Razoring Scissors Quotes & Sayings

We need to reward the 'thankless job' of substitute teaching with better pay and chances for permanent positions. I look forward to the day when no student comes home saying, 'I didn't learn much today ... we had a sub.' — Adora Svitak

Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long history of use and the extraordinarily high numbers of social smokers, there are simply no credible reports to suggest that consuming marijuana has caused a single death. By contrast, aspirin, a commonly used, over-the-counter medicine, causes hundreds of deaths each year. — Frances M. Young

Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with! — Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

Nothing ever works out when you are at the whims of others. It doesn't matter if you are an entrepreneur or an employee. Once someone is bribing you to do something (a salary is a form of bribery if you are only doing the work for the money and not for the meaning) then you become a prisoner. — James Altucher

The way to learn the language is to rip off other players. As Benny Golson told me, "We all start off sounding like other cats. And gradually, a lick here or there,we start to sound like ourselves. But it takes a long time to do so ... " That'swhat he told me, and it worked for me. — Branford Marsalis

That which goeth up must needs come down; and that which is down must needs go up. But Brahma has ordained that the that that goeth up is seldom the same as the that that hath gone down. — Gautama Buddha

I just broke up with my girlfriend because I caught her lying. Under another man. — Doug Benson

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view. — Robert M. Hutchins

This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger. — Swami Vivekananda

How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree. — Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff. — Rachel Platten

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity ... — John Keats

A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known. — Edward Sapir