Nordette Adams Quotes & Sayings

We obviously don't live in a perfect world. If we did, then my dad would never have volunteered for Vietnam so he could use the GI Bill to pay for college, Uncle Google would have more important things to do than searching for eight hundred million reasons why our schools suck, and I wouldn't be at an education leadership conference in Jakarta because there'd be no need for it ... right? — Tucker Elliot

My mother told me, 'Always do your best,' and my dad says, 'It's important to be humble. That's the key. They're not there for you. You're there for them.' — Luke Benward

The lips are closed, for the dancer has plenty of other voices at his service. — Lucian

I'm looking at you. Why are you always trying to hide how pretty you are? — Cynthia Hand

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence. — Abraham Lincoln

A good selfie is when you successfully capture the feeling of that very moment! — Anamika Mishra

Man is his own most vexing problem. — Reinhold Niebuhr

I would be researching seventeenth-century garden design or I would be doing something with Pepys, but I just kept using all of it to write about Margaret Cavendish. It took me a long time to realize that I just wanted to write a book about her. Years. — Danielle Dutton

It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life. — Carrie Fisher

Stop smiling," I grumbled. "Can't.""Were you this irritating when we met?""I was charming. Very charming.""Where did Mr. Charming go?""That guy didn't have staying power.""But Mr. Irritating? He'll stick around?""Unfortunately. — C.D. Reiss

truly my opinion is, that all our opinions are alike vain and uncertain. what we approve today, we condemn tomorrow. we keep a stir about knowledge, and spend our lives in the pursuit of it, when, alas! we know nothing all the while: nor do i think it possible for us to ever know anything in this life. our faculties are too narrow and too few. nature certainly never intended us for speculation. — George Berkeley

Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing. — Ani DiFranco

Failure to meditate in the morning increases the probability of chaos throughout the day. — Joe Sacco

The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art. — Francis Ford Coppola

At its best, the Internet can educate more people faster than any media tool we've ever had. At its worst, it can make people dumber than any media tool we've ever had. — Thomas L. Friedman