"Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life."

-- Wavy Gravy

#Laughter Quotes #Pressure Quotes #Valve Quotes

“The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.”

Source : Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”
“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think”
“Everyone has a fantasy of what they want their band to sound like. However, because I knew nothing about making music, I was unable to describe what I wanted properly.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Yeah, I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?”

Source : Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.361, A&C Black
“From biscuit to brides, if there is anything their children really want, parents have a problem.”
“The lamp sizzled as it burned. It made everything seem close and safe, a little family circle they all knew and trusted. Outside this circle lay everything that was strange and frightening, and the darkness seemed to reach higher and higher and further and further away, right to the end of the world.”
“I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.”

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