Schuetzen Park Quotes & Sayings

I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught. — Rabih Alameddine

There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing. — Edmund White

Besides, if I wanted to hear people speaking wall-to-wall French, all I had to do was remove my headphones and participate in what is known as 'real life,' a concept as uninviting as a shampoo cocktail. — David Sedaris

It occurs to me that we crush insects beneath our feet, miracles of creation too, beetles, worms, cockroaches, ants, in their various ways. — J.M. Coetzee

But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar. A — John Green

The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness is an atrophy. Whatever body or society wastes more than it acquires, must gradually decay, and every being that continues to be fed, and eases to labor, takes away something from the public stock. — Samuel Johnson

There was also an acknowledgment that there was great beauty in what she was currently witnessing, and she chose not to disturb it. — Markus Zusak

I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives. — Emily Bronte

Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else. — Vernon Howard

I find all this money a considerable burden. — J. Paul Getty

I have never willingly chased a ball. — Robert Morley

Advertising agencies used to serve as their clients' eyes and ears in the marketplace. Was there a need for a new product? Was a service now more popular in the suburbs than the cities? Were more men using a household cleanser than women? The ad agency's research department was usually the first, and often the only, source for such information. — Randall Rothenberg

I want to work with my friends because Canadian genre publishing is a really small pool. — Ed Greenwood

If we wait for the governments, it'll be too little, too late; if we act as individuals, it'll be too little; but if we act as communities, it might just be enough, just in time. — Rob Hopkins