Blind Students Quotes

#1. A majority of my blind students at the International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs in Trivandrum, India, a branch of Braille Without Borders, came from the developing world: Madagascar, Colombia, Tibet, Liberia, Ghana, Kenya, Nepal and India.

Rosemary Mahoney

#2. Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences.

Joseph Addison

#3. While there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics ...

Hilary Putnam

#4. One of the things that's been nice about my career is that I've been able to do so many different things, and variety keeps your creative soul fulfilled. I'm constantly looking to find new things to do. It's just project to project for me. You never know where the next thing's going to come from.

Drew Goddard

#5. I don't believe in classes where students criticize each other's manuscripts. Such criticism is generally composed in equal parts of ignorance, flattery, and spite. It's the blind leading the blind, and it can be dangerous. A teacher who tries to impose a way of writing on you can be dangerous, too.

Flannery O'Connor

#6. Ah, marriage. The kind of union we have affects our children infinitely more than the schools we put them in, the activities we sign them up for, or the church we take them to. Our kids are learning relational habits by osmosis, and statistics say they'll likely imitate what they witness at home.

Jen Hatmaker

#7. It's so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. It's like the world's weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, 'Who is this tool standing up in front of us?'

Libba Bray

#8. Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want.

Giorgio Moroder

#9. Loneliness flooded his whole body like it was a physical sensation, not merely a feeling. Like it was a liquid that had replaced his blood and flowed inside his veins as his heart pumped it through.

Cynthia Kadohata

#10. As for money - when I have it, it's great. When I don't, I go get some. I've been a dishwasher, a gardener, a cleaner.

Gil Scott-Heron

#11. If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody.

Clifford Stoll

#12. I don't worry about things that aren't important.

Benjamin Carson

#13. When I go visit my brother monks in Japan and sit down with other Zen Masters, they look at my crazy clothes and my strange expression, but they feel the power that emanates from my dedication to the practice. So they are comfortable with me, yet they're very uncomfortable.

Frederick Lenz

#14. Dream, Dream Dream Dreams transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action.

Abdul Kalam

#15. Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.

David Coverdale

#16. It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

Philip Sidney

#17. To say that life is nothing but a property of certain peculiar combinations of atoms is like saying that Shakespeare's Hamlet is nothing but a property of a peculiar combination of letters.

Ernst F. Schumacher

#18. To understand the truth of everything,
it took guts more than simply thinking.

Toba Beta