Schoolmaster Fish Quotes & Sayings

The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can't play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all. — G.K. Chesterton

Does your height bother you?" he asked softly. "I was teased a lot as a kid," I admitted. "I felt a bit like a freak in high school, but over time, I learned to appreciate it, you know? I simply stopped listening to what others thought about me, and I found that I really liked who I was, what I was. I might not be the most desirable - " "That's — Kelli Jean

We are stardust, billion year old carbon. we are golden, caught in the devil's bargain. — Joni Mitchell

When I graduated I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want a conventional career. — Charlie Trotter

Very few things in the world are certain, but morning is one of them. — Gregory Maguire

Finally she found what she was looking for. "See, child?" she said, holding out a framed illustration that looked as if it had been ripped from a book. In it, a man was being crucified - a black man with an Afro - and up above, floating in the vicinity — Jodi Picoult

I am speaking of something deeper. I am speaking of everything a being can give another. This is what I offer you. I offer myself. — Jude Watson

Bury my heart

at wounded knee

or sprained ankle

even torn ligament,

but please don't

bury it alone. — Pamela August Russell

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world. — Ron Chernow

Of course I remember you. You were the only one who ever looked at me like a human being."
"You've always known?"
"Adam, I'd recognize your eyes anywhere in the world. — Tahereh Mafi

Victory is about recognizing all the work that went into achieving your dream. — Tommy Hilfiger

She listened for the pain in my words, not to the narrative itself. She was intuiting what it meant to me, what was most important, what, in that confused mass of experience and yearning she heard in my voice, she could single out to give back. — Alice Sebold

When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love. — Emmanuelle Beart

What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives? — Nafis Sadik

The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens. — Donald Miller