In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.

Kevin Brooks

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Dorothy L. Sayers

We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics.

Simon Winchester

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all

Aristotle

Do one thing every day that scares you.

AV

Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

Henry David Thoreau

I would love to work with Paolo Nutini because he is so soulful and an amazing songwriter.

Birdy

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

I personally love to run outdoor fitness trails. I love the meditative value I get when out alone, challenging myself to run faster and higher.

Laurieann Gibson

Every time I say sure when I mean no, every time I smile brightly when I'm exploding with rage, every time I imagine my man's achievement is my own, I know the cheerleader never really died. I feel her shaking her ass inside me and I hear her breathless, girlish voice mutter T-E-A-M, Yea, Team.

Louise Bernikow

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

Charles Dickens