Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Sandlin

We always have trouble finishing, and I think some of that is because ... when you get beyond seven- or eight- (deep) for us, our quality, talent ... drops off. You get tired.

Kevin Lynch

A wide variety of devices beyond personal computers are arriving, many of which will be used to browse the Web... The Flash engineering team has taken this on with a major overhaul of the mainstream Flash Player for a variety of devices.

Kathleen Sebelius

In this 21st century world, some of our country's most significant exports and imports extend beyond goods and services: They also include innovation, knowledge, discovery, and healing.

Huda Zoghbi

We had been accumulating clues that the glutamine tract expansion is clearly what is important for disease because that's the mutation. But we also concluded that there was something else beyond the glutamine that's really mediating the toxicity of the protein.

Ken Bacon

We're looking at ways to improve the quality of life, ... Beyond pay and retirement, one is medical care, and that's a box that is yet to be checked, but it's something that the secretary and the chairman are working on, and I would hope that we'd have something to say about medical care relatively soon. But that's a work in progress.

Tom Ridge

we're concerned about targets beyond these and are working to get more information about them.

Rick Perlstein

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

The Talmud

Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.

The Talmud

Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives - they go only as far as the grave and leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond th

Kathryn Lasky

I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write.

John Grisham

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.

Karen McGuire

We had books in our library already on this art. That meant we could do research in our own collection.

Jean Fritz

When I lived in China, there were no libraries. My mother bought books for me, and they were mostly the classics. I read 'Peter Pan,' 'The Secret Garden,' the 'Rosemary' books, and Kipling's 'Just So' Stories was one of my favorites. No, I didn't read historical fiction. It didn't exist where I was growing up in China.

Edward Brooke

When I left the Senate in 1979, there were several publishers who had approached me about writing an autobiography, and I knew that politicians write books for many reasons, but at that time, I just thought I wasn't ready and my story wasn't over, and I knew I had a new life ahead of me.

Helen Sharman

When the history books are written in a thousand years, when space travel would have become routine, the moment that humans first left Earth will be of huge importance. Star City is a central part of this story and it deserves more recognition.

O. R. Melling

I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.

Yves Guillemot

We're looking at books, movies and TV shows that have strong characters from the past that we can take and build upon.

Reid Hoffman

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

Mark Johnson

I don't know any curriculum in which we can't use this.

Amy Peloff

I think what makes it unique is the emphasis that is given by the program to the idea of the students as scholars. A lot of our curriculum is driven by student interest and by the interactions that students have with the faculty and staff.

Carol Lear

Just because you went to school and to back-to-school night doesn't mean you know . . . the appropriate set of curriculum for a science course.

Jenna Berk

I think that everybody would gain a sense that literature is important, it's one of the reasons why we're alive. There's eating, sleeping, survival stuff, but I think that you really can't survive without literature, without poetry. It's a joy of life, which is funny to say when your curriculum includes Hemingway. It makes you go out in the world in a different way and look for beauty, a different way of expressing yourself.

Seth Lipshie

He helped refocus the curriculum at the high school. And he is mentoring other teachers in the district.

Rodman Philbrick

I was never forced to write. At least, I was never forced or even encouraged to write fiction. Creative writing wasn't in the curriculum at my school when I was in sixth grade.

Karen Haynes

We need to take a look at the curriculum we have in place and make sure we are training the caregivers of the future.

John Lovell

We aren't really doing anything different because we've had a strong writing curriculum all along. What we have found is our students are doing well on the writing part of the new SAT.

Tom Thayer

This year since gas is so expensive most of the curriculum series can tour to the schools.

Tina Fey

I think everyone's intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college, I discovered that I liked writing and that I was probably a little better at it.

Octavia E. Butler

Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.

Tori Kelly

My fans were the ones who discovered me on YouTube. I don't ever want to forget that.

Tift Merritt

In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head.

John Updike

For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, I discovered that the implausibility and the thinness of the people distracted me unduly from the plot.

Kim Cattrall

I enjoyed making people laugh. I discovered that I loved that power over them. On stage, I felt I could really express who I was for the first time.

Kathryn Harrison

I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.

Apparat

When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.

Stefan Sagmeister

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Engineering college students should be encouraged to start entrepreneurial ventures in their second year itself. It is safer to fail while in college.

Kate Bush

Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my work over the years.

Johnny McDaid

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

Uzo Aduba

I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

Paul Rice

She always encouraged her kids to do whatever they wanted.

Dan Province

She was my right hand woman and always encouraged me. She kept me on track.

Heather Smith

She's been a real positive influence. She's still helping me out. She encouraged me to do this (coach) and that's why I did it.

Richard Murray

We're really excited about it. We're also encouraged by the number of competitors who've signed up. So long as the weather holds up, we should have a great day.

Tom Lantos

(We) strongly encouraged them to understand that in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina, the focus of the American people will turn inward,

Buddha

When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky

Alastair Reynolds

When I look back at many of the moments of wonder, awe, or terror that I've got from science fiction, it's often been because I've been put in the head of one of the characters.

Jared Leto

It was a real honor to be able to work with someone like that that I've been watching since I was a kid. I mean, to play his brother left some people scratching their heads but something about it really worked.

Jeoff Hall

We're looking at undaunted consumers, with personal expenditures running at a heady clip.

Robert M. Pirsig

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

Rich Schoff

Luke's been playing very well lately. He's playing at a level where I'd like every to be playing heading into sectionals.

Marianne Faithfull

Lovers can do what they like to me - my head is cool.

Ayn Rand

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.

Tommy Shaw

It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.

David Ricardo

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

David Hockney

With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.

Barnett Newman

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.

Audrey Tautou

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

Deb Caletti

They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Lifting where we stand is a principle of power. Most of the priesthood bearers I know understand and live by this principle. They are eager to roll up their sleeves and go to work, whatever that work might be.

Diana Gabaldon

While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever thought it right that the Lord should be left to handle such things without assistance.

Charles Darwin

It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it

Bill Hicks

Let's do some comedy. I always like to add some comedy to my show. Those who've seen me before might know that.

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.

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.