Gertz Department Quotes

#1. If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

Denis Diderot

#2. There's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.

L.M. Montgomery

#3. British audiences tend to want to see their own lives reflected on TV, whereas American audiences are quite aspirational and enjoy high-concept shows that show them lives that are perhaps slightly more exciting than they aspire to.

Adam Rayner

#4. There is nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either.

Dean Koontz

#5. For the French, an intellectual didn't have to be responsible. That wasn't his job.

Michel Houellebecq

#6. American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

Diane Ravitch

#7. A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public

Mark Twain

#8. Then occurred a rare thing about which men and women sometimes dream. They carried on a full conversation in complete silence, discerning feelings, plans, exclamations, jokes, opinions, laughter, and dreams- rapidly, silently, inexplicably.

Mark Helprin

#9. I had the strongest trade association in the world backing me up.

Joseph Heller

#10. I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life's essential absurdity.

Stephen King

#11. For a thousand years,
and then a thousand more ... I will love you.

Jamie McGuire