Quotes On Examination Hall

#1. Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.

Sai Baba

#2. Art history became an A-level option at my school the year I started sixth form. This happened because another student and I cajoled and bullied the head of the art department into arranging it with the examination board.

Sarah Hall

#3. Whoever can lift a rifle, should have one.

Kliment Voroshilov

#4. Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.

Sophocles

#5. Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising.

St. Lucia

#6. These dogs didn't bother to bond with us, but stuck out their paws, not to shake hands but so we could slit their wrists and get it the hell over with. (p.51)

Stephanie Powell Watts

#7. Probably a dozen times since their death I've heard my mother or father, in an ordinary conversational tone of voice, call my name. They had called my name often during my life with them ... It doesn't seem strange to me.

Carl Sagan

#8. There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

Joseph Campbell

#10. Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.

H.L. Mencken

#11. Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.

Chanakya

#12. National security is vital for economic and social progress.

Paul Kagame

#13. Creative attention means really giving our attention to what does not exist.

Simone Weil

#14. A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.

Renee Fleming

#15. I'd lost everything I had. I didn't have the heart to take from someone else." "Plus I would've sniped your ass.

Mindy McGinnis

#16. You only set out to prove what you have already decided to believe.

Stephen Batchelor