Karolyn Grimes quotes

  • That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.

  • Hell was created for the devil and his angels. If you go, you are an intruder.

  • I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

  • Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. . . . Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense." --Sam Seaborne, West Wing

  • But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.

  • Vee lowered her lashes and smiled wickedly. "This class isn't going to teach me anything I don't already know." "Vee? As in virgin?" "Not so loud." She winked just as the bell rang, sending us both to our seats, which were side by side at our shared table.

  • I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

  • Your voices break and falter in the darkness, Break, falter, and are still.

  • The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

  • What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography.

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