It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

For love was a kind of folly, a losing game. The greatest of all Wastes of Time. But then, that depended on what you thought time was for.

Cassandra Golds

They pick all of us out, and then they decide, they computerize, decide if they like it or don't like it, and then they go home, and then they come back again because they're not sure what they saw.

Alice Cooper

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

Gloria Swanson

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

John W. Gardner

We'll start to forget a place once we left it

Charles Dickens

Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity -- a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.

David Lehman

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Groucho Marx

Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.

Paulo Coelho

A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.

Stephen Richards

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

Joan Collins