Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. Laing

Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

David Harris

I've seen a demonstration for children when they all stand around a piano to play a piece of music, but each person can only play their note. It's a similar concept.

Jenny Nimmo

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

Ronda Reid

I've noticed them before, but I never really thought about using them. Maybe if I was shopping with young children I'd use them.

Terry Wogan

I've no patience for people who say they never watch television. It's a great way to keep in touch with popular culture, and it's important that children can relate to what their schoolmates are watching.

John Niven

I've never understood why the end of a relationship - especially one involving children - has to immediately signal a descent into hatred and toxicity.

Marty Smith

It would be advantageous for children to actually go into the classroom to learn about Michigan history.

Malcolm Wallace

It would be better if they had more reading lessons, definitely. Even if the children were encouraged by some other member of the education set-up - it doesn't have to be a qualified teacher.

Brandon Sanderson

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.

Ben Mezrich

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

Ben Marcus

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

Ben Okri

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

Barbara Kingsolver

I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

Barbara Kingsolver

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

Barbara Kingsolver

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

Barbara Pym

I imagine the proverb about too many cooks spoiling the broth can be applied to writing as well as anything else. The poetical or literary broth is better cooked by one person.

Barbara Pym

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

Don Schossow

Don't know about that. I'd love to see The Senders make it to fifty years.

James Boswell

Boswell: "Pray, Sir, do you not suppose that there are fifty women in the world, with any one of whom a man may be as happy, as with any one woman in particular?" Johnson: "Ay, Sir, fifty thousand

Robert Brown

With shrieking and squeaking / In fifty different sharps and flats.

Anne Rice

Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.

Davy Jones

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

Curtis Jackson

It's Fifty, not Fiddy.

Steve Jobs

All the work I've done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm fifty.

Marie Dressler

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons

Toby Keith

I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say, 'Which of these things do I want to record?'