Osnos New Yorker Quotes & Sayings

I believe that all genial classrooms share at least five characteristics that guide their instruction regardless of content or grade level. These characteristics are (1) freedom to choose, (2) open-ended exploration, (3) freedom from judgment, (4) honoring every student's experience, and (5) belief in every student's genius. — Thomas Armstrong

We aren't going to win," Roh said. "No," Luna said, "but we're going to live. — Kameron Hurley

I loathe the trivialization of poetry that happens in creative writing classes. Teachers set exercises to stimulate subject matter: Write a poem about an imaginary landscape with real people in it. Write about a place your parents lived in before you were born. We have enough terrible poetry around without encouraging more of it. — Donald Hall

I don't want a pickle, I just want ride on my motorcikle. I don't want to die, I just want a ride on my motorcy ... cle. — Arlo Guthrie

I think I'm as content as one can be. — Nikki Cox

I live in the garden; I just sleep in the house. — Jim Long

The world doesn't end, Claire. In the morning, the survivors start to build again. It's way of things. The human way. — Rachel Caine

Not too many people in cocktail parties are aware of Bioprinting and growing organs, or the coming technological singularity; I've seen very little philosophical speculation about how far we can go, how much we could achieve. — Jason Silva

The Element is the meeting point between natural aptitude and personal passion. — Ken Robinson

if you gave the media any part of yourself, it squeezed it, twisted it, and wrung it dry. — J.D. Robb

The benefit of planningis not so much the plan (or plans) itself is as the effect of having to think through the circumstances you're about to experience, consider them and make rational, reasoned decisions based upon them. — Kevin Evans

That night Mr. Hale laid his head down on the pillow on which it never more should stir with life. The servant who entered his room in the morning, received no answer to his speech; drew near the bed, and saw the calm, beautiful face lying white and cold under the ineffaceable seal of death. The attitude was exquisitely easy; there had been no pain - no struggle. The action of the heart must have ceased as he lay down. — Elizabeth Gaskell