"A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain."
Mildred Witte Stouven
Monday, 15 October 2012
1,200 to 1,400 degrees Celsius
"A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain."
Mildred Witte Stouven
Friday, 12 October 2012
Rhetorical un-question
"What is the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on."
Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Options for the truth
"Between truth and the search for truth, I opt for the second."
Bernard Berenson, art historian (1865-1959)
Sunday, 7 October 2012
Saturday, 6 October 2012
What we teachers secretly hope for
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
Henry Adams, historian and teacher (1838-1918)
Friday, 5 October 2012
Thursday, 4 October 2012
Point de fuite
"In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away."
T.S. Eliot, poet (1888-1965)
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