Carlette Brown Quotes

#1. Though unmusical, German is the most expressive of all languages,

Arthur Conan Doyle

#2. But if you believe that adults can 'make' children learn well - in the absence of or in defiance of a child's inner sense of confident engagement with the power of discovery and mastery - then, in my view, you are placing that child at great risk of failure as a learner.

Kirsten Olson

#3. every line
inside his palm
and every fold
of his skin told me
the men like him
were made to be
written about.

Lauren Eden

#4. There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in Childhood's End. But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are.

Arthur C. Clarke

#5. Percy," Grover said, "the gods really don't appreciate people sitting in their thrones. I mean like turn-you-into-a-pile-of-ashes don't appreciate it.

Rick Riordan

#6. Experience is a supreme teacher, but experience is not something that can be taught. It has to be learned through choice and consequence.

Toni Sorenson

#7. Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.

Noel Gallagher

#8. Everybody deserves a fresh start every once in a while.

Bugsy Siegel

#9. An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.

William Shakespeare

#10. The emphasis was helped by the speaker's hair, which bristled on the skirts of his bald head, a plantation of firs to keep the wind from its shining surface, all covered with knobs, like the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside.

Charles Dickens

#11. Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.

Chris Priestley

#12. Accusations are made directly to Rome about theologians from persons who are not theologians. Some of these accusations are anonymous. The local bishop should be the one to relate to theologians to determine orthodoxy.

Godfried Danneels

#13. I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.

Katherine Applegate

#14. She seemed to fold into herself, like a pleated wing. Her pain antagonized me. I wanted to open her up, crisp her edges, ram a stick down that hunched and curving spine, force her to stand erect and spit the misery out on the streets. But she held it in where it could lap up into her eyes.

Toni Morrison

#15. Olduvai Gorge gives us one of the most remarkable stories of the past-the last chapter of the Earth's history, starting at the present day, right away back 2 million years.

Louis Leakey