Intended Curriculum Quotes

#1. The not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.

Ellen Hopkins

#2. A person who cultivates any interest in self-improvement will necessary encounter successes and failures, both of which life lessons can be useful to remember when seeking distant mileposts. Failure stimulates evaluation and new learning. Success stimulates development and retention of good habits.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#3. Everyone wants a Christmas tree. If you had a Christmas tree Santa would bring you stuff! Like hair curlers and slut shoes.

Janet Evanovich

#4. There is nothing wrong with my mind.

Matt Emmons

#5. Let the Stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake.

Annie Dillard

#7. I really haven't seen this many people in one place since they took group photographs of all the criminals and lawbreakers in the Ronald Reagan administration.

George Carlin

#8. To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

Benjamin Franklin

#9. Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.

Daniel Radcliffe

#10. Locke sighed.
'So this is winning,' he said.
'It is,' replied Jean.
'It can go fuck itself,' said Locke.

Scott Lynch

#11. Trust is like glass. Lovely, but only a fool rests lots of weight on it.

Joe Abercrombie

#12. This life is not about our comfort. We have an eternity for that. I really think this is about training and testing. We will have work to do in Heaven, work that is fulfilling and perfect for us. God needs to develop certain skill sets in us before that time. That may be what this life is about.

Terri Blackstock

#13. We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.

Michael Shermer

#14. One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

Giorgio Morandi

#15. There are things that happen that change the course of people's lives, but it's a function of everybody's lives.

Nicholas Sparks