Schoolma'ams Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I don't have time for regrets. I go forward; I'm a doer, and I always have projects and dreams.

Guler Sabanci

#3. I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of them has failed me at some pinch or another.

Anne Shirley

#4. I think sometimes we're meant to do something but things aren't lined up correctly.

Adam Lambert

#5. Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

Gabriel Marcel

#6. To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.

Tom Hodgkinson

#7. Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.

Susan Cain

#8. The parties happen when we book the studio. That's a safe place. Get alcohol, food, girls, homies, and have these small listening parties while I'm recording. And that energy always gets into the music.

DJ Quik

#9. What are my options?" she asked as I climbed into the driver's seat. "Meaningless euphemisms at one end and your full-on Unseen University at the other," I said. "The Unseen University is a bit like Hogwart's - " Stephanopoulos cut me off. "I have read some Terry Pratchett," she said.

Ben Aaronovitch

#10. Building on our successful partnership, we can now bring together the best of Microsoft's software engineering with the best of Nokia's product engineering, award-winning design, and global sales, marketing and manufacturing,

Stephen Elop

#11. Granted, in order to give selflessly, one often starts giving selfishly. As Tiresias said to Odysseus: "Honey ... you don't get through hell in a hurry"

Frederick Lenz

#12. In 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was just playing and having a good time.

Mary Badham

#13. This was something different and deadlier: a dance where the smallest misstep meant death.

George R R Martin

#14. East 103rd, New York, New York

Richard J. Alley

#15. Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

Margaret Thatcher