Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evan Spiegel

I am a young, white, educated male. I got really, really lucky. And life isn't fair.

Philip Dick

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

Sandra Tsing Loh

Typically, middle-class educated parents' search for their children's schools takes on the feel, if not of teen girls trying on different outfits, of adolescents trying on various selves.

Orison Marden

Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Carol Duncan

When you're looking at risk, you're always doing an educated guess.

Sathya Baba

Virtue is the sign of the educated person. This is what makes education worthwhile.

S. Walker

We've got a very educated and skilled work force that is not stupid. They understand the implications of (the proposed contract) and they voted accordingly.

Victoria Khan

The hardest thing was not knowing the language. I had to rely on others to translate for me. Asif is very educated and speaks seven languages.

Lawrence Frank

The guy has been in great gyms. He is extremely well educated in the game of basketball.

Vikram Seth

After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.

Harold Johnson

The police had to use less-than-lethal force to take him down.

Mohammed Ali

The police force is full of corruption, and the law process has collapsed,

Ben Carson

The P.C. police are out in force at all times... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.

Jeff Newman

The pay-per-view people were very organized and they forced him to think about things he never would have thought of. He knew he needed professionals to do that.

Brian Kernighan

Technology is mostly a force for good, but it has its downsides, too. I want my students - and my readers - to be intelligently skeptical about technology and be informed about the good and the not-so-good parts.

Gore Vidal

If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.

Fareed Zakaria

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

Everett Dirksen

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Eric Hausler

What's proposed in New York is not competitive.

Abbas Zaidi

We have proposed Karachi as a Test and a one-day venue.

Christo

Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.

Howard Miller

I think what he's proposed is accommodating It's gorgeous.

Marty McOmber

This wasn't a surprise. This is why we proposed the legislation.

David Lennon

That is false. They have proposed nothing to us other than threats, concessions and substandard conditions.

Edward Hennessey

There was no relationship, there was a proposed relationship,

Khaled Mashaal

They proposed this. Our reply was clear. We told them that we already have had two recent experiences regarding the truce that were not encouraging.

Stephen Byers

The proposed merger...might result in a substantial lessening of competition,

Randy Carlyle

He's a skilled player; as with any skilled player, if you give him time and space, he's going to make plays.

Al Groh

He's a no-maintenance, no-baggage player. On top of that, he's a very skilled player.

Tony Bina

We've worked that all year. We're not a real skilled team. We need to get the hard-working goals.

Barack Obama

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

Dan O'Dowd

We're not going to have credibility overnight, and we understand that.

Nikki Reed

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

Rick Wakeman

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

Bill Belichick

Understanding what not to do sometimes is just as important as what you can do.

Clayton Christensen

Understanding motivation is one of the most important things we can do in our lives, because it has such a bearing on why we do the things we do and whether we enjoy them or not.

Stephen Hawking

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Nate Silver

Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.

Paul Lowe

This is where I voted from, this is where I live, this is it.

Michelle Anderson

I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified.

Bob Crowder

I voted the way I thought we had to.

Nelson Mandela

I voted for myself. Even if I go to my grave, I will wake up and come and vote.

M. Hopper

I voted for Bush, and I don't have anything to disapprove of.

Hon Ip

It will be like 'Survivor.' We'll see which ones get voted off the island.

Ahmed Ali

We voted for the one who can make a change,

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.

Evangeline Lilly

I've not worked with Martin Freeman. I've hung out with him, but I've not worked with him.

Don Shula

You try to get the most out of the talent. Make 'em work and let 'em play.

David Byrne

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

Colonel Sanders

I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.

Brooke Burke

I've always done ab work, even when I was pregnant.