Odysseus Being Brave Quotes & Sayings

What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning. — Jennifer Capriati

You guys know about vampires? ... You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There's this idea that monsters don't have reflections in a mirror. And what I've always thought isn't that monsters don't have reflections in a mirror. It's that if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves. And growing up, I felt like a monster in some ways. I didn't see myself reflected at all. I was like, "Yo, is something wrong with me? That the whole society seems to think that people like me don't exist?" And part of what inspired me, was this deep desire that before I died, I would make a couple of mirrors. That I would make some mirrors so that kids like me might see themselves reflected back and might not feel so monstrous for it. — Junot Diaz

The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use, and works with it according to his own needs, tendencies and special interests. In this way, the objects become a means of growth. — Maria Montessori

The more light you have in an image, the less drama you get. The details start taking over; the mystery is all gone. — Jay Maisel

The moment you stop learning,You start dying — Anonymous

I have 2 weapons; my arms, my legs and my brain. — Michael Vick

I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to have a range of cool boyfriends. I wanted to travel around and date these interesting men. Then it just happened. You fall in love. — Charlotte Arnold

the 19th century saw the rise of what we came to call linear thought, a way of processing the world that was made possible only by the medium of books. — Alena Graedon

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. — Ajay Naidu

There's a saying: 'War is a long cliff.' You can avoid the cliff completely, you can walk along the top for as long as you have the nerve, you can even choose to leap off, and if you only fall a short way before you hit a ledge you can always scramble back up again. Unless you're just plain invaded, there are always choices, and even then, there's usually something you've missed - a choice you didn't make - that could have avoided invasion in the first place. You people still have your choices. There's nothing inevitable about it. — Iain M. Banks

All khus is vetivert, but not all vetiver is khus. — Elizabeth Ashley

If you're doing an animated comedy on the same channel as 'South Park,' no one can really tell you anything. The bar has been set so high. — Phil LaMarr

I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads me to remember not so much the actual matter of the book as the thoughts evoked in my mind by it, directly or indirectly. — Nikolai Berdyaev

George W. Bush even stopped in Pennsylvania to try his hand at the lotto and gave up when he could only think of the numbers 4 and 17 — Craig Kilborn