"Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire."

-- William Butler Yeats

#Teaching Quotes #Fire Quotes #Justice Quotes

“Not in the sense of investigators saying that she [Lula] was personally enriched as a result of the scandal, but there are new reports emerging this week claiming that she may have had a hand in trying to derail the investigations. She was chairwoman of the board for years, so she has come under a good deal of criticism over not having identified the wrongdoing at that time.”
“The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.”
“I always talk about my characters like they're real people.”
“The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.”
“Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.”
“I must admit that when I chose the name, "vitamine," I was well aware that these substances might later prove not to be of an amine nature. However, it was necessary for me to choose a name that would sound well and serve as a catchword, since I had already at that time no doubt about the importance and the future popularity of the new field.”

Source : Casimir Funk (1922). “The Vitamines”
“My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.”
“It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.”

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