Refinery29 Love Quotes & Sayings

When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't even name half the new groups. — Joe Cocker

I took some time off to enjoy my life, but figure skating is something I love and something I will continue doing for the rest of my life. — Oksana Baiul

Transfer must be the aim of all teaching in school - it is not an option - because when we teach, we can address only a relatively small sample of the entire subject matter. All teachers have said to themselves after a lesson "Oh, if only we had more time! This is just a drop in the bucket!" We can never have enough time. Transfer is our greatest and most difficult mission because we need to put students in a position to learn far more, on their own, than they can ever learn from us. — Jay McTighe

You will ask me, after this, why, I didn't tell you this before. It is because I know how powerful a story can be. It can change the course of history. It can save a life. But it can also be a sinkhole, a quicksand in which you become stuck, unable to write yourself free. — Jodi Picoult

When Art becomes a Science it is no longer an Art. — Kevin James Breaux

I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

In yourself right now is all the place you've got. — Flannery O'Connor

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem. — Mary Barnett Gilson

Unless you lock me in here, you can't expect me to barricade myself in your room when your gone all the time."
Cameron smiled ruefully.
"Why not? You could sit here counting the minutes til I came home after a hard day's work and made your wait worthwhile — Julie Hockley

A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing. — John Marin

Even if alien visitors did decide to drop by this utterly insignificant little blue-green planet, no self-respecting extraterrestrial would ever pick my hometown of Beaverton, Oregon - aka Yawnsville, USA - as their point of first contact. Not unless their plan was to destroy our civilization by wiping out our least interesting locales first. — Ernest Cline

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.' — Sara Shepard

The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these. — Florence Nightingale

Yes, this life is passing swiftly; our days
seem to fade quickly; and
death appears frightening at times.
Nevertheless, our spirit will continue
to live and will one day be united with
our resurrected body to receive immortal glory. I bear solemn witness
that because of the merciful Christ,
we will all live again and forever. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf