Ormiston Public School Quotes & Sayings

A government is only good in so far as it achieves the best kind of living together among a specific group of people and it should be obvious that there cannot be one way of living-together which will fit all types of people. Only those who, mostly from fear, and in self-defence, think of man as being an unvarying nonentity, could generate such an idea. Others will, or should, realise that the best way of living together for any specific group of people depends on the particular characteristics of that group. — G.M. Mes

Claim ownership of your brand, your expertise, then defend it with deeds — Bernard Kelvin Clive

What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe. — Maurice Sendak

He'd noticed that his grandson was working too hard, and he was the one who told him about the marbles. He told it this way. He said that the average life span for men was around seventy-five years. That meant thirty-nine hundred Saturdays - to play when you were a kid and to be with your family when you got older and wiser." "I see," I said. "Or to play once you got older. Or even to give lectures to anyone who'll listen." "Shush, Alex. Now, listen. So the grandfather figured out that his grandson, who was forty-three, had about sixteen hundred and sixty Saturdays left in his life. Statistically speaking. So what he did was he bought two large jars and filled them with beautiful cat's-eye marbles. He gave them to his grandson. And he told him that every Saturday, he should take one marble out of the jar. Just one, and just as a reminder that he had only so many Saturdays left, and that they were precious — James Patterson

Maybe we could think of science as being like a nuclear chain reaction in which people and ideas bounce off each other, and if critical mass is reached, a new field is formed. — Alvin E. Roth

I'm sharing a loft with a dragon who snores like two chainsaws having angry sex. — Vaughn R. Demont

The Public School, he had long ago decided, was neurotic. It wanted a world in which nothing new came about, in which there were no surprises. And that was the world of the compulsive-obsessive neurotic; it was not a healthy world at all. — Philip K. Dick

Learn to live on the edge. — Richard Branson

My mom sang in high school choir and so did my father. — Kevin Richardson

I might be from Kentucky, but I know that 'bless her heart' means 'fuck that bitch' in Southern. — Laura Kreitzer

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? — Matthew McConaughey