Mendell Elementary Quotes & Sayings

Most little girls in England grow up wanting to marry
a prince. Bex grew up wanting to kick James Bond's butt and assume his double-0 ranking. — Ally Carter

They were two people thrown together on a journey, who found themselves sharing the same railway compartment and becoming resigned to each other's company. — Alexander McCall Smith

I never worried about the genius: genius takes care of the genius in a man. My concern was always for the nobody, the man who is lost in the shuffle, the man who is so common, so ordinary, that his presence is not even noticed. One genius does not inspire another. — Henry Miller

People, based on their emotions, will express support for the sentiment, not necessarily the specifics, because there are none. — Jeb Bush

If you were far out in space, you would see that the sun neither rises nor sets, but that it shines continuously. And yet, even after realizing that, we can continue to speak of the sunrise or sunset, still see its beauty, paint it, write poems about it, even though we now know that it is a relative rather than an absolute truth. — Eckhart Tolle

I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right. — Joan Didion

The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness. — Russell Simmons

When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views. — Orson Scott Card

The condition for a miracle is difficulty, however the condition for a great miracle is not difficulty, but impossibility. — Angus Buchan

You keep a grip of my heels, Pole, and Scrubb would hold on to yours. The we'll all be comfortable. — C.S. Lewis

So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen. — Stephen Hawking

To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us. — Anatol Rapoport

People do not become wealthy by treating one another or the world kindly and with respect. — Wendell Berry

A bad song you can't forget is called an earworm. The way to get rid of an earworm is to deliberately remember an equally awful song. — Matt Chandler

Sunday's my day off, where I eat whatever I want. I don't not let myself have something. I do love French fries and bread. — Ashley Tisdale