A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.
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BILL SPEARS I have this thing about friends and secrets. Sometimes when I meet a person I like, I tell them a se... MOHSIN HAMID Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my... AL YANKOVIC I really have a desire to do a certain kind of work, but deliver me from the class who cut up their ... FRANK RICHARD STOCKTON And now you're off to Port Caynn. Watch them sailor lads. They'll have your skirts up and a babe in ... TAMORA PIERCE I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the let... JODI PICOULT What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more... BJORK I'm so glad they came to see me today and came here, because I really needed that support and it rea... SALLY ALLEYNE Lay not the blame on me, O sailor, but on the winds. By nature I am as calm and safe as the land its... 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CHARICE PEMPENGCO When you see it and it breathes and you see young people and their parents and their eyes aglow, tha... CHARLES MCAFEE It never ceases to amaze me to see the contributions student-athletes make to their communities, ...... GRANT TEAFF I loved that [they] took me into their home and taught me about their traditions and customs. KRISTI JOHNSON After years of self deprecating behavior, I’ve never learned how to properly take a compliment. A ... BRYNNA GABRIELSON People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me s... RAFAEL DOS ANJOS These people don't go to clubs anymore. But they don't have an outlet for it. They come to my class,... GREG TALBOTT There's only so much we can do or lift, so I take them to these whenever I can. This isn't a competi... JOE BIENASZ They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars -- on stars where no human race is. I hav... 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Most perfect dies. MARIA BROOKS If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno... MARIA MONTESSORI The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within th... MARIA MONTESSORI The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of anim... MARIA MONTESSORI I suppose I could admire all these slow Seattle drivers for their safety-mindedness, consideration f... MARIA SEMPLE I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil eith... MARIA CALLAS Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man a... MARIA MONTESSORI I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the s... MARIA MONK I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm ... MARIA SEMPLE The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me. MARIA MONK I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has toug... MARIA SHRIVER I do remember when it occurred to me the first time, when I got the idea of painting the way I feel ... MARIA LASSNIG If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it... MARIA BARTIROMO The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomen... MARIA MONTESSORI All the movements of our body are not merely those dictated by impulse or weariness; they are the co... MARIA MONTESSORI My dad has some depressive issues, and he's really tough on himself. So sometimes he can say thi... MARIA BAMFORD Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest th... MARIA BARTIROMO To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator. MARIA MONTESSORI If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves. MARIA EDGEWORTH An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in m... MARIA CALLAS "Niagara! wonder of this western world,
And half the world beside! hail, beauteous queen
Of ... MARIA BROOKS We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. MARIA MONTESSORI The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The tea... MARIA MONTESSORI The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and ev... MARIA MONTESSORI The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years... MARIA MONTESSORI Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. MARIA MONTESSORI I keep pointing at the child; they keep staring at my finger. MARIA MONTESSORI Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when h... MARIA MONTESSORI Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by. MARIA SCHELL My biggest dream since I was a kid was to be the woman sneaking on the pirate ship dressed like a ma... MARIA BELLO Fragrant o'er all the western groves
The tall magnolia towers unshaded. MARIA BROOKS I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down. MARIA CALLAS I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity. MARIA CALLAS I only have nightmares
because my dreams
have come true. MARIA BARRAGAN My future is just a mirage. The more I expect from it, it just turns out to be mere reflections. MARIA K It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I h... MARIA MONTESSORI I would never want to model as my career, but fashion is my hobby. When you love what you're wea... MARIA VALVERDE My mom always does this thing where, the closer I get to home, the more she calls. 'Hey, listen,... MARIA BAMFORD Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous... MARIA MONTESSORI Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're ... MARIA SHRIVER I'm not an extroverted person, nor am I hyper-confident in my point of view. I just don't ha... MARIA BAMFORD I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have acces... MARIA CANTWELL The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should ... MARIA CANTWELL The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is ... MARIA MONTESSORI You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a... MARIA CALLAS While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has be... MARIA BARTIROMO It's unhealthy to live a life with regrets. MARIA BARRAGAN When you're an immigrant, you just want a paycheck. MARIA MARTINEZ I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy... MARIA SHARAPOVA I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a mor... MARIA BAMFORD In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more fr... MARIA SEMPLE The language of the ordinance implies that we're in the business of prostitution rather than massage... MARIA ROSSI I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who a... MARIA SHRIVER I’m not the next anyone, I’m the first Maria Sharapova MARIA SHARAPOVA I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long t... MARIA SEMPLE Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obs... MARIA MONTESSORI Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. MARIA CALLAS When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply a... MARIA SEMPLE Following intuition allows decision and action to be made in the same instant. MARIA ERVING