Ottewell School Quotes & Sayings

We are in a situation with the huge stimulus package that's going to be spent all across this nation and a big financial crisis and banking crisis. And what we need is good, trained journalists who can play the role of watchdog. — Walter Isaacson

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become. — Leo Szilard

You need to start doing what's uncomfortable for you, April. Because your idea of what feels right took a left turn somewhere. — Tess Callahan

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV. — Val Kilmer

Force yourself to simplify every initiative, every product, every marketing, everything you do. — Keith Rabois

I'm off for two weeks, so until I get back, take the characters in this tweet and parcel them out one per day. Use this Q wisely. — Stephen Colbert

I feel now, as we did then, that for an effective approach to the problem of nucleic acid biosynthesis, it was essential to understand the biosynthesis of the simple nucleotides and the coenzymes and to have these concepts and methodology well in hand. — Arthur Kornberg

The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere. — William Howard Taft

I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from? — Elie Wiesel

The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts. — Abraham Lincoln

Gave up her child without so much as a note or a dollar, and what excuse did she have? None. She was not poor. She was not the victim of brutality. And the child, whatever else his circumstances, had been conceived in love. That much was true. How could she have so easily given the child away? Olympia — Anita Shreve

Pocket Poem
If this comes creased and creased again and soiled
as if I'd opened it a thousand times
to see if what I'd written here was right,
it's all because I looked too long for you
to put in your pocket. Midnight says
the little gifts of loneliness come wrapped
by nervous fingers. What I wanted this
to say was that I want to be so close
that when you find it, it is warm from me. — Ted Kooser

Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge. — John Patrick Shanley