Mabou Pioneers Quotes & Sayings

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it. — Oscar Wilde

It is interesting that we call something good a "dream," but being called a "dreamer" is somewhat of a putdown.
Without dreamers, no dream would ever be given reality, and we would live in a very small and shallow world.
If you are a secret dreamer, it's your time to announce yourself. — Vera Nazarian

Technological change defines the horizon of our material world as it shapes the limiting conditions of what is possible and what is barely imaginable. It erodesassumptions about the nature of our reality, the "pattern" in which we dwell, and lays open new choices. — Shoshana Zuboff

I think it is a great gift to make people laugh, and it shouldn't be underestimated. — Beeban Kidron

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there. — Billie Joe Armstrong

But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then. — William Ralph Inge

And you can feel it in the air, they way the air has somehow been keeping score. — Jeffrey Eugenides

In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York quickly following suit. — Brendan I. Koerner

You see a lot of people out there that say they're country, and they do their little things that are stereotypical country things, but being country is a way of life. — Luke Bryan

Members of the Senate and House, if they want to send troops into war, should be forced to send a family member. That would really make everyone stop and go, 'Ohhh-kaaay.' — Will Ferrell

I write not because I want to but because I am destined to. — Jules Haigler

A flame that burns twice as bright lasts half as long."
"You remind me of that flame Firebrand," Riley murmured. "You burn so hot, and so bright, you set everything around you on fire. Just be careful that the people around you don't get singed," he said in a low voice. "Or that you don't burn too hot, too quickly. The brightest flames are usually the ones that are extinguished first. — Julie Kagawa

I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted. — Carroll Shelby

GIVE THE WORLD YOUR BEST, AND THE BEST WILL COME BACK TO YOU. — Hazel Gaynor

So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries. — Bernard Cornwell