Refashioning Quotes

#1. Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.

Christopher Guest

#2. I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild youth.

Atticus Poetry

#3. He said it in the half-embarrassed, half-defiant tone of someone admitting that he belongs to a religious sect. "You

Ken Follett

#4. It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Voltaire

#5. If only there weren't so many other people in the world,' he said lugubriously.

D.H. Lawrence

#6. Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

Dionne Brand

#7. In some countries - Finland and Singapore and South Korea, for instance - future schoolteachers are recruited from the best college-bound students, whereas a teacher in the United States is more likely to come from the bottom half of her class.

Anonymous

#8. I have been Europe's last hope. She proved incapable of refashioning herself by means of voluntary reform. She showed herself impervious to charm and persuasion. To take her I had to use violence. (26th February)

Adolf Hitler

#9. The low cost of aggregating information also allowed the formalization of sharing [ ... ].

Clay Shirky

#10. Those who can afford private schooling need not worry about their children being deprived of art, music and literature in the classroom: they are more sheltered, for now, from the doctrine of efficiency that has been radically refashioning the public school curriculum.

Azar Nafisi

#11. Reef lit a hemp-and-tobacco cigarette and reviewed his situation, while around him infectious melodies and rhythms went on refashioning the night.

Thomas Pynchon