Cheryl > Cheryl's Quotes

“School™ is not so bad now, not like back when my grandparents were kids, when the schools were run by the government, which sounds completely like, Nazi, to have the government running the schools? Back then, it was big boring, and all the kids were meg null, because they didn’t learn anything useful, it was all like, da da da da, this happened in fourteen ninety-two, da da da da, when you mix like, chalk and water, it makes nitroglycerin, and that kind of shit? And nothing was useful?”
― M.T. Anderson, Feed

“When no one was going to pay for the public schools anymore and they were all like filled with guns and drugs and English teachers who were really pimps and stuff, some of the big media congloms got together and gave all this money and bought the schools so that all of them could have computers and pizza for lunch and stuff, which they gave for free, and now we do stuff in classes about how to work technology and how to find bargains and what’s the best way to get a job and how to decorate our bedroom.”
― M.T. Anderson, Feed

“maybe it’s time to just scrap the word “racist.” Find something new. Like Racial Disorder Syndrome. And we could have different categories for sufferers of this syndrome: mild, medium, and acute. CHAPTER 35 Ifemelu woke up one night to go to the bathroom, and heard Blaine in the living room, talking on the phone, his tone gentle and solacing.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“Maybe it’s time to just scrap the word “racist.” Find something new. Like Racial Disorder Syndrome. And we could have different categories for sufferers of this syndrome: mild, medium, and acute.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“The Obama administration, strong on support for education as a general rule and long on rhetoric about the importance of libraries, has failed when it comes to championing school libraries.”
― John Palfrey, BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google

“On some level, my life has been wasted on me. After all, if I can’t remember it, who can?”
― Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections

“To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.”
― Ogden Nash