Coates Academy Quotes

#1. Latin motto of Coates Academy: Ad augusta, per angusta. To high places by narrow roads. They're

Michael Grant

#2. Two persons have been elected to the offices of President and Vice-President exclusively by the people of ONE SECTION of the country ... A clearer case of foreign domination could not well be presented.

John Willis Ellis

#3. croton oil on the string beans and stirred it in. She went to her room and

John Steinbeck

#4. This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.

Ossian Everett Mills

#5. You dumb-ass ape, get your hand off me. What - are you the first in your family to be born without a tail?

Cherise Sinclair

#6. I could never go onstage in denims.

Elton John

#7. I also couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.

Lukas Haas

#8. Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.

Sherman Alexie

#9. You dress for the world, but under that, you dress for me. I own your softest places, and what touches them is mine.

C.D. Reiss

#10. Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.

Elizabeth Montagu

#11. I'm not perfect, but if there are any points given for caring about people with every fiber of your being and giving life all you've got every day, then I suppose I have a shot.

Jack Welch

#12. Grief is a humble angel who leaves you with strong, clear thoughts and a sense of your own depth. Depression is a demon who leaves you appalled.

Andrew Solomon

#13. Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class.

Doris Lessing

#14. She had once been the belle of her circle of small tradesmen and salesmen, but now her little pig eyes with their swollen lids could scarcely open.

Boris Pasternak

#15. If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.

Socrates

#16. Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable.

Piet Pieterszoon Hein