Myles Horton Quotes

#1. Nothing will change until we change - until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves.

Myles Horton

#2. If you salt a chicken the day before cooking, it starts to break down the cell structure of the meat and allows it to take on more flavor and actually helps it to stay more moist. Same goes for a steak, a pork chop. A lot of people brine; we preseason.

Michael Symon

#3. If you only try to do the things where you win, then you'll never try to do anything worth doing.

Myles Horton

#4. I think if I had to put a finger on what I consider a good education, a good radical education, it wouldn't be anything about methods or techniques. It would be loving people first.

Myles Horton

#5. This is a problem, how can we have a body of knowledge and understanding and resist the temptation to misread the interest of the people because we're looking for an opportunity to unload this great load of gold that we have stored up?

Myles Horton

#6. We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that.

Jeff Ament

#7. What the most of the people conceive as romantic love, is just the desire and appetite sourced from their genitals.

M. T. Panchal

#8. I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.

Myles Horton

#9. You can padlock a building, but you can't padlock an idea.

Myles Horton

#10. Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with weary feet, Until it joins some larger way, Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. The critic said, but don't you feel awkward about biting the hand that feeds you? I said no, I enjoy just gnawing it up to the shoulder.

Myles Horton

#12. Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.

Myles Horton

#13. Confidence is instrumental to those climbing out of poverty.

Ann Cotton

#14. You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.

Myles Horton

#15. Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

Brian Eno

#16. I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Moore

#17. Jonathon Matthew Pulmer you are not the boss of me. Now go prance your butt into your car and stop acting like King Henry VIII. The world does not revolve around you." -Kylie

Micalea Smeltzer

#18. Any decent society has to be built on trust and love and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education involves being able to practice those things as you struggle to build a decent society that can be nonviolent.

Myles Horton

#19. There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.

Thomas Huxley

#20. Six years of denying that he's the orbit of my world.

A.G. Howard

#21. I don't know what to do, and if I did know what to do I wouldn't tell you, because if I had to tell you today then I'd have to tell you tomorrow, and when I'm gone you'd have to get somebody else to tell you.

Myles Horton