Practican Quotes & Sayings

Schools are launching pads, launching our kids into their futures. Unfortunately, a lot of what we teach now looks identical to what we taught 40, 50, or 60 years ago. There's a need for both timeless curriculum content and timely content. What seems to be falling by the wayside is timely content. — Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an
intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues. — Joseph Conrad

stood a bit over five feet, and all who knew her knew what a force she was. In a household of three men and one woman, she more than held her own. She was the most vivacious of the family, a tireless, all-season — David McCullough

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere. — Maurice Denis

Everybody can identify with somebody in the Hundred Acre Wood. — Jim Cummings

Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living. — Evander Holyfield

Stop thinking. I've stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won't want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy. — Sergei Dovlatov

Names are not of nearly as much import as people like to suppose. — Erin Morgenstern

She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care. — Paolo Bacigalupi

You OK?'
'Yeah,'
He didn't believe me, I guess, because he put his arms around me, and we did an awkward sort of hug. We stayed like that for a couple of minutes, with the snow falling harder around us, and the early winter wind picking up, until I melted, and let my head rest on his shoulder, and closed my eyes to the beautiful, terrible world. — Steve Watkins

I'm a big fan of comedies and dramas, and I watch tons of movies. — Clive Owen

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting. — Julie Christie