Carol Ann Tomlinson Quotes

The best educators I have met never stop asking questions. Some of them have taught for forty years and continue to be energized by new possibilities.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

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• I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Know
  • See
  • Possibility

• I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Past
  • Best
  • Forty

• As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Language
  • Philosophy
  • Lying

• Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Enemy
  • Possibility
  • Plans

• Many people are despairing of the possibility of finding love. And some of the people who are despairing the most are in their thirties and forties and looking just great.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Great
  • Looking

• Miracles begin when we consider the possibility that there might be another way.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Possibility
  • Consider
  • Miracles

• The opportunities for infinite possibility exist no matter what age we are.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Age
  • Opportunities
  • Possibility

• I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

  

  Max Lerner
  • Possibility
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist

• The possibility of endangering Nevadans will never happen under my watch. I will do everything I can to protect the safety and welfare of our citizens.

  

  John Ensign
  • Safety
  • Protect
  • Possibility

• How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesnt believe that, about other possibilities?

  

  Paul Auster
  • World
  • Believe
  • Possibility

• Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Men
  • War
  • Achieve

• To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh, ladies! how many of you have surreptitious milliners' bills? How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling?--trembling, and coaxing with smiles the husband by your side, who does not know the new velvet gown from the old one, or the new bracelet from last year's, or has any notion that the ragged-looking yellow lace scarf cost forty guineas and that Madame Bobinot is writing dunning letters every week for the money!

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Writing
  • Husband
  • Week

• as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Knows
  • Possibility
  • Prison

• The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

  

  William Shatner
  • May
  • Facts
  • Possibility

• I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Brother
  • Thousand
  • Quantity

• In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Possibility
  • Treatment

• The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Possibility
  • Infinite
  • Optimist

• There's a lot of stuff like that that American's don't know and since a lot of Americans don't have a passport, I'll get a passport for them and since a lot of Americans don't know what a war looks like thirty, forty years later and it's still doing damage.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • War
  • Looks
  • Damage

• White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Possibility
  • Canvas

• A simple but stark criterion: the number of climbers who successfully reach the summit compared to the number who die on the mountain. For Everest, the ratio turns out to be seven to one. For K2, which has the reputation of being the hardest and most dangerous of the high peaks, the ratio is a little over three to one. But for Annapurna, it’s exactly two to one. For every two climbers who get to the top, one climber dies trying.

  

  Ed Viesturs
  • Mountain
  • Dangerous
  • Reputation

• Lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Law
  • Cases
  • Broke

• When I sing, I always relive a part of my life.

  

  Vittorio Grigolo
  • Life
  • Sing

• Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.

  

  John Milton
  • Chocolate
  • Amounts
  • Biochemically

• The best educators I have met never stop asking questions. Some of them have taught for forty years and continue to be energized by new possibilities.

  

  Carol Ann Tomlinson
  • Possibility
  • Forty
  • Educator