S.L. Ross Quotes

The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board.

Every individual human being born on this earth has the capacity to become a unique and special person, unlike any who has ever existed before or ever will exist again.

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man.

Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.

I would assume most people hate my character. But I'm hoping that I'm the character you love to hate.

It really bothers me when some people say that all cops are racist. Of course that's not true. Most of you are just [expletive] to everybody.

I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.

I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.

If you can't be funny, be interesting.

I just appreciate still having the longevity that I've had in my career.

I know that my fans want to know who I'm sleeping with, but it's really none of their business.

Never get in the middle of someone else's quicksand.

I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction.

Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well.

The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

If, like Jacob, you trust God in little things, He may answer you by great things.

Happy Days, which we did for 11 years, we did with three cameras in front of a live audience. Very special. We had a party every Friday night. The boys, Ron, Henry, they grew up on that show.

This moment is your portal to the future. Use it wisely!

It's not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism.

Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.

Happy Days was a wonderful, wonderful experience and I would not have traded it for the world.

Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.

This entire process of stellar evolution is by natural process alone. We do not have to invoke Divine intervention at any stage in the history of the life-cycle of the stars that we observe.

I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.

I was spoiled when I worked in the magazine world. Fashion closets are heaven and I seem to model my organization after a fashion closet.

There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate.

Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent?

One of the things I've realized is how portable God is. No really, He's everywhere!

I've always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

Parents are much more likely to be attuned to what they don't like than they are to the expectations that the kid is having difficulty meeting.

I have some favorites. I love Chaplin; I mean I really love Chaplin. I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.

Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived.

People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.

I do think that evangelicals in general need to think seriously about how you pass on your faith across generations and over the long haul.

Grief will happen either as an open healing wound or a closed festering wound, either honestly or dishonestly, either appropriately or inappropriately. But emotions will be expressed.

It almost seems that if you can describe it, you can change it.

Paul Brunton's Notebooks are a veritable treasure-trove of philosophic-spiritual wisdom.

If you are ready for mystical experiences, you have them.

I always get very fit if I'm going away filming for two months in Afghanistan or wherever.

One bit in or out of focus makes the difference between our bodies being ourselves and our being part of a group. I want to melt the idea of specificity and blend individuality into the crowd.

A community of people, that's the really what art school is.

Even though I had a good income from my lectures, no one would give me a loan. The insanity almost drove me to sympathize with the feminist movement.

The only thing I expect out of lawyers is that they be back in their coffins by sunup.

I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it our ourselves.

We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff.