Quotes by Professors - Page 8

An elderly black man with gray hair said, "Every bottle should come with a warning: 'This bottle may cause you to lose your job. This bottle may cause you to get a divorce. This bottle may cause you to become homeless.
Akhil Sharma
Every full bottle of alcohol has a message in it, a surprise that one will not discover until one drinks it
Viet Thanh Nguyen
I cannot offer wine without the poison of the alcohol within.
Ada Palmer
In birth all things are kindred, the sounds me make universal to any species. We enter wailing of a lost world.
Thomas Maltman
We were born between Oh Yeah& Goddammit. I knew lifeBegan where I stood in the dark,Looking out into the light,& that sometimes I could seeEverything through nothing.The backyard trees breathedLike a man running from himselfAs my brothers backed awayFrom the screendoor.
Yusef Komunyakaa
A goddess of dawnscooted under a zing of barbed wireto witness your birth.
Yusef Komunyakaa
Nothing...They're from nothing,' he said. 'They came in the book...I found the book and inside were these flowers...They were in the book when I bought it... I bought it used...Because they meant something."'To someone else.' 'To someone.
Aimee Bender
One person's weed is another person's wildflower.
Susan Wittig Albert
And those characters [in a fairy tale] dwell in a moral world, whose laws are as clear as the law of gravity. That too is a great advantage of the folk tale. It is not a failure of imagination to see the sky blue. It is a failure rather to be weary of its being blue- and not to notice how blue it is. And appreciation of the subtler colors of the sky will come later. In the folk tale, good is good and evil is evil, and the former will triumph and later will fail. This is not the result of the imaginative quest. It is rather its principle and foundation. It is what will enable the child later on to understand Macbeth, or Don Quixote, or David Copperfield.
Anthony M. Esolen
Nothing in the Grimmerie on how to depose a tyrant - nothing useful... Nothing there that described why men and women could turn out so horrible. Or so wonderful - if that ever happens anymore.
Gregory Maguire
No man can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips.
Jed Rubenfeld
You can't be said to have properly established yourself in a place until you have been seen there.
Gregory Maguire
A person is not the same as a toaster.
David Walton
I introduced Nora as my wife, though that was a lie. Old people, that's what they wanted to hear. If you were married, you were mature, reliable, exactly like them, because in their day men and women didn't just live together--they made a commitment, they had children and went on cruises and built big houses on lakes and filled them with all the precious trinkets and manufactured artifacts they'd collected along the way.
T.C. Boyle
Ideas tell a lot about a person who generated them.
Eraldo Banovac
[O]ld enough to be wise yet young enough to be willing to partake in an arduous crusade.
Donald Kingsbury
After all, choosing a profession is extremely challenging – it is likely thehardest thing one has to do in the period of reaching maturity.
Eraldo Banovac
Don't be too enthusiastic when choosing a profession – think of earningfor life too.
Eraldo Banovac
You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal.
Joyce Carol Oates
My darlings! You can hardly expect an aged crone like me to mar such a lovely event. No, I shall remain here and knit shadows. Now go forth and shine bravely, and think of nothing but love.
Paul Russell
Do you know what dead skin looks like when they take off a cast?That was my life, all that dead skin. It was strange to feel like the Ari I used to be. Except that wasn’t totally true. The Ari I used to be didn’t exist anymore. And the Ari I was becoming? He didn’t exist yet.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Delusion is not just fantasy but compulsion.
Sylvia Nasar
In Nature, things are broken with a purpose—clouds break to pour rains, rivers break to water fields, fields break to yield crops, seeds break to yield plants … so if ever you feel broken, understand that you must be part of a better and more beautiful purpose...
Debashis Dey
A wise man does not give quick answers to complex questions – he observes, analyzes and contemplates.
Eraldo Banovac
Designing well-written tests still remains a challenging task. Some complex questions may lose clarity causing difficulties in providing meaningful answers. Basically, questions should be designed in such a way that each well-prepared student can easily give a correct answer.
Eraldo Banovac
Aiming to check a new test's difficulty, ask your assistants to solve the test prior to the actual exam. If the results are not satisfactory, reevaluate all ambiguous questions and correct them.
Eraldo Banovac
It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point.
Aimee Bender
Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.
Gary Shteyngart
When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking.
Gregory Maguire
After all, I was dressed in linen and so retained a certain capacity for nonchalance.
Joanna Ruocco
The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.
Gregory Maguire
He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion-‘‘I don’t, ‘ She said. ‘I have my own.
Toni Morrison
I remain exquisitely still. Anytime the eagle of another heart soars, whatever you are-mouse, toad, snake- don't move. From such great heights, it might not see you.
Scott Hutchins
I felt like I was falling in love but maybe not just with her, with something else, another world, but maybe that's always what falling in love is like.
Benjamin Markovits
I had fallen in love, even if she was still finding her way.
Randy Pausch
How often have I noticed or, indeed, listened to him? We talk, but do I actually listen, or is our conversation mainly a question of my waiting for him to stop and for it to be my turn to say something? For how many of us is that what conversation means - the setting up of our lines?
Alexander McCall Smith
Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.
David Augsburger
When everyone is famous, no one will be famous.
michael p naughton
The weakest would be put out of service rather than be allowed to compromise the whole system.
Frances McCall Rosenbluth
if people weren't sinners, every intelligence network would be out of business
David Morrell
Like a turnip such a head could be blown away very easily. For where a man was weak, a woman has unmanned him. It would be a mercy to blow such a man away.
Joyce Carol Oates
The world is filled with colours galore, each day is a colourful festivity.
Debasish Mishra
Each day has a color, a smell.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Three questions,” I said, ticking them off on my fingers as I spoke. “One: do you have a car? Two: do you have plans tonight? And three: how fast can you drive?
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
You shouldn’t ask a question until you are sure you want to hear the answer.
Eraldo Banovac
For any question – regardless of its complexity – there is a clear andsimple answer.
Eraldo Banovac
All my life, until today, I have been content to ask questions. All the while knowing that the real questions, those that concern the creator and his creation, have no answers. I'll go even farther and say that there is a level at which only the questions are eternal, the answers never are. And so, the patient that I am, more charitable, repeats: 'Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as in the answers.
Elie Wiesel
He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
Elie Wiesel
But, of course, what is up on Facebook is her edited life.
Sherry Turkle
Priests always had much attention lavished on them by their starstruck fans,those devout housewives and wealthy congregants who treated them as if they were guardians of the velvet rope blocking entrance into that ever so exclusive nightclub, Heaven.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Under stress, they seek composure above all. But they do not find equanimity.
Sherry Turkle
He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous.
Sherry Turkle
I think a person who wants too much is asking to be disappointed.... I'd like to be good at just one thing.
Alyson Hagy
...Mrs. Bostwick's face was heavy and lethargic, without any strength or delicacy, and it bore the deep marks of what must have been a habitual dissatisfaction.
John Williams
The more I see of the ‘hounoured, famed, and great,’ the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal principle within.
Karen Swallow Prior
I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory, meretricious or even callously sentimental attempts at poignancy (something about the exterior of the human face, so vast and palpable, with the eyes and the lips: it is all writ too large for me, too immediate for me.)
Martin Amis
Reading...is a full-contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources.
Thomas C. Foster
Molly stood up. You made an error! She felt like saying. A bad throw. So what? It's a baseball game. A game. Who really cares? A bad throw? In the great scheme of things? A bad throw? Of course she didn't say that. She understood that your own errors always feel tragic.
Mick Cochrane
Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
Joyce Carol Oates
So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.
Gregory Maguire