Promethean Activboard Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get. — Cassandra King

Solutions to problems often come from knowing when to ask for help. — Buck Brannaman

He sat before a note book of blank pages, saying: I swallow my own words. I chew and chew everything until it deteriorates. Every thought or impulse I have is chewed into nothingness. I want to capture all my thoughts at once, but they run in all directions. If I could do this I would be capturing the nimblest of minds, like a shoal of minnows. I would reveal innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and cowardice and courage. I want to tell the whole truth, but I cannot tell the whole truth because I would have to write four pages at once, like four columns simultaneously, four pages to the present one, and so I do not write at all. I would have to write backwards, retrace my steps constantly to catch the echoes and overtones. — Anais Nin

On a dog sled team, unless you're the lead dog the view never changes. — Dominique Sutton

I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow. — Benicio Del Toro

At dawn, the grains of sleep turn to floating black spots, then out of focus the world tilts, and the cat scratches at the door ... — John Geddes

If a company in Australia has to pay tax and the other one doesn't, of course it's a disadvantage. — Gerry Harvey

Jorge Luis Borges: "I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." "The — Suzanne Kelman

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced. — Virginia Woolf

Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark? — G.K. Chesterton

The only reward you get for making it to the end is making it to the end - you get to know the truth, and that's it. — Mira Grant

We like to think that all people have hidden depths, but the fact is that a lot of people are shallow.
The vast majority don't have an opinion until they tune in to AM radio or read the papers. Then they become social critics. — Jessica Zafra

Read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see how the best writers have achieved their result. Poor writing is, unfortunately, infectious and should be avoided. — P.D. James

I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get by. I read German and Spanish. I can read Latin (I did a lot of Latin at school.) I'm afraid I do not speak any African languages, although I can understand a little bit of the Zulu-related languages, but only a tiny bit. — Alexander McCall Smith

The most dangerous place is in your safety zone. — Robin Sharma