Schlechty Design Quotes & Sayings

I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the material as if it were myth - that Marilyn Monroe is like this mythical figure in our culture. — Joyce Carol Oates

All I'm trying to tell you is to be strong. Don't ever let nothing get you down. Don't be afraid or ashamed to love, or to grieve when the thing you love is gone. Just don't let it throw you, no matter how much it hurts. — Patrick D. Smith

The business of schools is to design, create, and invent high-quality, intellectually demanding schoolwork that students find engaging. — Phillip C. Schlechty

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads — H.L. Mencken

I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community. — Tony Judt

Sometimes you have to put your balls on the line. — Warren Gatland

Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away from things I didn't like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might. — Jasper Johns

That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

You always have to give back to the fans. I remember being a fan of television and film when I was growing up and if I would've had the opportunity to meet somebody that I watched on television, it would've made my day, it would've made my life. — Jon Huertas

Great books make great being. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Give your children big truths they will grow into rather than light explanations they will grow out of. — Tedd Tripp

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it. — Albert Einstein

My father moved out a week later. I hugged him at our front door and couldn't bear to watch him leave with so much luggage. — Alison Espach