Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Gregory

We actually choose the schools that we work with in each location, so basically we evaluate them based on curriculum, facilities, reputation and cost.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off of Christian values. It goes hand-in-hand. As far as the Republican Party? I felt connected to it because individual freedom should not be legislated by the federal government.

Scott Aker

We had based all of our defensive game plan on stopping the big guys and neglected to get on him early and he hit like five in a row on us.

Ralph Catalano

We can never use humans to directly test out the theories. We can only make inferences based on natural observation.

Lev Grossman

When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.

Danielle Schneider

I miss Lisa 'Left Eye' every day. Watched her VH1 special many times. A tragedy. But I didn't see the movie based on her.

Tessanne Chin

I do have very solid reggae roots based on the fact that I'm Jamaican, and so that is a part of myself; even if I never do all reggae, it has to come out in some way because that's who I am.

Uday Kotak

Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.

Jack Finn

We're glad to have them, but you can't build up your services based on temporary residents. You need to provide services, but you don't built up a long-term strategy serving the National Guard.

Jenna Blum

When I lived in Minneapolis in my twenties, and my mom lived there, too, I used to take her 'storm chasing' - by which I mean I'd see a pulsing blob of radar on The Weather Channel and make her drive us toward the storm.

Jaswant Singh

When the need arises, the two militaries can engage in dialogue through existing established channels so that the de-escalation process is properly handled,

Reggie Watts

I love the idea of something beautiful happening, and then it being abrasively cut into. Because in a way it's similar to switching channels or surfing the web; I like people getting lulled into something and then taking them somewhere else.

Todd Chanko

The real issue here is whether or not there's going to be a paradigm shift or real channel shift (to video players).

Travis Bradberry

Grit is that 'extra something' that separates the most successful people from the rest. It's the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.

Rocky Rosas

Network security is a key component of end-to-end networking solutions, and that's what D-Link is about. Clearly, having a comprehensive security strategy is key to us, as well as being able to offer that through our channel partners and VARs.

Patrick Reilly

One of our most popular channels is 'Sirius Hits,' which plays the most popular songs in high rotation. But we have other channels, like bluegrass, where listenership isn't as high, but there's an extremely high level of satisfaction. That's the kind of service we can provide.

Ben Gill

No one can pretend that simply re-opening our export channels will undo all the damage which has been done.

Thomas Ardito

One thing we have learned from doing these things is not to get too fancy with the channel designs. Once the water starts flowing, it usually has its own ideas on where to go.

Ben Stiller

Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.

Ben Stiller

Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.

Bill Hader

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

Tom Stoppard

One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been, I probably wouldn't have wanted to translate it. There are no one-liners. It's much more a truthful comedy than a play of dazzling wit.

Mallory Ortberg

One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.

Horace Walpole

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Jean Bruyere

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

Katherine Parkinson

You do develop a taste as an actress: Chekhov, Ayckbourn: it's the combination of comedy and human drama. I would never want to do anything without comedy.

Aziz Ansari

I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat. When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour.

James Rubin

The procedural hurdle that emerged yesterday has been overcome and we are proceeding apace.

Robbie Fowler

When I emerged Liverpool had a tradition of their players working hard and playing hard, back before the Nineties and through all the glory era.

Mark Oaten

We still want to try to seek consensus, however two sticking points have emerged for us.

Mike Gill

What he did great after that first inning was get the first and second guy out before giving up that hit. He's really emerged as the ace, and we're going to keep riding him.

Judy Preston

I don't say this lightly: Louisiana has emerged as a model for juvenile justice systems in this country.

Ivo Daalder

One of the remarkable things about Macedonia is that it is the only republic that has emerged out of Yugoslavia in which there is a multi-ethnic government.

Carrie Mae Weems

I emerged in that incredible moment in the 1980s when all kinds of social questions about subjectivity and objectivity, about who was making, who was looking.

Stan Gundy

I emerged from summer league feeling that I would have no trouble, no problem playing Wayne Simien. And I think that's the first step for any player. ... I think he has the skills and the smarts and the toughness where you would have no problem.

David Suzuki

We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or opportunity.

Amy Turner

When I got the project, it seemed to make a lot of sense to put the festival on Gold Avenue,

Bible Bible

Let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths

Garry Kasparov

I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books.

Cameron Watson

We're having such a good time here. We have taken this film to a number of festivals and this is our favorite.

Chris Lamont

Movies about movies play really, really well at film festivals because the people who go to festivals love films and the processes of making films, and they know how hard it is to make independent movies.

