Standiford Elementary Quotes & Sayings

Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera. — Gaston Leroux

The one who knows to live is the one who knows to love — Abhilash

How you're still always trapped. How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning. — Chuck Palahniuk

That spring Larry Ellison saw Amelio at a party and introduced him to the technology journalist Gina Smith, who asked how Apple was doing. "You know, Gina, Apple is like a ship," Amelio answered. "That ship is loaded with treasure, but there's a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the same direction." Smith looked perplexed and asked, "Yeah, but what about the hole?" From then on, Ellison and Jobs joked about the parable of the ship. "When Larry relayed this story to me, we were in this sushi place, and I literally fell off my chair laughing," Jobs recalled. "He was just such a buffoon, and he took himself so seriously. He insisted that everyone call him Dr. Amelio. That's always a warning sign. — Walter Isaacson

I believe that the obsessive worship of movie, TV and sports figures is less likely to produce spiritual gain than praying to Thor. — Chuck Lorre

cognitive scientists studying human perception agree: we don't experience objective reality; we experience a model of objective reality that our brain creates for us. — Steve Volk

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person. — Seneca.

I'm busier than ever and it's led to new opportunities. But I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing. — Anton Du Beke