Saller School Quotes & Sayings

I couldn't figure out which of these ideas, if any, was at the core of the poem. But thinking about the grass and all the different ways you could se it made me think about all the ways I'd seen and mis-seen Margo. There was no shortage of ways to see her. I'd been focused on what had become of her, but now with my head trying to understand the multiplicity of grass and her smell from the blanket still in my throat, I realized that the most important question was who I was looking for. If "What is the grass?" has such a complicated answer, I thought, so, too, must "Who is Margo Roth Spiegelman?" Like a metaphor rendered incomprehensible by its ubiquity, there was room enough in what she had left me for endless imaginings, for an infinite set of Margos. — John Green

Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe? ... What is lacking now are goods on the shelves-that is all. — Robert Mugabe

It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen. — Daniel Handler

Once torched by truth, a little thing like faith is easy. — Leif Enger

How do you get free of the damnable books of Romance when everybody else is still living in them? — Robert Anton Wilson

I decided to play up what I had. I retied my bow tie and put the tuxedo jacket back on. "Let's do this," I said to the waiting guardians. — Richelle Mead

The table groans under the heavy and blood-bought luxuries gathered with painstaking care, at home and abroad. Fields, forests, rivers and seas, are made tributary here. Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. — Frederick Douglass

Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers. — Billy Casper

I respect your right to worship Satan, or to worship a tea kettle, or to be a NIMBY, or to be an asshole. There's no law against being an asshole. — Chicken John

He and Marten may be needles in a haystack, but straw by straw the hay is being taken away. It's only a matter of time, hours at most, before the floor is bare and the needles and right there in front of us. — Allan Folsom