Lisieux Normandie Quotes

#1. The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.

Tom Robbins

#2. I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.

Fred Melamed

#3. Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.

Criss Jami

#4. Man made another imperceptible step toward his grave; but he saw close before him the delights of rest, the joys of the odorous tavern, and he was satisfied.

Maxim Gorky

#5. Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.

Walter Kirn

#6. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.

Oliver Goldsmith

#7. A look says more than words alone. That's a cliche, of course. But a cliche, also says more than words alone.

Herman Koch

#8. Hold tight to the mentality of being a student, meaning hold on to curiosity and approach life as a student.

Mahershala Ali