Bel Kaufman Quotes
Extraordinary—that Willowdale Academy and Calvin Coolidge High School should both be institutions of learning! The contrast is stunning. I had a leisurely tea with the Chairman of the English Department. I saw several faculty members sitting around in offices and lounges, sipping tea, reading, smoking. Through the large casement windows bare trees rubbed cozy branches. (One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them"!) Old leather chairs, book-lined walls, air of cultivated casualness, sound of well-bred laughter.
Bel Kaufman
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If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
Najib Razak
Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
Ira Glass
Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
Kailash Satyarthi
The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
Walter Gropius
Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
Camille Paglia
The public has been told repeatedly that terrorism is 'evil,' which it undoubtedly is, and that 'evildoers' are responsible for it, which doubtless they are. But beyond these justifiable condemnations, there is a historical void.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
I'm not bleaching my skin, and if I was bleaching my skin and I felt like saying so, I would, but for the record, I am not.
Tamar Braxton
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
Orison Swett Marden
To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
Nawal El Saadawi
Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.
Nadine Gordimer
Ch. 9 (pp. 298-9)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.
Andy Goldsworthy
The meaning of religious truth is hope.
Andrei Tarkovsky
My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn't, I'm going to get your vote next time.
Barack Obama
I'm endlessly putting myself on tapes for things over in America! I'm always sitting at home, learning lines, sending stuff to America.
Arthur Darvill
That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.
F. E. Adcock
There is a danger for Britain as we perceive ourselves, or as we are - less wealthy, facing economic austerity - that we essentially draw back. I think there is a recoil in parts of the country, and in parts of the government actually, from the multilateral system, and I think that's dangerous and wrong.
David Miliband
Extraordinary—that Willowdale Academy and Calvin Coolidge High School should both be institutions of learning! The contrast is stunning. I had a leisurely tea with the Chairman of the English Department. I saw several faculty members sitting around in offices and lounges, sipping tea, reading, smoking. Through the large casement windows bare trees rubbed cozy branches. (One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them"!) Old leather chairs, book-lined walls, air of cultivated casualness, sound of well-bred laughter.
Bel Kaufman
