Sending Kids To College Quotes & Sayings

I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person. — Hanya Yanagihara

I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college. — Laura Lippman

I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book. — Zack Snyder

The heart of service is grace of belonging. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We have that feeling that life could have been other, different, better in a way impossible to articulate, yet we sense there was another road we missed. — Chloe Thurlow

Heat rose to her cheeks. The man made love to her one time, and already she couldn't wait to touch him again. He should be labeled a controlled substance to keep potential addicts like her safe from his influence. — Christine Warren

Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet many capable economists deny that mathematics, except as a shorthand or expository device, can be applied to economic reasoning. There have even been rumors that mathematics is used in economics (and in other social sciences) either for the deliberate purpose of mystification or to confer dignity upon common places as French was once used in diplomatic communications. — James R Newman

I'm very interested in everything. The words fell with a hollow flatness on to Jay Cee's desk, like so many wooden nickels. — Sylvia Plath

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. — Joseph Addison

My dad died in May of '97. The effects of his death immediately were not all that hard, but a year or two later it hit, when my job as Dad was sort of done and I was sending my kids to college. And somehow, the emotional intensity of that event mixed with the loss of my own dad, was kind of upsetting. — Wayne Watson

Before you look for validation in others, try and find it in yourself — Greg Behrendt

I would like my kids to go to college and be exposed to the real world and to make their own decisions and find their own path instead of sending them somewhere where they would be creatively conditioned for one life path or another. — Taya Kyle

I think that prosecuting some college kid because she shared a file is a lot like sending somebody to Australia 200 years ago for poaching his lordship's rabbit. That's how it must seem to poor people who just want to watch a crappy movie for free after they've been working themselves to death all day at Tesco or whatever, you know. — Iggy Pop

There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is to accept and do the will of God. — William Barclay

I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films. — Werner Herzog

For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, itis one of the noblest qualities of humanity. There is something sociable about it, too. Think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod
no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off
none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity. — Herman Melville

I've always been someone who is pretty hard on herself. But I've lightened up a lot. — Kirsten Dunst