Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendelin Van Draanen

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.

Virginia Postrel

Fit experts envision a future in which you'd carry your body scan in your cell phone or on a thumb drive, using the data to order clothes online or find them in stores. But who's going to pay for all those scanners, which cost about $35,000 each, and the staff to run them?

Billy Graham

While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.

Constance Wu

I feel like I could carry a movie or a show, and I'll mess up here and there, and I'll learn from those things.

Jack Anderson

The police chief works directly for the city manager, who works for the city council, so there is a direct line between city council goals for public safety and the law enforcement and safety professionals who carry out those goals,

Jorge Belevan

The pilot's skill made it possible to carry out an emergency landing and save lives.

Art Hogan

The overall passion for Internet stocks is carrying over to the index itself,

Boris Yeltsin

The past two years in Russia's life have been full of stormy political events, great laborious work on reforming the economy, ... Soon there were disappointments, too, and unfulfilled hopes. But we've never lost the conviction in the necessity of the transformations we're carrying out.

Bridget Kelly

I hate bags. I never carry a bag. I am terrified of bags. I don't want to have to be responsible for that many things at one time.

Wendy Kopp

Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.

Wendy Kopp

People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.

Wendy Kopp

Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.

Ezra Taft Benson

Efficient spending and saving will give the family more security, more opportunities, more education, and a higher standard of living.

Bill Harris

The political parties don't fight over whether education is important. They know it is.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

Wole Soyinka

Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.

William Godwin

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

Charlie Trotter

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

David Carradine

I studied music formally. I was probably less formal about my study of acting than anything.

Nimrat Kaur

I love to sing. I never had any formal training. My mother is a singer, and I picked up listening to her.

Lawrence Summers

We are not contemplating formal requests from any other country,

Nina Garcia

Don't be afraid to mix things up by pairing a military-style jacket with a velvet skirt, vintage with modern, off-the-rack with couture, formal with casual.

Bill Nye

You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight tie with a tuxedo.

Marlene Walz

There are a variety of ways of assessing kids' skills that aren't necessarily a formal assessment.

Clay Lowery

Upon receipt of the formal filing, CFIUS will move promptly to initiate the review process and fulfill D.P. World's request for a 45-day investigation.

Trent Reznor

When Twitter made its way to my radar I looked at it as a curiosity, then started experimenting. I approached that as a place to be less formal and more off-the-cuff, honest and 'human.'

Michael McDermott

We feel that his due-process rights were violated. He was never given a formal hearing, he was never given a right to refute anything.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

will.i.am

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

Alberto Martinez

The overriding theme of these numbers is that these guys are pretty much tied, and will likely stay that way for a long time.

Brian Bell

The guys in the Twins understand that the better Weezer does, the more people will probably care about us.

John Jay

We played well enough to win. I though our guys played well. We just never quite got ahead.

Jason Spezza

We played well. Different guys are stepping up.

Duane Joubert

We played well as a team. That's what matters. There's not going to be one player for Kountze. There's going to be five, six, seven guys who are all playing a role.

Tony Banks

We play teams in 3A or 5A, and we play with them. That shows how hard these guys work, and we're really proud of them.

Chris Duhon

We pretty much have the same guys back, doing the same things.

Tim Scott

I'm going to be a Republican who happens to be black - who will talk about issues that I'm passionate about.

Vivienne Westwood

I'm very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

Cam Newton

What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain't going to happen. That's the type of person that I am. I'm that lion.

Arnold Palmer

My problem happens to be near-sightedness - inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.

S. Hughes

We are just struggling scoring runs. We are just not getting whole lot of hits. That happens sometimes. You just hope it doesn't happen to long.

Carl Schoedel

We recognize the next improvement that happens out there is going to be a big-dollar one. That's why we need a plan.

Anna Netrebko

I know what I'm missing. I know what I have to work on. Coloratura. And I sing sharp sometimes. It happens when I'm nervous.

Stella McCartney

If you try to create something people enjoy, and it happens to be made in a responsible way, then that's when you can really strike an incredible balance.

