Setup 2011 Quotes & Sayings

I listen to the grinding whir of the clock, and the creaking of my listing bed, and the sound the phone doesn't make when it's shut off. — Michael Montoure

Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also. — Ulysses S. Grant

He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker. — Confucius

An Army is a team. It lives sleeps eats and fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is pure horse shit — George S. Patton Jr.

When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again? — Aeschylus

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer. — Robert Cormier

School success is not predicted by a child's fund of facts or a precocious ability to read as much as by emotional and social measures; being self-assured and interested: knowing what kind of behavior is expected and how to rein in the impulse to misbehave; being able to wait, to follow directions, and to turn to teachers for help; and expressing needs while getting along with other children. — Daniel Goleman