Didact Quotes

#1. What I could not understand was why the Didact had decided to save one of those very weapons whose creation he had so decisively opposed.

Greg Bear

#2. I'm an auto-didact; I taught myself what that means.

Geoffrey Feller

#3. UR-DIDACT: This being was not the Primordial I encountered on Charum Hakkor, but something else entirely - though it retained the Primordial's motives and thoughts and memories. It was a Gravemind - the Gravemind, more accurately. It was the Primordial's final act of revenge.

Greg Bear

#4. I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggler Francis Brunn, who was the first man to throw ten rings in the air; he was really an amazing juggler who showed onstage the quest for perfection.

Philippe Petit

#5. I'd like to do Broadway if the right project came along, but my mission in life is that I want to help change people's lives.

Derek Hough

#6. Of all the thousands of gifts I received in my eight years in the White House, few were more welcome and needed than these twelve intangible gifts of discernment, peace, compassion, faith, fellowship, vision, forgiveness, grace, wisdom, love, joy and courage.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#7. Tough love doesn't work. Turns out that just good old 'love' is enough.

Matt Haig

#8. I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others.

Bethany Mota

#9. I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.

Jamaica Kincaid

#10. Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising, memorable, and light.

Ken Macrorie

#11. You know that you are a teacher when you spend more money on school stuff than you do on your own children.

Jeff Foxworthy

#12. The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy" (Psalm 103:8).

John Goetsch

#13. Frankly, you need to get over yourself. It might sound harsh, but that's seriously what it means [1 Corinthians 10:31].

Francis Chan

#14. I would like to meet Mikhail Gorbachev. I think it would be great to sit in a room with him ... and try to make peace.

Donnie Wahlberg

#15. I went to see Chicago after I finished shooting, and say what you want about it, but that thing was so meticulously planned. It was planned like NASA planned its trips to the moon. It made me feel like some sort of horrible dilettante.

Guy Maddin

#16. It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

Isadora Duncan