Antonio Daniels

Tim and the Spurs are going to the Virgin Islands. Tim said he had nothing to do with it. Yeah right, he just happens to be from the islands. But hey, Richmond will be just fine. We're there to work anyway.

Neelie Kroes

We have had informal complaints, and we are using our time now to look at them. We're not going to wait and do nothing.

Joseph Wise

Through informal discussions two or three months ago, I thought it was premature with all the work I was doing in Christina and it didn't feel right,

Tom Kelly

There have been high-level, informal discussions over the last week, face-to-face discussions.

John Calhoun

I think it is very important that we understand that these are informal discussions,

Steve Brown

It's sort of an informal kind of prank the members have with one another.

Mary Powell

Is there interest? Absolutely. Just from informal conversations we've had with people, there's a lot of interest in our project and Ellicottville in general.

Christopher Morley

Informal is what women always say they're going to be and never are

Peter Post

The reason why I think we see this increase, today it's a more informal world; we're a friendlier world, perhaps, and people like to feel I think a connection.

Ryan Holmes

For an older generation of employees, social media often remains misunderstood and underutilized.

Taurean Green

We have to play a year older than what we really are.

Neil Gaiman

How would you feel about life if Death was your older sister?

Jessica Raine

You know that book 'Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking', by Susan Cain? That's like my manifesto. The older I get, the more I think I could be a hermit.

Richard Sloan

Many studies, especially some of the older ones, have significant methodological flaws, which render the conclusions questionable.

Jane Fonda

When you're an older woman [in a movie], you are the brunt of the joke.

Bill Jones

We did not have many seniors, so most of our team is returning. We're a year older and we should be bigger, stronger and faster.

Casey Self

My partner is 11 years older than me, and I'd like for him to be able to retire.

Armistead Maupin

I wish someone older than me and wiser than the people in Orlando had taken me aside.

Bonnie Langford

The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising.

Donald Gher

We're doing OK. Are we going gangbusters? No. As we get into the week after Christmas, you're going to have another push upward of sales.

Cheryl Lynn

I was upset with Delbert, because there he was going again and pushing me out in front, without asking me.

Ned Yost

We were getting short out there. You can't keep pushing it.

Rudy Murillo

We're really pushing this year to get the youth involved.

Bob Lachky

We're really pushing this hard, and we're starting to see some momentum.

John Danforth

We are not suggesting the resignation or pushing for the resignation of the secretary-general,

Fred Couples

We were trying to push each other on.

Charlotte Bronte

Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.

Albert Young

When you saw us getting pushed back over things that were non-existent ... come on. I don't know what to say about that.

Ted Ligety

My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

Ricky Ford

Sri Lanka pushed us all the way. We've been tested and bounced back stronger every time.

Malik Rose

We pushed it and got up the floor. Now we just have to get into something.

Stansfield Turner

I think he's being pushed out or made a scapegoat,

Nenad Krstic

He pushed me, so I pushed him back. I was surprised when he told me I was ejected. I didn't think it was fair. I don't know why I was ejected.

Dominic James

He pushed me every day. It hasn't stopped. He's the reason I'm here right now.

Danny White

We flat-out got pushed around tonight by a bigger, stronger team than us.

Katherine Johnson

We got some quick baskets. We scored on transition and we really pushed the pace.

Wendy Kopp

The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.

Chris Crutcher

If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it.

Jeffrey Gitomer

It never ceases to amaze me that companies will spend thousands of hours and millions of dollars teaching people 'how to sell,' and not one minute or not $10 on 'why they buy.' And 'why they buy' is all that matters.

Marshall McLuhan

Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.

Deborah Moggach

I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.

Minna Antrim

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

Benji Olson

You know the things you tried to teach us.

Ludwig von Mises

Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

Ludwig von Mises

A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

Martin Parr

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

James Garner

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

Patti Smith

My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.

Daisy Ridley

Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.

Ian Mckellen

It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

Ruth Rendell

I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know.

Larry Brown

I wanted to play some of the younger kids. I didn't think there was a way we were going to get back in that ballgame, the way it was going.

Moira Kelly

They used to say I was a younger Winona Ryder and that always made me laugh because I'm three years older than she is.