7th Grader Quotes

#1. Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.

Aaron Swartz

#2. I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I mean that literally. For me literature is a way of knowing that I am not hallucinating, that whatever I feel/know is.

Barbara Christian

#3. It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Brian Eno

#4. If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.

Vittorio Alfieri

#5. It's what we chase but never find. It is the mystery of our lives, the understanding that even when we have everything we want it is one day to leave us. It's the something unseen, the lurking devastation, the darkness that gives our lives dimension.

Marisha Pessl

#6. Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds.

Paulo Coelho

#7. All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves.

Marilyn Manson

#8. You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

John Galliano

#9. Although using wildcards and unnamed columns satisfies the goal of less typing, this habit creates several hazards.

Anonymous

#10. Her body was spattered with tiny bits of the reverend's flesh and blood, like someone had combined shrimp and tomato soup and then forgot to put the lid on the blender.

Chelsea Cain

#11. I've never been a particular fan of any genre.

Jewel Staite

#12. Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.

Damon Galgut

#13. Doctors troubleshoot the human body - they never got a chance to debug it. (It took God one day to design, prototype, and release that product; talk about schedule pressure! I guess we can forgive priority-two bugs like bunions and male pattern baldness.)

David J. Agans

#14. You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.

David Markson

#15. There is no governing structure for a pandemic, and little more than vague political pressure to ensure limited access to life-sparing tools and medicines for more than half the world population.

Laurie Garrett