Stancliff School Quotes

#1. There are two types of sages: sages who tell us what we should do and sages who tell us what we shouldn't do.

Eraldo Banovac

#2. I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

Aeschylus

#3. If you have a body, you are an athlete!

Bill Bowerman

#4. Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.

Michael Franti

#5. You should only become a writer if the possibility of not becoming one would kill you.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#6. I'm a pretty intense person. And I don't know if intense is fun. I put myself through the wringer. That's just how I work.

El-P

#7. There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities

Moliere

#8. I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#9. I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter - I just didn't identify as a songwriter at all.

Beth Ditto

#10. Anybody can be good when things are going good, but a real player steps up when things are going bad.

Daunte Culpepper

#11. I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

William Graham Sumner

#12. This new resolve gave her a sort of light-headed self-confidence: when she left the dinner-table she felt so easy and careless that she was surprised to see that the glass of champagne beside her plate was untouched. She felt as if all its sparkles were whirling through her.

Edith Wharton