Meppeler Courant Quotes & Sayings

Sadly, the truth is, there aren't many people who can be put in high positions who won't start thinking highly of themselves. — Joyce Meyer

Nobody is in the school yard when I get there, except for a few guys hanging near the fence. I recognize a couple of them from the forbidden Latin lunch table. I walk fast, trying not to be noticed, but, of course, they have to go out of their way to call me out. "Move that junk, mami!" one of them calls, making squeezing motions with his hands. I don't turn around to give him the finger, though I probably should. Instead, I hurry up the steps two at a time. — Meg Medina

To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I'm better off working as opposed to lying around. — Wayne Newton

We have a master who deserves radical sacrifice. — David Platt

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts
or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it. — Joseph Addison

It's like a koala pooped a rainbow on my head and I can taste the colors. — Paul Becker

So much of life, it seems, is determined by pure randomness. — Sidney Poitier

The English have gone soft in the outhouse. England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. — William S. Burroughs