Paul Pfeiffer Quotes & Sayings

I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers. — Jonathan Kozol

Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that's why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden. — Truman Capote

EMMA: We're lovers.
ROBERT: Ah, yes. I thought it might be something like that. Something along those lines.
EMMA: When?
ROBERT: What?
EMMA: When did you think?
ROBERT: Yesterday. Only yesterday. When I saw his handwriting on the letter. Before yesterday I was quite ignorant.
EMMA: Ah. (pause) I'm sorry.
ROBERT: Sorry? (silence) How long?
EMMA: Some time.
ROBERT: Yes, but how long exactly?
EMMA: Five years.
ROBERT: Five years? — Harold Pinter

Literary men are ... a perpetual priesthood. — John Keats

He who is void of love is void of power. — Matshona Dhliwayo

God didn't create the fear,
fear created the God.
God didn't create humans,
Humans created the God because of their fear. — John Art

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't. — Bill Moyers

I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love. — Yayoi Kusama

Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with. — Jeffery Deaver

My family didn't find out until I told them, which was when I won Penthouse Pet of the Year. They took it as well as I could have hoped. I am their daughter and they love me, so it was great when they didn't disown me. — Sunny Leone

On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job? — Stephen King

Truth is stranger than fiction... — Mark Twain