Connaught School Quotes

#1. The average citizen now has near-instantaneous access to information about events in every nation on earth.

Alain De Botton

#2. It is really so nice here-country-busy-busy with so many different kinds of things- ... I must say I feel far away in another world here- ... always we go to a new place ... the people have a kind of gentleness that isn't usual on the mainland.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#3. If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.

Vikram Seth

#4. I used to be into 'forbidden fruit', but I've moved on to'verboten vegetables

Josh Stern

#5. 'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.

Tyler Perry

#6. Your energy and enjoyment, drive and dedication will stimulate and greatly inspire others.

John Wooden

#7. Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader's skull and heart.

Siri Hustvedt

#8. For me, and for many other people with disabilities, our status as disabled people is one of which we are fiercely proud.

Stella Young

#9. I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

Peter Dinklage

#10. I found it very helpful not to do the venture round. Instead, I started with very little money, a few thousand dollars, and I did every job myself. I was the first photographer. I was the first customer service rep. I was the first online marketing person.

Jon Oringer

#11. Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

Adam Lambert

#12. Don't let him take you from me.

Suzanne Collins

#13. You can hit a home run. If you are honest, you'll know when it's perfect because at that critical moment of connection, there was no sense of being there. That is perfect play. There is no self involved.

Frederick Lenz

#14. The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.

Penelope Lively

#15. There's issue of a corrupt campaign finance system, where big money interests and Wall Street are trying to buy elections.Those are the issues that are resonating.

Bernie Sanders