Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin

The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
---- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch

Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
---- Arnold Toynbee

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost

it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
---- Tenser said the Tensor

To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov