"I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour."

-- Nigel Rees

#School Quotes #Class Quotes #Play Quotes

“Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.”
“Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledge-desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend. [p. 138]”
“What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.”
“It is my PRIDE, my damned, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19 - 20th of my Composition is Pride. I must either live a Slave, a Servant; to have no Will of my own, no Sentiments of my own which I may freely declare as such; --or DIE --perplexing alternative!”
“Shall I project a world?”
“I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.”

Source : Song: Children Of The World, Album: House of Love, 1994
“The emancipation of the scholars and scientists from philosophy is according to [Nietzsche] only a part of the democratic movement, i.e. of the emancipation of the low from subordination to the high. ... The plebeian character of the contemporary scholar or scientist is due to the fact that he has no reverence for himself.”
“You guys line up alphabetically by height.”

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