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HAINSTOCK, Elizabeth
ELIZABETH G. HAINSTOCK – American author & educator – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE
ZENO of Citium
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.” ~Zeno of Citium, Greek philosopher Cited by Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers (3rd century) trans. Robert Drew (R.D.) Hicks, Book VII, chapter 1, no. 26, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972 [first published 1925]; online via Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, www.perseus.tufts.edu Context Extended excerpt [Cited by Diogenes Laërtius, an ancient historian of Greek philosophy & philosophers. None of Zeno’s work survived to the modern era.]: “When he was asked why he, though so austere, relaxed at a drinking-party, he said, “Lupins too are bitter, but when they are soaked become sweet.” Hecato too in the second book
EDMUNDSON, Mark
CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play – work you do so easily that it restores you as you go.” ~Mark Edmundson, American author & educator Why Teach? In Defense of a Real Education (2013) New York, NY: Bloomsbury, p. 66 Context Extended excerpt [Non-fiction.]: “Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play – work you do so easily that it restores you as you go. Randall Jarrell once said that if he were a rich man, he would pay money to teach poetry to students. (I would, too, for what
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EBERT, Roger
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.” ~Roger Ebert, American journalist & film critic From Ebert's response to the question “In facing your own mortality, what final message would you leave for future generations?” in “11th Hour “Roger Ebert” (1994) Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Denver, CO; The 11th Hour, Samuel A. Safarian & KBDI-TV, online via Colorado Public Television, video.cpt12.org Context Extended excerpt: [Address to live & television audience. Ebert is discussing the greater need for empathy. Transcript via Repeat Right.]: “Art, is of course, many things but I believe its most important role is to give form to
EASTMAN, Max
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.” ~Max Eastman, American author & editor Enjoyment of Laughter (1936) New York: Simon & Schuster, 1936, 8th printing, p. 36; online via Open Library [free subscription service] openlibrary.org Context Extended excerpt [Eastman, sharing his ‘amateur opinion’ that ‘apes have a rudimentary sense of humor.']: “He has at least enough feeling for a playful trick to understand that he has been teased and not attacked. It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.” (pp. 36-37) Source Link Source
De LINT, Charles
CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.” ~Charles de Lint, Canadian author & musician The Onion Girl (2001) New York: Tom Doherty Associates, p. 124 Context Extended excerpt: “The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter – here ink is smeared on a page, there lies an old photography with a chewed corner, elsewhere still, a nest has been made of old newspapers, headlines running one into the other to make strange declarations. There is no order to what we recall, the wheel of time follows no straight line as it turns in our heads.
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CARY, Lorene
CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “I had not loved enough. I’d been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.” ~Lorene Cary, American author Black Ice (1991) New York: First Vintage Books, 1992 edition, p. 218 Context Extended excerpt: [Memoir] “I had not loved enough. I’d been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta. I had not loved enough. The greedy girl inside me clutched at the little white box with its red ribbons. She was heartbreaking to look upon, a spoiled child at a party grabbing up expensive gifts, no
RAND, Ayn
AYN RAND – Russian-American author, philosopher & screenwriter – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE