I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That's what I want to do.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Maria Montessori

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Winston Churchill

Piety is not an end but a means to attain... the highest degree of culture. This is why... those who parade piety as a purpose and an aim mostly turn into hypocrites.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Thine] face is not worth sunburning.

William Shakespeare

A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.

Eoin Colfer

People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got.

Patton Oswalt

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.

Mark Twain

Our God is Greater, Our God is Stronger, God, you are Higher than any other, Our God is Healer, Awesome in Power, Our God,Our God.

Chris Tomlin

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

Derek Jarman

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

Major Owens

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

Doug Horton

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Francis Bacon