Bernhards Garage Quotes

#1. The scientific method is nothing more than a system of rules to keep us from lying to each other.

Ken Norris

#2. A life without God is like a boat without an anchor.

Billy Graham

#3. But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room.

Miep Gies

#4. And this was something I would always wonder about - how the lines were drawn to define mental illness. When did a little depression become pathological? When did anxiety turn into something bigger, something greater and more cautionary about your own stability?

Kate Axelrod

#5. I don't want anyone to get seriously hurt. But I do watch awards shows to critique the clothes while I sit around eating chips in my sweat pants and in hopes of seeing some hilarious accidental nudity.

Eliza Coupe

#6. Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term "we" or "us" and at the same time decreases those labeled "you" or "them" until that category has no one left in it. - Howard Winters (115)

Carol Lynn Pearson

#7. The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand ... We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

Jean Cocteau

#8. We hate old friends: we hate old books: we hate old opinions; and at last we come to hate ourselves.

William Hazlitt

#9. Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

Benedict Of Nursia

#10. I don't buy idea of second chance.
With hope we make a lot of chances.

Toba Beta

#11. There is a story about a prisoner at Alcatraz who spent his nights in solitary confinement dropping a button on the floor then trying to find it again in the dark. Each night, in this manner, he passed the hours until dawn. I do not have a button. In all other respects, my nights are the same.

Jenny Offill

#12. It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars, have a horrendous performance record in later life.

John Taylor Gatto