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  • What Teachers Make

    He says the problem with teachers is, "What's a kid going to learn from someone who decided his best option in life was to become a teacher?" He reminds the other dinner guests that it's true what they say about teachers: Those who can, do; those who can't, teach. I decide to bite my tongue instead of his and resist the temptation to remind the other dinner guests that it's also true what they say about lawyers. Because we're eating, after all, and this is polite company... Read→

  • Teacher

    Well the dawn was coming, Heard him ringing on my bell. He said, ``my names the teacher, That is what I call myself. And I have a lesson That I must impart to you. Its an old expression But I must insist its true. Jump up, look around, Find yourself some fun, No sense in sitting there hating everyone. No mans an island and his castle isnt home, The nest is for nothing when the bird has flown. .... Read→

  • Coffee Quotes

    This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder. ~Honore de Balzac, "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee" .... Read→

Ellen DeGeneres at Tulane's 2009 Commencement Speech

Posted by Increasing... Nov 9, 2009

this is pretty good stuff!

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