Ruden Report Quotes & Sayings

In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words. — Paul Claudel

My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the same thing. — Victor Hugo

Confucius said: "You are never in a position to learn unless you are totally confused. — Marcus Gibson

I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.
— Tori Amos

Ironically, Alfred Binet, one of the creators of the IQ test, intended the test to serve precisely the opposite function. In fact, he originally designed it (on commission from the French government) exclusively to identify children with special needs so they could get appropriate forms of schooling. He never intended it to identify degrees of intelligence or "mental worth." In fact, Binet noted that the scale he created "does not permit the measure of intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured." Nor did he ever intend it to suggest that a person could not become more intelligent over time. "Some recent thinkers," he said, "[have affirmed] that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity that cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism; we must try to demonstrate that it is founded on nothing. — Ken Robinson

'Saturday Night Fever,' Paula Abdul, 'Fame,' Debbie Allen ... all affected me and the generation before me. — Laurieann Gibson

He is so shaggy. People are amazed when he gets up and they suddenly realize they have been talking to the wrong end. — Elizabeth Jones