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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
---- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison

it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
---- Tenser said the Tensor

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar

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 Friday November 30 2007

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The rating module is now working! Feel free to rate entries on this blog using the link at the bottom of each entry. Will do a little formatting work on it after I finish the semester in two weeks.

below originally posted October 7
I’m just added a rating module to this site. You can now vote on how much you like the entry. Member and visitor votes are calculated seperately as well as an overall total provided.
update
rating module is a little wonked. A bunch of errors come up on voting. Hopefully this gets fixed soon.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Friday Nov 30, 2007 at 08:28 PM
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