Langevin Learning Quotes

#1. The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.

Herrick Johnson

#2. I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.

Diane Ackerman

#3. I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.

Diane Wakoski

#4. Swirling around my ears, the wind and I whooping at the sea, picking up speed, breathing it all in. An act of loving life.

Laurie Nadel

#5. I read everywhere. It's like a bodily function. I don't need quiet. I write and read with the TV on. I follow the TV show while I read. TV doesn't require a lot of brainpower.

Chris Abani

#6. < ... > tyranny is a central theme of American history, that racial exploitation and racial conflict have been part of the DNA of American culture.

David Brion Davis

#7. He did, however, know another feeling, one that had been taught to him by man: duty-- which we, who hardly know the meaning of the word ourselves, had imprinted on his consciousness-- and it was duty that obliged Ruslan to raise himself up.

Georgi Vladimov

#8. The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.

Horace Greeley

#9. I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

Irving Penn

#10. I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult to be the head of the household, financially. It is for the man in your life. It can be very hard for them. And there's a delicate balance. I'm not quite sure I know what that balance is just yet.

Jill Scott

#11. What the hell does it all mean? Does 11:11 really mean anything at all? Well, that simply depends on whether you believe life has meaning in the first place.

Harry Whitewolf