Famous Quotes & Sayings

Timothy Noah

Romney has become reluctant to say that human activity causes global warming, and even in his greener days he was always somewhat cagey about which remedies he'd support.

Lonnie Soloff

We're shooting for major league game activity later this month.

Julie Gerberding

We're seeing very sporadic activity in seven states, and local activity in one state.

Richard Rogers

So I think that, yes, anything that makes it more palatable and easier to understand, such as a Virtual Centre, has to be seen as a primary activity within the educational and information global state.

Ken Hitchcock

Let's see how he looks when he comes back over here. This is a different game over here. Angles are different and there's a tremendous amount of activity around the goal here; a lot more than there is in the Olympics. The shot totals are a lot higher here and the quality of shots is a lot higher in the NHL. Let's see how he plays when he comes back here and let's see how his energy is.

Jeff Davis

Losses will be real, but the flip side is there will be huge building activity for years.

Mark Vitner

Lots of the activity that had been taking place in New Orleans is now taking place in Houston or Dallas or Atlanta, Birmingham or Baton Rouge,

Michael Fishbin

Last year saw a doubling of financing activity for hotel real estate in the commercial mortgage-backed securities sector and we see another strong year ahead.

Steven Wood

Less refinancing activity should dampen consumer spending -- although that has not yet occurred.

David Hood

If the schooling system does not rapidly close the gap between what it does, and what it should do in response to the demands of the 21st century, it will simply become irrelevant.

David Hood

Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.

David Hume

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

David Hume

The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.

Alan Dershowitz

Question authority; but, raise your hand first.

Alan Dershowitz

I learn from experience.

Charles Kettering

you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

Kylie Minogue

There's no shortcut to learning a craft; you just have to put the years in.

Audre Lorde

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Robert H. Connelly

We're seeing the legislative process go down in this Senate.

Scott Graham

The process is for what you want to see, not what you don't want to see.

Tie Domi

The process has to be conducted a little more properly.

George Fernandes

The process has begun. This will take about one-and-a-half months. We are trying to do it faster.

Ajay Prasad

The process will go on unless we are told otherwise.

Matthew Paull

The process of restructuring and seeking qualification would be long and arduous,

Ethan Diamond

The process of going through the inbox is much, much faster.

Tom Mitchell

The process is working the way it is supposed to work,

J. Wince

He was a very stern man, referred to me as his boy. I was his star pupil and he was my mentor.

Paul Frost

What do you think of God," the teacher asked. After a pause, the young pupil replied, "He's not a think, he's a feel";

Paul Cezanne

I am a pupil of Pissarro.

Hudson Stuck

A pupil is a great resource.

David Icke

Interestingly, the British government announced a few weeks ago that they were going to introduce 500 educational targets for preschool children. And teachers complained that "when are the children going to have time to play?" Well, they're not supposed to play, because play is a right-brain, ad-lib, creative pursuit. The idiot politicians who are introducing it don't understand this, but the shadow-people from which it is generated certainly do. They want to stimulate the left brain as early as possible.

David Hume

Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. Happily, this pitch it seldom attains. But what a Tully or a Demosthenes could scarcely effect over a Roman or Athenian audience, every Capuchin, every itinerant or stationary teacher can perform over the generality of mankind, and in a higher degree, by touching such gross and vulgar passions.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I propose that a teacher's pay be tied to merit, not tenure. And I propose that a teacher's employment be tied to performance, not just showing up.

Ben Vereen

I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, 'Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.' So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it's a whole different market - social media is so important.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

Barry Commoner

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.

Arnaz Battle

In middle school, I had this one teacher who would kick me out all the time. He just didn't like me. I could ask a person next to me to borrow a pencil, and he'd kick me out of class. Besides that, I've never been in trouble.

Arnaz Battle

I've never been in trouble. I've never had detention or anything. I wasn't a teacher's pet though either.

Arne Duncan

When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.

Billy Bob Thornton

I don't know how to type so I handwrite everything.

Kevin Rahm

The industry has a very short memory of what's possible, and they like to typecast you.

Lykke Li

The first thing you do when you get off tour is let off some steam and, you know, have some type of big breakdown.

Lykke Li

I'll always be in some type of turmoil. So what I've tried to do is just surrender to that.

David Sedaris

My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working on a typewriter and I whited out a line, often I would choose a word to go in the space just because it fit. Now I don't have to do that.

Charles Kuralt

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

Bobbi Brown

Im not really Type A, but A minus.

Daniel Handler

Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.

Craig Ferguson

In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.