Quotes about american-writer
american-writer per pupil schools
Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools. Jonathan Kozol
american-writer deeply high people schools segregated textbooks
I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.
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It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects. Joyce Maynard
american-writer holds knowledge life worse
For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer. Jean Stafford
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The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.
american-writer career changing intended landscapes nature photograph wound
My career was 100% different from what I intended to do. I thought I'd photograph nature and landscapes but I wound up photographing the changing of the times.
american-writer business merely
Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business. Michael Gerber
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It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.
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Little old ladies of both sexes. Why do I let them bother me? John O'Hara
american-writer break performance recycled shut
We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.
american-writer labor laying manual
Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe. John Gregory
american-writer enjoy pleased quality time
Rush has done some top-notch quality work, and we're very, very pleased with them. We really enjoy working with them. They are on time and on budget, which makes me happy. Mark Russell
american-writer few love marriage seeing
After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him. Helen Rowland
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May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.
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Dennis Conner is Pete Rose in deck shoes.
american-writer character complain control fool self takes understanding
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. Dale Carnegie
american-writer chance iii locked psycho survive
Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there's no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you've got it, the law can keep you locked up because there's no chance for cure. Joseph Stefano
american-writer blacks conscious hideous oppression parody response sixties
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. David Foster Wallace
american-writer buzz charlatans few heard mention people previous word
There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
american-writer emotional intervene nobody parents people relationships
The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that. Madalyn Murray O'Hair
american-writer home
For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.
american-writer curtain quality time
Every time a curtain rises, so does the quality of our lives. Bryan Davis
american-writer build cliff jump wings
First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury
american-writer enjoyment ongoing
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. Paul Goodman
american-writer united
Bill, The United States is not a company. It is a country. Stewart Alsop
american-writer believes gates logical particular reduced sequence technology ultimate
Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.
american-writer came hanging precise silence
A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.
american-writer neglected rhetoric simply
That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen. Michael Harrington
american-writer change characters facing grow seem
What is interesting to me is how the characters respond, how they change and grow by facing what often seem overwhelming difficulties. Terry Brooks
american-writer dare grown
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older. Catherine Drinker Bowen
american-writer hear quite realized
I realized there was something I didn't quite like in myself that I didn't want to hear about.
american-writer awake finish habit home lie man night saying sleep thinking
Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.
american-writer fifty homesick people percent
Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. John Cheever