Teacher's Worst Nightmare Quotes & Sayings

My style statement is fun and flirty. My wardrobe must-haves are a good dress that can be styled differently, a good pair of jeans, and a few nice tops. — Tena Desae

Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' which blew the top of my head straight off. I've read it three times, and I'm still trying to figure out how she put that magnificent thing together. — Elizabeth Gilbert

People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it. — John Roos

What if the person you're meant to be with lives in another time? — Alexandra Monir

The breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors. — Amelia Barr

But I couldn't resist sneaking a peek at his crotch a minute later. And then my breath hitched, because holy shit, he was hard, a long, thick erection straining beneath his athletic shorts. I was sporting the same visible boner, and I know he saw it. He probably thought it was the porn. Hell, that was the only reason he was turned on. — Sarina Bowen

ShanTu said that we must set the soul free from the body and its lusts. Having thus got rid of the foolishness of the flesh, we shall be pure. While an admirable goal, the sisterhood has not found this practical. For whatever purpose, body and soul are joined. Denying one's bodily lusts is about as effective as prohibition, which is to say not effective at all. — Susan Cartwright

Philanthropy is the rent we pay for the joy and privilege we have for our space on this earth. — Jerold Panas

All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity. — George Bernard Shaw

She could allow herself to think of Jim, too. To remember the energy and the excitement of life bursting from him, surrounding her, making her laugh and dream and think-- that's what he represented. Not security just hope. — Kate Alcott

So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle, the Irish question, for instance,
the English question why did I not say? Their natures are subdued to what they work in. Their "good breeding" respects only secondary objects. — Henry David Thoreau

Every individual human being born on this earth has the capacity to become a unique and special person, unlike any who has ever existed before or ever will exist again. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

It's a lot easier to opine from the sidelines. — Dee Dee Myers

And for many, politics has become gestural: it is about refusing to engage with power on power's own terms; about action, not ideas; about the symbolic control of territory to create islands of utopia. — Paul Mason

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. — Soren Kierkegaard