"If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book."

-- Beverly Cleary

#Teacher Quotes #Book Quotes #Reading Quotes

“An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.”
“A new sickness invaded Jerry, the sickness of knowing what he had become, another animal, another beast, another violent person in a violent world, inflicting damage, not disturbing the universe but damaging it.”

Source : Robert Cormier (2013). “The Chocolate War”, p.254, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.”
“There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman who's sort of losing it in a room.”
“The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted 'free'-will.”

Source : Augustus Toplady (1825). “The works of Augustus M. Toplady”, p.283
“Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.”
“There are days-depression is a part of it-when if all you do is get dressed, take a shower and put on your makeup, then it is a good day. Your goals have to be much lower. But if you take one tiny little step, then you can take another and another.”
“The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark..”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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