Let me tell you-no, let me quietly explain to you: the percentage of this school is no higher than that at your present school; the only difference is that this group TRIES harder, therefore it achieves more. You, as most mortals in this world do, fa...
Today that legend is inscribed on the stones that were used to build the walls of the school, and as the water falls out of the sky and over those stones, the words of the legend are carried down from the mountains and into the fields and gardens and...
I have been told by the third grade teacher that my daughter Poppet is reading at middle school level. Yet if I leave Poppet a note in block letters telling her to feed the dogs I will come home to find the dogs have been ... given a swim in the abov...
Mitch: [after seniors threaten him] Er, Mr. Payne. Sir. You know every second that you could let us out early would really increase our chances of survival. Mr. Payne, junior high school teacher: It's like our sergeant told us before one trip into th...
Oh, come on. Drama is just life with the dull bits cut out.” “Well, I’m ready for a long patch of boredom.
I can’t protect you from the stars, but I can tell you stories that may help at night when they are staring at you.
The history of literature is very far from being one of simple progress.
Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.
No room in my world for drama, and the last thing I needed was more death. This beautiful woman would bring me both.
When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'
Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.
I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.
The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
Why is it that drama always starts late? Whereas comedy always seems to have started already.
A town teeming with life. Full to overflowing. And every day, the good people counted their blessings. Every single one…
We all die one day, but jewels never fade or perish. Through our children we live. That’s how we cheat death.
The arms, legs, and torso with head were dragged away in sections as the children were captivated by the drama, zealously chewing their candies with sticky teeth.
It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.
Taking on too much of other people's drama is just a poor excuse for not taking ownership and control over your own life.
If there was a temperature at which drama boiled, they were all sitting in hot water.
If my sister were a character in a Victorian drama, she would be the snobbish rich girl with a penchant for talking shit about everyone behind their fan.
