"Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech."

“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.”

Source : Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press

“in much knowledge there is also much grief.”

“I would like to do some musicals.”

“I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.”

“Well, today, we are in the struggle brought on to us by the terrorists of Islam. It is a war that we did not choose. It was a war that was declared against us as Americans, against our people, against our Constitution.”

“...Do you see things in black and white, or are there shades of gray for you?" "I hope there's gray...Black and white make things easier, but only if you don't want to think.”

“Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.”

Source : Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1656, Simon and Schuster

“The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.”