Quotes By Famous Authors: [L]
Good teachers are door openers in to that wisdom you already have inside
Socrates asks him the crucial question about education, and that is, If you study with this fellow, what will he make of you?
Recent gains in property prices suggest that Sydney's price-to-income ratio is closer to the 10x-income range. Unless
Teaching Ramanujan was like writing on a blackboard covered with excerpts from a more interesting lecture.
If you're any good at all, you know you can be better.
Character is what we are in the dark
Majority rule must stop at our unalienable rights. Without that, pure democratic rule is a terrible thing. It's like two wolves and a lamb voting ...
Look son, the Human Pig.(shocked)Mother, y-you're inhuman!(deadpan)Another animal could do this?
Suddenly all I wanted to do was watch Gronk do his thang-thang in the zone place there. My vagina demanded it.
I know, I know. You're a badass. The best of the best. But everyone has a weakness. Even you.
Science is not about what's true. It's about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by way of public evidence.
The kindness of strangers and the support of the international community are truly the rays of hope we North Korean people need.
G.P.A.'s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. We found that they don't predict anything.
The way that identity has been commercialised through movies and TV, and now through social networking, means we're all sort of working to a script, ...
I honestly love [my fans] so much. [Their] support is everything and I'm glad [they] liked [my confession].
I don't know about art but I know what I like
...shame can do things to people's minds. It warps them from the truth, allowing them only to see what they want to see.
The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of ...
Van Dusen emphasizes that our common conception of the mentally ill is flawed. The majority of them, he says, are not "raving lunatics" as one ...
Excessive freedom is no less a flight from difficulty than is an overarching order.
His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel.
I believe such passion-even passion born of fear and anxiety-is far better than a life of banality.
What the narrator comes to realize is that the past "cannot be described objectively" and that her present will always mediate her past.
Sometimes childhood reveals your life's passion.
When NBC News first assigned me to the Barack Obama campaign, I must confess my knees quaked a bit ... I wondered if I was ...
The past has passed. Grudges are a poison better ignored and forgotten. - Moroda
God, Jack, it makes you want to go out and convert the whole damn world to homosexuality," she told him. "Just so you can walk ...
Whenever you're feeling lonely, remember that there are people in this world who bless every one of us before they go to sleep at night. ...
Cool isn't for sale at the bondage store. You make it up yourself, pull it outta your asshole, your own unique brand that starts when ...
He understood it when other kids were mean to him. It didn't bother him. He simply hated them. As long as he hated them, it ...
Sometimes our emotions get in the way of our ability to make clear decisions and this was one of them. But I don't think you ...
Sometimes he does the brilliant things really well.
It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
If idiots could fly, the sky would be like an airport.
On the face of it, no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of ...
We all need good manners, like our friends from the zoo!
The Natural Step is a clear voice in the commotion.
A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockian - solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the process ...
All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of making ...
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
No music book has ever succeeded in miraculously replacing the listening experience.
The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore.
The beauty of the human soul Is not the pretty face. It's found within the heart and hands Of those who look - and stay. ...
Lose myself in your blueberry eyes Magnolia, kiss your mauve lips of grapes, squeeze your fleshy, milky macaroon breasts,smell your opium breath of subconsciousness, labyrinth ...
I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.
The shattered glass Of soundproof walls That can block the night no more Is scattered, alas, On the broken stillness Of a distant, darkened shore.
I'm one uncontrollable hunger away from ruin.
Obviously I attach myself so much to my songwriting. If I didn't attach myself to that being my sole attribute, then I would be fine ...
Never flew off the handle just keeping it realism.
A person who reads lives a thousand lives. A person who reads not, lives only one.