Palmerston Public School Quotes & Sayings

We let it in, we give it out, and in the end what's it all about? It must be love. — Kate Bush

And even my sense of identity was wrapped in a namelessness often hard to penetrate, as we have just seen I think ... Yes, even then, when already all was fading, waves and particles, there could be no things but nameless things, no names but thingless names. I say that now, but after all what do I know now about then, now when the icy words hail down upon me, the icy meanings, and the world dies too, foully named. All I know is what the words know, and the dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning, a middle and an end as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead. And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept. To hell with it anyway. — Samuel Beckett

Nowadays we would perhaps call Plato's state totalitarian. — Jostein Gaarder

One ought perhaps not to count Moses, as he was a mere executor of the will of God; he must nevertheless be admired, if only for the grace that made him worthy of speaking to God. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage — Paulo Freire

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story. — Byron Katie

I've never seen a man who understands so little about women and yet is so led about by them. — Mark Lawrence

At first we raced through space, like shadows and light; her rants, my raves; her dark hair, my blonde; black dresses, white. She's a purple-black African-violet-dark butterfly and I a white moth. We were two wild ponies, Dawn and Midnight, the wind electrifying our manes and our hooves quaking the city; we were photo negatives of each other, together making the perfect image of a girl. — Francesca Lia Block

People would say to me, "Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney", and I'd say: "I wish I had his money!" — Paul McCartney

Let's unleash Death upon this day. — K.F. Breene

To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable characteristic. It would be going too far to say that to the physicist the cat is merely incidental to the grin. Physics is concerned with interrelatedness such as the interrelatedness of cats and grins. In this case the "cat without a grin" and the "grin without a cat" are equally set aside as purely mathematical phantasies. — Arthur Eddington

The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone. — Lucretius

There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else. — Alanis Morissette