Memoir Horse Racing Quotes

#1. Students quickly receive the message that they can only be smart when they are not who they are. This, in many ways, is classroom colonialism; and it can only be addressed through a very different approach to teaching and learning.

Christopher Emdin

#2. Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.

Anne Roiphe

#3. The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

M. Night Shyamalan

#4. The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.

Alton Brown

#5. A human can be a real prick but maintain the capacity for good and a good hearted soul is capable of great evil. Never judge a person as absolutely one way or another because you sell the human race short when you do.

Jim McGarrah

#6. This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

Tacitus

#7. There is only one way to respect the substance of any purported God-given moral edict: consider it conscientiously in the full light of reason, using all the evidence at our command. No God that was pleased by displays of unreasoning love would be worthy of worship.

Daniel C. Dennett

#8. I think a lot of snowflakes are alike ... and I think a lot of people are alike too.

Bret Easton Ellis

#9. I'm a terrible husband.

Carroll Shelby

#10. Forget him, he's just another red-shirted extra making a cameo appearance in our lives.

Adrian McKinty

#11. If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will be what Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God.

Paul Krugman