Valinoti Dito Quotes & Sayings

Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state. — Jonathan Kozol

In between bites of banana, Mr. Remora would tell stories, and the children would write the stories down in notebooks, and every so often there would be a test. The stories were very short, and there were a whole lot of them on every conceivable subject. "One day I went to the store to purchase a carton of milk," Mr. Remora would say, chewing on a banana. "When I got home, I poured the milk into a glass and drank it. Then I watched television. The end." Or: "One afternoon a man named Edward got into a green truck and drove to a farm. The farm had geese and cows. The end." Mr. Ramora would tell story after story, and eat banana after banana, and it would get more and more difficult for Violet to pay attention. — Lemony Snicket

Against fantasists. - The fantasist denies reality to himself, the liar does so only to others. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands. — Sarah Dunant

To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him. — Al-Shafi'i

In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and character of an antique coin among smooth shillings. — Mary Russell Mitford

It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution. — Russ Feingold

Sometimes in the heat of the battle you just got to calm down and use what you do in practice to avoid the penalties. — DeMarcus Ware

Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices, the linkages, or lack thereof. — Mark Leyner

Improvisation is a compositional method. — Evan Parker

Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics — Werner Heisenberg