#lip

One's character is set at an early age, son. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life." He was quiet for a minute then dropped the curtain and said, "I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back. ↗

— Wendelin Van Draanen

#character #chet #flipped #age

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools. My main concern is that an over-emphasis on testing and league tables has led to a lack of time and freedom for a true, imaginative and humane engagement with literature. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#education-system #phillip-pullman #education

Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#conduct #democracy #desire #ever #feel

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#beautiful #full #holes #memory #most

A bird named Vlad the Impaler, who spent the bulk of his life hissing and looking at himself in a little mirror hanging[...] in the iron cage, a mirror so dull and cloudy with Vlad the Impaler’s bird-spit that Vlad the Impaler could not possibly have seen anything more than a vague yellowish blob behind a pane of mist[...] A bird that not infrequently literally bit the hand that fed it, before returning to dance in front of its own shapeless reflection, straining and contorting always for a better view of itself. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#life

Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#achieve #any #business #flip #going

I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode. ↗

— Martin Gore

#into #lead #lives #mode #rock

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip. ↗

— Robert Greene

#determine #dispose #fall #gods #lip

I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do. ↗

— Julie Harris

#because #film #i #liked #lovely

Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it. ↗

— Lou Harrison

#days #flipped #i #just #much