Margaret Persona Quotes & Sayings

Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
This is your life
Are you who you want to be? — Switchfoot

Feminist art may ... though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme ... should we call it 'joy'? — Andrea Dworkin

You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls. — J.K. Rowling

We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption. — Marian Wright Edelman

A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure. — Robert Doisneau

It's a road trip! It's about adventure! ... It's not like we have somewhere to go. — John Green

Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator - that has always been strong in me. — Robert Pinsky

It just shows you that if you take a plain, ordinary, moronic intern and make him do the same things over and over again until he loses is mind, you can teach him to do almost anything. I think now that I've mastered IVs, I might take up neurosurgery in my spare time. — Robert Marion

Being a father can 'unreason' your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. It's sad that children's open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum. — Clyde Edgerton

Myself, I don't think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both sides. You have to have leaders committed to peace, on both sides. One side can't impose a solution. — Bobby Ray Inman

Language allows us to represent autobiographical events in the past, present and future; we can imagine events that have not yet happened, that we wish to happen or fear will happen. Jerome Bruner first proposed narratives as the best candidate for how people give meaning to the world, themselves and dominated in our everyday representation of our lives, rather than narrower units that featured in the information processing paradigm at that time. — Jacqui Stedmon

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it. — Bill Nye

Very tough, but it is that very struggle with obstacles which does us good. Things have been made easy for you in many ways, but no one can do everything. You must paddle your own canoe now, and learn to avoid the rapids and steer straight to the port you want to reach. I don't know just what your temptations will be for you have no bad habits and seem to love music so well, nothing can lure you from it. I only hope you won't work too hard. — Louisa May Alcott

No, not in a creepy way. I am anti-incest. It says so on my bumper sticker. — Laurel Ulen Curtis