Recalculated High School Quotes & Sayings

Know the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Between two-ounce and a big two-ounce? Between a quart and a full quart? What's a tall 24-inch? What does Extra Long mean? Who's kidding who? — Marya Mannes

After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the student to endeavour to be original, and to remember that originality should not be undiscovered plagiarism. — Henry Peach Robinson

I'm extremely grateful to all the first responders, veterans and their families for all their sacrifices. — Taya Kyle

There were supposed to be safeguards in place, firewalls to keep the pieces independent. But they have been relaxed for the sake of 'efficiency.'"

They sat in silence for a few moments. Helen spoke first. "People. Dumb." The others nodded in agreement. — Bryce C. Anderson

The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across. — Marian Diamond

I think there should be more black characters, and more of all kinds of characters, in fiction. Almost all of the main characters in my novel Anansi Boys are black. And there are black characters in featured roles in all the other novels except Stardust and Coraline. (Something I was happy to see was not the case in Henry Selick's film.) — Neil Gaiman

The mystery of God touches us - or does not - in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love. — Marion Woodman

I want some time without you organic life forms. — Rick Riordan

True love is born of time and trials, and it is rarely caught up in feelings. — K. B. Hoyle

There's no such thing as quality time; there's only quantity time. — Steve Schirripa

Happiness is an immunity. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools. — Wilkie Collins

If you have homes, I suggest you flee them. If you have friends, I suggest you warn them. If you have children, did you not know how dangerous and unpredictable the world was when you created a defenseless tiny human within it? And — Joseph Fink