Schneppen Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. — Woodrow Wilson

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves. — Gary Snyder

Don't ever
let Them tell you
you are
too broken
to bloom — Nadia Hasan

The one kiss that was stolen, was given in a lie. — Anthony Liccione

Bodies feel pain; only the mind can suffer. Indeed, it's possible to be in pain and yet not suffer at all. — Robert S. Rosenthal

If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me. — William Petersen

What I love in working on film is just working with actors. It's one thing to write scenes alone over a keyboard and to imagine the actions and reactions in your head, but it's a completely other thing to hear actors speaking your words, to see their bodies bringing the fullness of emotion, need, desire and pain to life right in front of you. It's amazing. — Dee Rees

Investment in education and economic prosperity is the best way to cure fanaticism and for establishing a just peace in the Middle East. — Ahmed Zewail

Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good. — Helen Keller

Every day, I wish to make the world more beautiful than I found it. — Madame De Pompadour

We live in a society that doesn't offer any support or appreciation for ventures that aren't clearly articulated and aligned for a goal. A writer gets past this. It's going to be a mess before you're finished, and you may not have a name for the mess or understand its utilitarian purposes. There aren't words for everything. For now, we'll call it the draft of a story. — Ron Carlson

The book will be a demonstration that children, without being coerced or manipulated, or being put in exotic, specially prepared environments, or having their thinking planned and ordered for them, can, will and do pick up from the world around them important information about what we call the Basics. It will also demonstrate that "ordinary" people, without special schooling themselves, can give their children whatever slight assistance may be needed to help them in their exploration of the world, and that to do this requires no more than a little tact, patience, attention and readily available information. — John Holt