Quotes By Author: chris colfer

“I always laugh at the term ‘Cinderella story’, because, if you ask me, it doesn’t matter what life you’re living, life never has a solution. No matter how hard the struggles are that you leave behind, new struggles always take their place.”

“My grandpa had a saying before he died: You can hope in one hand, shit in the other, and see which is filled first.”

“Right now, we’re living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!”

“When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out”

“What grinds me the most is we’re sending kids out into the world who don’t know how to balance a checkbook, don’t know how to apply for a loan, don’t even know how to properly fill out a job application, but because they know the quadratic formula we consider them prepared for the world`With that said, I’ll admit even I can see how looking at the equation x -3 = 19 and knowing x =22 can be useful. I’ll even say knowing x =7 and y= 8 in a problem like 9x – 6y= 15 can be helpful. But seriously, do we all need to know how to simplify (x-3)(x-3i)??And the joke is, no one can continue their education unless they do. A student living in California cannot get into a four-year college unless they pass Algebra 2 in high school. A future psychologist can’t become a psychologist, a future lawyer can’t become a lawyer, and I can’t become a journalist unless each of us has a basic understanding of engineering.Of course, engineers and scientists use this shit all the time, and I applaud them! But they don’t take years of theater arts appreciation courses, because a scientist or an engineer doesn’t need to know that ‘The Phantom of the Opoera’ was the longest-running Broadway musical of all time.Get my point?”

“High School. Society’s bright idea to put all their aggressive, naive youth into one environment to torment and emotionally scar each other for life.”

“You’ve got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you’re not.”

“A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.”

“You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.”