Scuppered Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

The quality of an education system can never exceed the quality of its teachers. — Andreas Schleicher

I have the faith that even at my lowest points, there will come a silver lining through faith. — Torii Hunter

TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing. — Matthew Weiner

TIMON
Commend me to them,
And tell them that, to ease them of their griefs,
Their fears of hostile strokes, their aches, losses,
Their pangs of love, with other incident throes
That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain
In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them:
I'll teach them to prevent wild Alcibiades' wrath.
First Senator
I like this well; he will return again.
TIMON
I have a tree, which grows here in my close,
That mine own use invites me to cut down,
And shortly must I fell it: tell my friends,
Tell Athens, in the sequence of degree
From high to low throughout, that whoso please
To stop affliction, let him take his haste,
Come hither, ere my tree hath felt the axe,
And hang himself. I pray you, do my greeting. — William Shakespeare

His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes. — Kurt Vonnegut

Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact. — John Dewey

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you. — Abu Bakr

Do not surrender to a situation that nurtures the ego. — Devdutt Pattanaik

The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes. — Atom Egoyan

If you'll not let me be spiritual about it, you'll have to put up wi' my baser nature. I'm going to be a beast." He bit my neck. "Do ye want me to be a horse, a bear, or a dog? — Diana Gabaldon

It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing. — Jimmy Carr

I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure. — Kevin Costner

If you try to put anything in the middle of the place that was originally made for God, it is going to be too small. It is going to rattle around in there. — Timothy Keller

Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods. — Herodotus

It's gonna take the man in me to conquer this insanity. — Tupac Shakur