Mark Twain Middle School

Famous quotes containing the words mark twain, mark, twain, middle and/or school:

“When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“He was the mark and glass, copy and book,
That fashioned others.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Their very imagination was dead. When you can say that of a man, he has struck bottom, I reckon; there is no lower deep for him.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.”
—David Mamet (b. 1947)

“While most of today’s jobs do not require great intelligence, they do require greater frustration tolerance, personal discipline, organization, management, and interpersonal skills than were required two decades and more ago. These are precisely the skills that many of the young people who are staying in school today, as opposed to two decades ago, lack.”
—James P. Comer (20th century)