Sterretts Quotes & Sayings

The finding that rereading textbooks is often labor in vain ought to send a chill up the spines of educators and learners, because it's the number one study strategy of most people - including more than 80 percent of college students in some surveys - and is central in what we tell ourselves to do during the hours we dedicate to learning. Rereading has three strikes against it. It is time consuming. It doesn't result in durable memory. And it often involves a kind of unwitting self-deception, as growing familiarity with the text comes to feel like mastery of the content. — Peter C. Brown

Life turns on a dime. have no idea what tomorrow will bring ... sure life would be a lot easier if we knew what was going to happen. You've got to live by faith one day at a time. — Eddie Guerrero

And then Zach said a really bad word, but I doubt DeeDee noticed because it was in Farsi — Ally Carter

The one universal form of art is music. — Faith Baldwin

Stop looking back when your future is ahead of you. — Ricky Maye

He stoops down even into the spiritual nursery and carefully watches over spiritual infants like us. — Peter Kreeft

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. — Agatha Christie

What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides. — Matt Taibbi

I'm just interested in what makes a photograph. — Mary Ellen Mark

Will you ever be anything more than a vessel transmitting the genes and memes of previous generations on to the next? — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

For a performer, passion is far more important than technical skills. If a dancer's leg isn't at a perfect angle, I can see past that, but if someone's dead in the face, it's really boring. — Louise Nurding

President Obama announced that he's going to reopen diplomatic relations with Cuba. He wants to act before Seth Rogen makes a movie about Castro. — Conan O'Brien

The classic definition of slapstick runs along the line of, Funny is someone else ramming his face repeatedly into a brick wall. — Katherine Dunn