Dawn Taubin

September is the new October. Everything is moving up in the year, and Toronto is the right festival at the right time.

Brian Setzer

For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.

Brian Henson

we sent a troupe to Edinborough, and then in Edinborough, there was a producer from the Melbourne Comedy Festival, so we went to Melbourne. So it's one of these shows that kind of organically developed and it started developing momentum way before I even thought there was a show here.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.

David Brainerd

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Alain de Botton

There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

Al Davis

Time never stops for the great ones

Blaise Pascal

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

Charles Eastman

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

Charles Eastman

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

Matt Will

No one is better situated than we are in Indiana to do this.

Richard Sheirer

Giuliani visited Indian Point and said, 'It's a reverse of Marion' high-security prison in upstate New York. It's as secure as Marion, but not in keeping people in but keeping people out.

John Trudell

I'm a member of the American Indian Movement, and I'm from the indigenous nations of the Western Hemisphere.

George Crook

But we must not try to drive the Indians too fast in effecting these changes.

Tasnim Aslam

If it is part of the significant reduction in Indian presence in Indian occupied Kashmir, we will welcome it.

Daryl Kimball

If the Indians mean what they say (about not testing), they should have no quibble with this provision.

Aasif Mandvi

That's the Indian in me - you must put spices on everything. As a kid, whenever we got sick, my mom would take milk and put turmeric in it. That was our medicine. That was the cure-all. Some people turn to Robitussin.

Derek Bok

Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.

John Davis

Look what he's done for our community, for the sports program alone. He's a coach. Try and top him. You're not going to top him,

Benito Mussolini

The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.

Brian Mills

The program has been up and down, but it's always been consistent.

S. Hughes

This program was not the one I really wanted to do,

Gina Servedio

This program is tested and proven to work.

Koleen Roach

This program is a big deal. We try to get as many advisors there as possible.

Tracey Black

This program has been outstanding, especially for my daughter.

Donna Ferber

One of the things I try to do with this program is to normalize their experiences. One of the things women often tell me about the workshops is that they feel heard.

Ian Mckellen

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Timothy Simons

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.

Jeff Jensen

Keep our water treatment plant, ... Don't go with the regional system.

Richard Aboulafia

It has a big feel in a regional jet.

Ferran Adria

There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

B. F. Skinner

We have a lot of regional qualifiers. We've been there before but now we want to get them to state.

Grant McCasland

Once you win that, you concentrate on winning the regional championship.

Bobbi Dunn

You're going to have to win at your own course, or you're not going to make it (into the regional tournament). Then you look at our region, and it's going to be a shootout, too.

David Vitter

Catholic schools prepare every student to meet the challenges of their future by developing their mind, yes, but also their body and their soul and spirit.

David Walliams

I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.

David Henry Hwang

Well, there's no guarantee of failure in life like happiness in high school.

David Hyde Pierce

I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.

David Horowitz

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.

David Hilbert

I didn't work especially hard at mathematics at school, because I knew that's what I'd be doing later.

David Icke

And if you look at society, the way it works, they are creating, from cradle to grave, left-brain prisoners. To advance in this society, you have to be good at passing exams in school, which are taking in left-brain information overwhelmingly. Then you go to the next level, and so on so that by the time you reach any level of significant influence in society or the institutions of society, you are fundamentally locked into your left brain. Or at least the majority of people are.

David Hume

It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment as the greatest orator, who triumphs in the splendour of his eloquence, while he governs the passions and resolutions of a numerous assembly.

David Hume

If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.

Arthur Rimbaud

No one's serious at seventeen.

Dee Dee Ramone

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

Al Franken

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

Al Franken

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

Al Gore

This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.

Michael Bidwill

We're serious about winning. The new stadium allows us to do some things that we haven't been able to do before.

George Washington

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters, let it be somewhat grave.

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Ben Whishaw

One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.

Benicio Del Toro

I trained as a theatre actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

Antonin Artaud

Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.

Antonin Artaud

There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.

Ajay Naidu

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

Billy Bob Thornton

We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them.

Arthur Miller

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

Boris Spassky

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

In [my] youth I was smacked around.

Dick Clark

The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life.

Chris Evans

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

Jamie Redknapp

In his youth Michael Owen was literally a greyhound.

Benjamin Disraeli

To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.

Bruce Catton

Early youth is a baffling time

Barbara Mertz

A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.

David Rakoff

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

Agnes Repplier

the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.