"I handed the test in five minutes before the end of the day. Mrs. Baker took it calmly, then reached into her bottom drawer for an enormous red pen with a wide felt tip. "Stand here and we'll see how you've done," she said, which is sort of like a dentist handing you a mirror and saying, "Sit here and watch while I drill a hole in your tooth."

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Source : Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Gary D. Schmidt

#Mirrors Quotes #The End Of The Day Quotes #Bakers Quotes

“Do you believe your heart to be, indeed, so hardened, that you can look without emotion on the suffering, to which you would condemn me?”

Source : Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.802, Delphi Classics
“Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary throughout life is a sure reflection of intellectual progress.”

Source : Bergen Evans (1963). “The word-a-day vocabulary builder”, Ballantine Books
“I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have.”
“I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein. And when the president made the decision, I supported him, and I support the fact that we did disarm him.”
“I've always been in a rebel.”
“I used to think that a guy telling me I'm "not like other girls" was a compliment and I've now flipped to seeing that for the back-handed compliment that it is.”
“Grizzly bears eat people without the benefit of music.”
“Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.”

Source : William George Jordan (2017). “The Majesty of Calmness - Individual Problems and Possibilities”, p.11, Read Books Ltd

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