Nargiz Pashayeva Quotes & Sayings

Grades become a reward for compliance - but don't have much to do with learning. Meanwhile, students whose grades don't measure up often see themselves as failures and give up trying to learn. — Daniel H. Pink

The week ahead is already programmed for fabulousness. Pray that your thinking be aligned with the force that makes it so. — Marianne Williamson

She sat down next to him, took one of his cigarettes, listened to his apologies. He was distraught, of course: he was just the kind of idiot who could only understand what things meant by doing them first. — Nick Hornby

You don't choose your life, your life chooses you. — Shelly Crane

The male capacity for turning the negative into a compliment is really alarming. — Lena Dunham

No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope. — Simone Weil

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant. — James D. Watson

Even a little dog can piss on a big building. — Jim Hightower

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is. — Daniel Handler

By the time Bones announced it was Tammy's turn, I'd fallen in love with him all over again. Flowers and jewelry worked for most girls as a romantic gesture, but here I was, misty-eyed at watching him show my mother how to stab the shit out of him. — Jeaniene Frost

Any profession you engage in, no matter how profitable, unless it is truly helpful and good for others, is a crime against your soul, and the world. — Bryant McGill

There's a really brilliant photographer who's deceased who in my sort of fashion and modelling days, I was fortunate enough to get to work with before he passed away, but Richard Avedon was utterly genius and creatively brilliant. — Gabriel Mann

I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped trying to fit the material I was working with into these tidy little short fiction packages. — Susan Choi

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time. — Joyce Carol Oates

Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves? — George Eliot