Unbarring Octave Quotes & Sayings

Oh my research. Well, I got an English Degree. And I got that degree in a certain time/at a certain place. If you add UC Berkeley + 1984 the other side of the = is "new historian" meaning that I studied with and was influenced by those who were interested in how the personal shaped the political (and literary), how science and literature might interact, and what the body got to do with it. — Laura Mullen

By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings. — Arthur Miller

No one can really picture an African as a businessman. In order to change the current situation, it would be helpful if the aid organizations were to pull out. — James Shikwati

Now he is a man who could talk to God and the devil and make them work they difference
as long as neither of them have a woman. — Marlon James

Michael Lewis, the author of Moneyball, wrote in the New York Times in February 2009, The virus that infected professional baseball in the 1990s, the use of statistics to find new and better ways to value players and strategies, has found its way into every major sport. Not just basketball and football, but also soccer and cricket and rugby and, for all I know, snooker and darts - — Anonymous

Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should be allowed to discover knowledge for themselves, that they should construct their own knowledge. This has surfaced most recently in connection with mathematics instruction, where the idea is that they need to discover how to add for themselves. Rather than being taught how to add, they should construct this knowledge on their own. — Lynne Cheney

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived. — Winston Churchill

I live in Florida and people are crazy here. And I say that lovingly. — Amy Seimetz

I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon. — Billy Sunday