Les Amants Du Pont-neuf Quotes

#1. But if you believe that adults can 'make' children learn well - in the absence of or in defiance of a child's inner sense of confident engagement with the power of discovery and mastery - then, in my view, you are placing that child at great risk of failure as a learner.

Kirsten Olson

#2. One of the things that will keep The Front Page burning bright as long as newspapers are alive is the myth that newspapermen are breezy and raffish. What other play has for so long fed the self-image of journalists?

Jay Carr

#3. Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.

Cassandra Clare

#4. I don't fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future.

Patti Smith

#5. It is not the experiences of your life that determine your outcome. It is the meaning you attach to each experience.

Jim Hartness

#6. From this foul drain the greatest stream of human industry flows out to fertilize the whole world. From this filthy sewer gold flows. Here humanity attains its most complete development and its most brutish, here civilization works its miracles and civilized man is turned almost into a savage.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#7. I'm a traditional wife in every sense.

Monica Denise Brown

#8. It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.

Theodore White

#9. I'm literally online all day long, and if I don't get back to everyone, I'll stay up all night.

Brit Morin

#10. Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.

Henrik Ibsen

#11. I think everybody's political. The act of being alive is political. Unless you choose to be a hermit, you're automatically political because you're part of a community.

Julianne Moore

#12. Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.

William Bolcom