Lajos Egri Quotes

#1. Hence [through No Child Left Behind] the state has been given power...to fire all teachers and principles. So here we have an unusual case in which the students are engaged in the performances, but the high stakes have been displaced onto the teachers who are preparing their charges for the exams.

James M. Lang

#2. Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.

Marty Robbins

#3. As I graduated high school, it didn't faze me anymore. Right now, I don't even care what people think of me. I'm happy with myself.

Nicole Polizzi

#4. No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

Lajos Egri

#5. I hated pitch meetings. Pitch meetings were my least favorite part of the week. I just gave up. I was so terrible at them.

Bill Hader

#6. Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em.

Bryan Procter

#7. I always carry the book of Holy Writ ... and something to read ...

Elizabeth Peters

#8. Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'

Lajos Egri

#9. A wasted human being
that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.

Samuel Hopkins Adams

#10. Although you should never mention your premise in the dialogue of your play, the audience must know what the message is. And whatever it is, you must prove it.

Lajos Egri

#11. Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.

Lajos Egri

#12. I think ghosts would be some energy that hasn't found a home yet. I don't think they have any personal attachment to what is happening here. I've definitely been in a place where I've felt some energy that someone was watching me.

Jeordie White

#13. After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

John Huston

#14. Act to create beauty without expecting results.

Debasish Mridha

#15. When you begin to run after miracles you devalue yourself.

Sunday Adelaja