Sandhogs Brooklyn Quotes & Sayings

That's the Teacher Gene at work, giving its bearer an extra sense. It's a little frightening. Maybe that's how people decide to become teachers. They have that extra sense, and once they have it, and know that they have it, they don't have any choice except to become a teacher. — Gary D. Schmidt

You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky. — Rumi

People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time I was playing in bands. — Billy Joel

He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond. — William Faulkner

It should have been the Arabian Nights, but to Bond, seeing it first above the tops of trams and above the great scars of modern advertising along the river frontage, it seemed a once beautiful theatre-set that modern Turkey had thrown aside in favour of the steel and concrete flat-iron of the Istanbul-Hilton Hotel, blankly glittering behind him on the heights of Pera. — Ian Fleming

Steep curving stone stairs led to a square library on the floor above. The 4,000 books in the library were mostly collected between 1710 and 1730. ... For a moment I was tempted to ask to be locked in. If I could skim ten books a day for a year, I would be able to get a sense of most of what David Hume might have read in 1730 -- an age when it still might just have been possible to read everything. — Rory Stewart

There's something about a beautiful, nearly flawless flower, emerging from muddled water. — E.K. Blair

In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind most of the early plays. But not now. There is no conviction now that the problem will be solved. — Brooks Atkinson

People say California is the leading state on these type of issues. I've called my sister today and I said - I have a 3-year-old nephew - "Do you spank?"And she says, "If it's necessary I will. But that's my decision. I'm the mother. Not you." — Sean Hannity

I don't know. I have incredible amounts of hope that things can change. It takes people who believe. — Morgan Spurlock