Joke Scheffers > Joke's Quotes

“Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.”
― Gordon Korman

“Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.”
― John Steinbeck

“If I cannot fly, let me sing.”
― Stephen Sondheim

“Those who wish to sing always find a song.”
― Swedish proverb

“Sing as though you're summoning the heavens; silver your voice and bare your throat.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Vishakanya's Choice

“No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.”
― Roman Payne

“Those who don't try never look foolish.”
― Stephen Schwartz, Wicked: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
― Douglas Adams

“He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Some people have lives; some people have music.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“Dear designer of questionable intent,

Please send me a photo of yourself. Please be wearing the knitted pants that you designed. It's not that I don't believe that there is anyone out there thing enough to wear horizontally stripped trousers knit from chunky wool, it's just that I would like to know whether you are deliberately cruel or whether you are the one woman these would look really great on.”
― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

“I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am.”
― Stephanie Pearl-MacPhee

“Knitting keeps me from stabbing people.”
― Jennie Breeden

“You don't knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit.”
― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, Things I Learned From Knitting