Schr Dingers Quotes & Sayings

We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be the last to lay the old aside, it might not be a better world, but it would be a lovelier language. — Willard Van Orman Quine

Astute observers of corporate balance sheets are often the first to see business deterioration — Benjamin Graham

That's what life is. Life is where you sleep and what you see when you wake up in the morning, and who you tell about your weird dream, and what you eat for breakfast and who you eat it with. Life isn't something that happens to you. It's something you make yourself, all the time." -Celeste — Rebecca Stead

I love him who seeks to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Each man must resolve within himself issues for which his society previously took full responsibility. — Carl R. Rogers

We're sprinting at the speed of light when the ground gives way and we rise into the air as if racing up stairs. — Jandy Nelson

If you wait too long in Vegas, you end up with a chicken finger in your underwear. — Chelsea Handler

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference. — Klaus Kinski

It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge, real lasting felt knowledge, is going mostly unnoticed among our scholars. The body of knowledge locked into and releasable from poetry can replace practically any university in the Republic. First things first, then: the primal importance of a poem is what it can add to the individual mind.
Poetry is the voice of a poet at its birth, and the voice of a people in its ultimate fulfillment as a successful and useful work of art. — Guy Davenport

It'll be just lovely for you to play
it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard! — Eleanor Porter

Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be. — Wendy Kopp