Zinser Elementary Quotes

#1. The thing with Kerry is that all of this is a natural progression, her troubles. It's a cycle.

Laura Innes

#2. From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama.

Roger Ebert

#3. Saer is a great big poop, and you shouldn't listen to anything he says," I said, panting just a little.
"Obviously, he was trying to demoralize me."
"Men who are poops demoralize people all the time," I agreed

Katie MacAlister

#4. Walking a trail frees my mind to wander....

Debra Lauman

#5. We used to languish when we walked, or sidle down the street like dogs that have just done something wrong. Now Rube walks upright, because he's on the attack.

Markus Zusak

#6. All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Peter Conrad

#7. People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone
by teasing, for example.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. Learning was an act of rediscovery, knowledge a form of remembering.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#9. I like transformative TV.

Tempestt Bledsoe

#10. Your slides should be a billboard not a document!

Lee Jackson

#11. Four was difficult and misunderstood, a genius before its time, it belonged to the planet of unexpected disaster.

Janet Fitch

#12. Look at each day as a chance to invest life into life. A chance to share your experience and deposit it into someone else's conscience. Each day is a chance to work miracles in the lives of others.

Jim Rohn

#13. Cinco de Mayo is an important day. The Mexicans had to defend themselves from the French. It is historically significant, but it is not Mexican Independence Day.

Kuno Becker

#14. The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.

Samuel Johnson

#15. Good writing like good sex requires discipline.

Chloe Thurlow