Shuey School Quotes & Sayings

There is only one thing wrong about the Flo Hyman Award: it came to be named for the Old Lady of Volleyball much too soon. — George Vecsey

It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges that are rarely satisfied with single images. — Minor White

I don't much like crowds. You ought to count yourself lucky - when I took Vivien round to show her the restored rooms a couple of years ago, we had to hide in a cupboard for twenty minutes." Lucky Vivien, I almost said, but I caught myself in time. Instead I asked him, tongue in cheek, "There's a name for that, isn't there? A pathological fear of crowds?" He nodded. "Privacy. — Susanna Kearsley

Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops - many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans - though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. — Richard Ford

I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way. — Anne Enright

Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

To realize lasting peace and sustainable development in human society, members of the international community have to cooperate with one another fully and make concerted efforts. — Wu Bangguo

If concealment is the single weapon, then a villain is never a villain; one smiles to the very end. — Truman Capote

The theater commitment is hard, especially in conjunction with a television commitment. That's a big, long commitment. — Sarah Paulson

That's the other thing: Even if you're on medication, you still have to treat your body properly and take care of yourself. The idea that [ADHD] goes away or you grow out of it isn't true. — Ty Pennington

You can't tackle climate change until you tackle poverty. — Hugh Jackman

Because all is lost, there is nothing to lose — Alan W. Watts