Richard Livingstone Quotes

#1. It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.

Richard M. Nixon

#2. When I was a little boy, I was reading Dante and I was saying to myself 'Bravo, Dante, Bravo.' It's so beautiful, the music, the sound, the meaning. I felt like calling him by phone, like a friend.

Roberto Benigni

#3. I felt like going out on the road and mixing it with music - which is something young people are always really interested in - would be a good way to proselytize. It was like feminist evangelism.

Kathleen Hanna

#4. I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.

Patrick Ness

#5. If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.

Richard Livingstone

#6. The stock prices of networking equipment companies like Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks sometimes seem as if they are priced for perpetual success.

Alex Berenson

#7. The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form.

Pythagoras

#8. Our danger is not too few, but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.

Richard Livingstone

#9. I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?

Joan Didion

#10. One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal.

Richard Livingstone

#11. After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.

Colleen Haskell

#12. God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

William Ellery Channing

#13. The test of successful education is not the amount of knowledge that pupils take away from school, but their appetite to know and their capacity to learn.

Richard Livingstone

#14. Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the word-the vocation to use his powers and live his life well.

Richard Livingstone

#15. I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

Richard Livingstone

#16. The thing I've learned writing my book is that everyone has the potential to be a poet, and all of our lives are epic.

Jonathan Heatt

#17. Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.

Richard Livingstone

#18. The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action.

Richie Benaud

#19. There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may resent the labor of storing. But they sleep in the memory and awake in later years, illuminated by life and illuminating it.

Richard Livingstone

#20. He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

Rainer Maria Rilke