consequences when you love someone as I love you. — Sarah Jio

I suppose if a man lived through the ugliest side of love, he might never want to experience it again. — Colleen Hoover

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk. — Ritchie Blackmore

Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say. — Karl Shapiro

Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez