Goodbye Hometown Quotes

#1. I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for those purposes the two cultures is about right.

C.P. Snow

#2. In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Sugata Mitra

#3. If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

Frank Langella

#4. Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.

Mason Cooley

#5. He groaned and murmured, "If I didn't think I was going to die, I'd have you right here.

Zoe Forward

#6. I have this comfort immediately, that it has not been more than an error of fancy on my side, and that it has done no harm to anyone but myself.

Jane Austen

#7. I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

Joel Osteen

#8. Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. I was starting to think, maybe you need to feel your way more through life - just turn off the lights and follow your senses, even if you stumble once in a while. Maybe that's what falling in love is like. Just feeling your way through the darkness until you find something solid to hold on to.

Katie Kacvinsky

#10. Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.

Martin Freeman

#11. We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship we aim at ourselves.

Seth

#12. I don't have to stop you. All I have to do is slow you down.
-Ganner Rhysode

Matthew Woodring Stover

#13. [On golf:] ... though aware I could never be more than a humble potterer, it was impossible to repress the wild upsurgings of hope known to all middle-aged beginners ...

Ethel Smyth

#14. Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.

Timothy Zahn