Remembering School Quotes

#1. Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

Alfred De Vigny

#2. For large values of 1, 1 approaches 2, for small values of 2.

Keith Caserta

#3. For every young person living on the streets tonight, there are many at home zoning out inside their homes through video games, and even more who disengage from school. These are direct effects of internalized discrimination based on their age.

Adam Fletcher

#4. My issues with it are that simply in terms of my own work. It represents 30 years of output. And some of the things, some of the pieces I've used there, when I first wrote them, they seemed probably very menacing, and I hear them now, and they're just kind of pleasant, if that's the word.

Richard Meltzer

#5. A smile from an attractive woman at a bar very rarely ends up in any sort of sexual encounter. But a man is a fool not to push the suggestion as far as it will go, and he's that man.

Scarlett Johansson

#6. Gotta bounce," I say, remembering that's what I heard someone say to someone sometime somewhere, at school or maybe it was on TV, or in a movie, probably not even from this decade, but who cares, all I know is I have to get away before I evaporate or crumple or cry.

Jandy Nelson

#7. Ah. Yeah, that would be better. Have you ever driven a bus?"
Caine shook his head. "No, I have not."
"Strangely enough," Sam said, remembering the long ago moment of terror and competence that had earned him the nicknames School Bus Sam, "I have.

Michael Grant

#8. You know your relationship has run its course when, despite any feelings you may still harbour, it just is not worth the heartache anymore.

Shane K.P. O'Neill

#9. All this while the little panel of pine wood remained over the chimney in the mill-kitchen with the cuckoo clock and the waxen Calvary, and sometimes it seemed to Nello a little hard that whilst his gift was accepted he himself should be denied.

Ouida

#10. In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.

Richard J. Foster

#11. The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

Seneca The Younger

#12. Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge.

Werner Herzog

#13. I would only believe in a God that wold know how to dance.

Fredrich Nietzsche

#14. There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#15. We cannot do anything for the people we love, except to keep on loving them.

Fernando Savater

#16. To all of us the thought of heaven is dear
Why not be sure of it and make it here?
No doubt there is a heaven yonder too,
But 'tis so far away
and you are near.

Omar Khayyam