Socio Legal Information Centre Quotes & Sayings

My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it. — Stephen King

She was thinking she needed to post a letter in the Lonely Hearts column in the Silver Town Gazette: She-wolf seeking male wolf who believes in ghosts. No others need apply. — Terry Spear

It wasn't fair. It wasn't fair that I'd stumbled across the kind of man I used to find irresistible, or that he'd managed to stare right inside my brain to locate my weaknesses. The thrill of being wanted while pretending not to be interested was a game I'd played over and over during my youth. I'd grown up since then. I'd done more than my share of getting mixed up with men who were all ego and muscles, and he reminded me exactly why I'd given them up.
Unfortunately, my body hadn't got the memo yet. — Kyra Lennon

By disparaging ballet he succeeded very well in convincing the boys that ballet was not for Americans, that it was European in origin and in continuing character. — Walter Terry

When we live our lives with the authenticity demanded by the practice of teaching that is also learning and learning that is also teaching, we are participating in a total experience ... In this experience the beautiful, the decent, and the serious form a circle with hands joined. — Paulo Freire

Nor did he think of Celia any more, though he could sometimes remember having dreamt of her. If only he had been able to think of her, he would not have needed to dream of her. — Samuel Beckett

The journal preserved her dignity; she might look and behave like and live the life of a trained nurse, but she was really an important writer in disguise. And at a time when she was cut off from everything she knew - family, home, friends - writing was the thread of continuity. It was what she had always done. — Ian McEwan

You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown. — Robert Breault

You'll live for as long as you live, and once you stop living, you don't have to worry about staying alive any more because you'll be dead. — Sebastyne Young

She called my name.
She called me Mark.
I love it when someone uses my name at unexpected times. I don't know why. But, I just love it. — A.A. Gupte

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it. — Zig Ziglar

When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he's gone and you blast your conscience to shreds that you did not see him. — John Steinbeck