Schooled By Gordon Korman Important Quotes

#1. The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.

Susan Sontag

#2. I've always assumed he'd be around to be, you know, yelled at and taken for granted. And of course I was wrong. Nobody's going to put up with that forever.

MaryJanice Davidson

#3. Shadowhunters lived through scars. Sometimes he thought they lived for them.

Cassandra Clare

#4. I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying to get them to stop selling dope. You see kids with AK-47s, and nine-year-olds with nine millimeters. You know, they don't play. They make us look like nuns.

Quincy Jones

#5. If somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.

Taylor Swift

#6. He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Lao-Tzu

#7. I love you," he declared. "Loved you then. Love you now. Never quit lovin' you in a way I know I never will. You were it for me, the only one, the only woman I ever loved, and you never quit bein' it.

Kristen Ashley

#8. Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie said irritably to Izzie."
"Because life is an adventure, of course."
"I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course.

Kate Atkinson

#9. It's not only how much money you make. It's what you do with it that determines your financial condition.

Sandra S. Simmons

#10. Being in the Boy Scouts, you don't think about whether people are gay or straight. You're busy putting up tents and learning to cut sausages.

Boy George

#11. A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.

William Booth

#12. And that laughter of hers, which, for the rest of his life, would make him feel as if someone was running around barefoot on the inside of his breast.

Fredrik Backman

#13. Many dreams come true, and some have silver linings

Led Zeppelin

#14. Age had taught him patience. Youth had taught me to get frustrated at the lack of progress.

Jeaniene Frost

#15. People think computers are different from people because they don't have minds, even though, in the Turing test, computers can have conversations with people about the weather and wine and what Italy is like, and they can even tell jokes.

Mark Haddon