Pluvialis Quotes & Sayings

My opportunity to design school choice systems began in 2003 with a phone call from Jeremy Lack at the New York City Department of Education. He knew of my work on the medical match and wondered if similar efforts might help reorganize the dysfunctional, congested system then used to match students to high schools. — Alvin E. Roth

Because it needs to be said," she murmured. "Because that's what happened. You deserve to know that. — Jim Butcher

She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one flung out like a little piece of sand, one from this direction, another form behind, more and more, until his looks, his character, his soul would have eroded away ... I was afraid that some unseen speck of truth would fly into my eye, blur what I was seeing and transform him from the divine man I thought he was into someone quite mundane, mortally wounded with tiresome habits and irritating imperfections. — Amy Tan

I want the world to know that people like me who have returned from the half-world of mental oblivion are not forever contaminated. We have been sick. — Jimmy Piersall

If you want to be on time, be early. — Thomas Harrington

I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It's the bully who's insecure. — Shay Mitchell

Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first. — Mark Twain