Symposium Famous Quotes & Sayings

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows. — Placido Domingo

Wasn't it Jesus who noted that children have special insight? (Luke 18:17) Perhaps it'd do me good to climb a few trees and listen more for the wind these days. — Seth Haines

Pay attention to what you're passionate about when no one is paying you. — Jessica Walsh

The South is like a foreign country to me! — Richard LaGravenese

What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way. — Jean Illsley Clarke

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized. — Gustav Mahler

the only way to eliminate hypocrisy from human existence is to abandon all principles whatsoever; — Theodore Dalrymple

There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft. There is great need for a rapid increase in the productivity of learning. There is, above all, great need for methods that will make the teacher effective and multiply his or her efforts and competence. Teaching is, in fact, the only traditional craft in which we have not yet fashioned the tools that make an ordinary person capable of superior performance. In this respect, teaching is far behind medicine, where the tools first became available a century or more ago. — Peter Drucker

If you're a true student of the truth, you may easily get frustrated when people try to make points based on mysticism and cultural beliefs. — Assegid Habtewold

Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby? — Thurgood Marshall

All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front of our eyes from time to time. The difference between an average man and a warrior is that the warrior is aware of this, and one of his tasks is to be alert, deliberately waiting, so that when his cubic centimeter pops out he has the necessary speed, the prowess, to pick it up. — Carlos Castaneda

If only memory were a library with everything stored where it should be. If only you could walk to the desk and say to the assistant, I'd like to return the painful memories about David Fry or indeed his mother and take out some happier ones, please. About stickleback fishing with my father. Or picnicking on the banks of the Cherwell when I was a student. And the assistant would say, Certainly, madam. We have all those. Under "F" for "Fishing." As well as "P" for "Picnicking." You'll find them on your left. — Rachel Joyce

I leaned against Brent, resting my forehead against his cheek, but jerked back. "Brent you're hot."
Brent grinned lazily and puffed up his chest. "Thank you. It's a burden I must bear. — Lani Woodland