Sarian Pools Quotes & Sayings

I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say. — Tim Gunn

My address book of dealers and private collectors, smugglers and fixers, agents, runners and the peculiar assortment of art hangers-on was longer than anyone else's in the field. — Thomas Hoving

I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff. — Erich Leinsdorf

Keeping people on side is a precondition of making any progress on sustainability issues — Jonathon Porritt

When it comes to love, it's always worth the sacrifice. Always. — Harper Sloan

A lot of times, we also have to live and work. You have to make money to pay rent. In that respect, I don't think you can be so demanding. Those great stories are not the normal stories that come on a daily basis. It's a struggle to land those roles. Everybody is looking for the good parts. — Djimon Hounsou

Everybody granted that if "Tom" were white and free it would be unquestionably right to punish him
it would be no loss to anybody; but to shut up a valuable slave for life
that was quite another matter. As soon as the Governor understood the case, he pardoned Tom at once, and the creditors sold him down the river. — Mark Twain

Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of the chief virtues; but to continue in trade long after this result is obtained, is one of the signs, not to be mistaken, of a sordid and ignoble nature. — Christian Nestell Bovee

I said, "If we were good always would we be happy always?"
"No," said Grandmother.
"Then I shall be bad. — Jeanette Winterson

I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window. — Coolio

Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in. — Katha Pollitt

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back. — Bill Bryson

If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong. — Jonathan Haidt

Your worst enemy can be your best teacher! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You cannot shake hands with the Devil and not get sulphur on your sleeve. — Nancy A. Collins