Judith Fetterley Quotes

#1. Confusing experience with the memory of it is a compelling cognitive illusion - and it is the substitution that makes us believe a past experience can be ruined.

Daniel Kahneman

#2. Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative

Eliot Wigginton

#3. Please don't smile like that. Your heart is full of feelings that you've kept to yourself. Don't laugh as if you don't know anything.

Arina Tanemura

#4. I've never gone to culinary school, but I do love cooking.

Keshia Knight Pulliam

#5. I have such bad insomnia and sometimes with insomnia, you can sort of relax and read a book, but anyone who has insomnia knows that other times, it generates incredible anxiety.

Jai Uttal

#6. Even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene. He could not stop the rain now, just as he would not attempt to start it in the heart of the dry season, without serious danger to his own health.

Chinua Achebe

#7. That was the worst of growing up, she thought; they couldn't share things as they used to share them.

Virginia Woolf

#8. We live our life in chains not knowing we always had the keys.

Eagles

#9. Oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term.

Moby

#10. I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.

Jonny Greenwood

#11. All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.

Iain Banks

#12. My parents are high school sweethearts.

Becky G

#13. I have an inate curiosity about people.

Martin Bashir

#14. Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.

Steven Millhauser

#15. Lizzy Elmsworth was not a good-tempered girl, but she was too intelligent to let her temper interfere with her opportunities.

Edith Wharton