Uvic Housing Quotes & Sayings

In fact, second lieutenants were primary-school teachers. Sure, teachers with guns, but a platoon commander was, nonetheless, the guy who sorted out the working day for 30 men under his command, taught their lessons, helped them with their homework, sorted out their petty squabbles and put plasters on their knees when they fell over in the playground. — Patrick Hennessey

In my mind I know the name of an ocean the size of everything that was. My mouth can only call it death. — Catherynne M Valente

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. — Oscar Wilde

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague. — Max Cannon

I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked myself what the world would be like if men lost the word 'I.' — Ayn Rand

Yes, seven years old she was, when she finally plucked up the courage to ask her mother what Christmas was all about, and Mrs Castaway replied (once only, after which the subject was forever forbidden): 'It's the day Jesus Christ died for our sins. Evidently unsuccessfully, since we're still paying for them. — Michel Faber

Some people enjoy life - others just survive. — Debasish Mridha

This is comfortable and clean and familiar. Apart from a tendency among men of a certain age to wear knee-high socks with shorts, these people are just like you and me. — Bill Bryson

The plural of anecdotes is not data — Ben Goldacre

I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side. — E.P. Thompson