"No judge writes on a wholly clean slate."

-- Felix Frankfurter

#Writing Quotes #Judging Quotes #Clean Slate Quotes

“You can't go to the bathroom alone... you might not come back. Cause no girl's ever been to the bathroom alone and survived. It's true. The last woman that attempted it, it was 1937 and her name was Amelia Earhart.”
“I'm so boy-crazy. It's like I don't even know what's wrong with me. I love boys.”
“A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception.”
“The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.”
“We understand that athletes aren't necessarily role models, but we at least expect them to abide by the basic laws of the state.”
“If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.”
“Dreams without goals, are just dreams and they ultimately fuel disappointment.”
“It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little . . . We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work . . . in order to free their hold.”

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