Middle School Bulletin Board Quotes & Sayings

For my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.
To be sure she must be an atheist! — Samuel Richardson

All battles should be based on principles. And in a battle of principles, it is not the size of the adversary that matters. It is the size of the principle. — Subroto Bagchi

The more I think I know, I realize, the more that is left unknown and that's the best part. — L.J. Vanier

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think. A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful. — Anonymous

I don't read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me. — Bauvard

Scientific method seeks to understand things as they are, while alchemy seeks to bring about a desired state of affairs. To put it another way, the primary objective of science is truth, - that of alchemy, operational success. — George Soros

Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk. It doesn't matter where or what it is, from the biggest to the most venomous. — Steve Irwin

Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime
and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis. — Sigmund Freud

It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own. — Andy Serkis

When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination. — Olivia Thirlby

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime. — Keanu Reeves

In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps into place. You feel like the soul of this character is now dwelling in you. — Mercedes Ruehl

We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists, and we should not stand for that. — Michael Bloomberg

Alan Alda is loved not because he's sensitive, but because he's successful and sensitive. — Warren Farrell

The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche