Harmer Quotes

#1. Sometimes I think teachers like Ms. Harmer view creativity as something dirty and slightly embarrassing, and would prefer to turn kids into people who color inside the lines.

Generally speaking, I don't care much for lines.

Jenny Lundquist

#2. The punishment I was given was this existence.

Christine Zolendz

#3. In fact the original memory of Miss Blaides returned to me one morning when I was sitting in my cream distempered, strip-lighted, bare, sanitary, glaring, forlorn little cell at the Studio. In that place it was possible to know deep despondency.

Anthony Powell

#4. How can you be free, If you don't even know you're trap or lock inside?

Ann Marie Aguilar

#5. Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.

Lily King

#6. The moon rested right above the mountains, a place I call home.

Daniel Wallock

#7. I've always been able to vomit as silently as a ninja; it's a questionable talent and a poor party trick.

Jason Purdy

#8. People who have never had a broken heart will never understand dead roses, Tolstoy, airport lounges, Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor, neat brandy, the moon and drizzle.

Wendy Harmer

#9. The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms.

Franz Kafka

#10. Ah come on, these streams of light are not so subtle. All along the ditch, signs of life in sinking puddles!

Sarah Harmer

#11. My guess is that most Australians today would vote for Babe. A piglet who dreams of being a statesmanlike sheepdog. Who merely by asking politely, can lead the electorate two by two through the gate where the grass is always greener.

Wendy Harmer

#12. The richest of all lords is Use,
And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea,
Drink the wild air's salubrity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. The American essayist William Deresiewicz wrote that "no real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.

Michael Finkel