Perfervid Quotes

#1. The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.

G. Stanley Hall

#2. Awe is the salve that will heal our eyes.

Rumi

#3. When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

Michael Jordan

#4. Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level ... A writer is someone who writes.

Pat Schneider

#5. Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.

Abigail Van Buren

#6. The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.

John Dewey

#7. Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.

Denise Mina

#8. One of the presidents we could have done without ... There are some things I admire about Tyler, but there were also plenty of things that weren't so admirable ... The reason I have a certain amount of grudging respect for John Tyler is that he knew his own mind and stuck to his decisions.

Harry S. Truman

#9. People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn't. It's a convention.

Roy Lichtenstein