January 2012
41 posts
“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”
– Anais Nin
“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
“Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation … the other eight are...”
– Henry Miller
“She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose,...”
– Lorrie Moore
“Becoming a teacher isn’t as simple as going to college and taking the right...”
– Paula White in Voice Matters-Just Ask My Kindergarteners
“Sadly, children’s passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world...”
– bell hooks
“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the...”
– Aldous Huxley
“To find oneself jolted to an extreme, lit by the unreal, with, in a corner of...”
– Antonin Artaud, translated from the French by Mary Ann Caws and Patricia Terry
“To find oneself jolted to an extreme, lit by the unreal, with, in a corner of...”
– Antonin Artaud, translated from the French by Mary Ann Caws and Patricia Terry
“Don’t cry over anything that can’t cry over you”
– Apartment Therapy
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that the past is real.”
– Cormac McCarthy
“I think things are beautiful when you don’t plan them, and you don’t have...”
– Alison Mosshart
“I said I love you and didn’t mean love. I meant Please don’t leave me. I meant...”
– The Fortunes of Indigo Skye, Deb Caletti
“Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in...”
– David Byrne
“I fell in love with him, and he fell in love with my adoration of him.”
– The Secret Life of Prince Charming, Deb Caletti
“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.”
– The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
“His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
“I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a...”
– Joanne Harris
“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into...”
– Albert Schweitzer
“To study is to uncover; it is to gain a more exact comprehension of an object;...”
– Paulo Freire from Teachers as Cultural Workers
“Race to the Top is all about making education even more corporate, with teachers...”
– John Spencer’s comment on the article “White Trash” on the Cooperative Catalyst
“What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than...”
– The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
“Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and...”
– Pearl Cleage
“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies,...”
– Patricia Highsmith
“If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow”
– John Dewey
“I don’t want to die
without any scars.”
– Chuck Palahniuk
December 2011
25 posts
“..’I love you.’ For a start, we’d better put these words on a high shelf; in a...”
– Julian Barnes (A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters)
“When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.”
– Rumi
“I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind...”
– Lisa Kleypas (Tempt Me at Twilight)
“Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how...”
– Joseph Gordon-Levitt