The Village Schoolmaster Quotes

#1. The village schoolmaster took us for instructive walks ('what you hear is the sound of a scythe being sharpened' ; 'that field there will be given a rest next season ';'oh, just a small bird...no special name '; 'if that peasant is drunk, it is because he is poor ') 71

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas.

Joshua Schachter

#3. There are only three million people in Uruguay, but there is such hunger for glory: you'll do anything to make it; you have that extra desire to run, to suffer. I can't explain our success, but I think that's a reason.

Luis Suarez

#4. I would rather die now than to live a life of oblivious ease in so sick a world.

Nate Saint

#5. My top lady advice is to make eye contact early on - before introductions, even - and just never break it, no matter what she does. Keep that dead-eyed lock on her. Works like a charm.

Chris Cain

#6. You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair

#7. Serious rational criticism is so rare that it should be encouraged. Being too ready to defend oneself is more dangerous than being too ready to admit a mistake.

Karl Popper

#8. The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.

John Harvey Kellogg

#10. It's all about being a part of something in the community, socializing with people who share interests and coming together to help improve the world we live in.

Zach Braff

#11. We all make mistakes. Go and take your punishment, then come back and start again.

Jojo Moyes

#12. Whatever age we are is the age we've always been.

Graydon Carter

#13. Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.

Franz Kafka

#14. Maybe in fairytales you're only as old as you feel, but here in L. A. you're every second as old as your pores.

Lois Greiman

#15. She was the kind
Of complicated
That people got lost in;
They all wanted to save her,
But all she wanted
Was love.

Chris Mc Geown

#16. And by not accepting what we've been created to accomplish, we'll never feel fully satisfied with what we do accomplish in life.

Chris Durso

#17. been tumbled smooth by waves

Claire Cook