Quotes of: Wright-brothers Keyword

I was a world champion on the trampoline at an international level, and gymnastics competitor.

Dan Millman

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.

David McCullough

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

David McCullough

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Jack Canfield

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

James Anthony Froude

The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.

Jean Giraud

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

John Taylor Gatto

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

John Taylor Gatto

It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

John Lewis Gaddis

All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

John Hodgman

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

John Hodgman

Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.

John Twelve Hawks

I'm a poster child for Luddites. It was a challenge for me to open myself up the tech world.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

Jonathan Kozol

Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.

Jonathan Kozol

Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

Jonathan Kozol

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

Jonathan Kozol

Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

Jacques Lacan

'Home And Away' was my first big break. I was already a fan of the show, so to suddenly be on it was really good.

Christopher Egan

Ill-fitted T-shirts stretched over a gut are my pet hate. And if the colour's faded - ugh.

Joanne Froggatt

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Joseph Wood Krutch