Famous Quotes & Sayings

Reed PhD

Leadership without support is like trying to make bricks without enough straw. True leaders reinforce their ideas and plans with strategic partnerships, alliances and supportiveaudiences.

Benjamin Britten

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.

D. James

Of course a sports psychologist can help - it's certainly helped me. People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.

Johnson Honimae

Mobs and looters have been hurling rocks and bricks at passing patrol police vehicles.

Gary Barnett

Web services are the mortar. But you also have to consider the bricks and the shape of the building.

John Barlow

I fought it hammer and tong, but the drummers had inoperable bricks in their head about it. What's worse is that they now want to remove all Dead music from the Web.

Bill Jr

Time marches on. We've got a wonderful new facility under construction and it's Busch Stadium - it's just different bricks and mortar.

Anselm Kiefer

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.

Scott Gibson

It hit me like a ton of bricks that I needed to be there. There are fascinating advancements occurring in the biotech and genomics fields. We'll have to learn what's going on or we'll be sitting on the sidelines and be left out of touch.

John Krasinski

The things we always disengage with are one-sided stories or one-sided characters. They're very boring. When you feel like you're being hit over the head, you disengage.

Carlos Beltran

When he hit the ball, the first thing that I did was freeze. The second thing that I did was take a step back. And when it was time for me to come forward, it was too late for me.

Sean Singletary

When he hit that, I knew he was going to be hot.

Alex Padilla

When he hit me that first time it made me realize what I was actually out there doing.

J. D. Souther

When I lived in Los Angeles, I used to live in the Hollywood Hills, behind Grauman's Theater, and I'd always hit the matinees.

Donald Lowe

When the meteor hits the surface, it instantaneously melts and vaporizes rock, and that rock vapor is sucked right back up the hole into the atmosphere,

Jose Cano

Makes me nervous. I want him to get a hit right now. I don't want him to go down. I want him to stay here forever.

Retief Goosen

Luckily, it doesn't really hurt me when I hit the ball. I know it's there, but it's nothing serious.

Larry Gispert

Life could be very, very different if we get hit by a major hurricane.

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.

Dennis Hopper

For most of my life I wasn't on the left.

Richard Seymour

When I look back at football, I've always said to myself, 'I'd rather leave the game and have something in my tank rather than have left all of me out on the field.'

Jon Anderson

When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself with music,

Rod McKuen

I was tired. I peaked. I left when I was on top. One year, I did 280 concerts.

Michael Slater

Let's just say that there was a settlement but, like many other creditors, I've been left out of pocket,

Logan Mankins

I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.

Jeremy Luke

In college, I would just drop out of all my classes, and I would just be left with my acting classes.

Janis Joplin

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

Carol Ann Duffy

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

Tallia Cahoon

When I got to Ruby, I needed to know more.

Ryk Neethling

We needed Athens. People see us and say well done on Athens, well done on Montreal. We shocked the world, shocked everyone.

Jim McLaughlin

We needed a stop but didn't get it. I had all my timeouts but we couldn't stop the ball.

Ron Simms

We needed a public-private partnership. We needed an employer-led organization, but it was important to have all stakeholders at the table.

Sean Bennett

We needed all that work. We need all the work we can get.

Allison Robertson

We needed a little more variety, some different tempos and textures. It was not a plan to go for something new; it was just trying to play something that pleased us.

Jaromir Jagr

We needed a lift. We were kind of dead.

Karin Slaughter

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

Janet Watson

This was a stepping stone win for us, something we really needed to accomplish.

Bobby Bowden

I suppose I'm like most coaches now, standing on the sideline hoping somebody asks them a question.

David Katz

If you're in training for the NFL, then having Gatorade at the sidelines is reasonable,

Ernie Els

Being on the sidelines is really not my idea of fun, but that's the way it is,

Alan Greenspan

I know this institution will go on doing extraordinary things, and I will look on from the sidelines and cheer.

Deepa Mehta

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

Don Helling

We're sitting in a super spot for tomorrow.

Ezra Klein

If I'm sitting around exulting over traffic data, I'm an idiot.

Brian Eno

Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.

Brian Lara

The only batsman I would love to see by paying for the tickets and sitting in the stand just to watch him is none other than Sachin Tendulkar

Brandon Sanderson

Ham shook his head, sitting down, pouring himself something to drink. "I don't get it, El. Why'd she attack him?" "She's loony," Spook said.

Jim Schmitz

The only place I got to see him was sitting on the bench.

Pat Burstein

She did everything in a hurry. When she was sitting in a chair, she'd get up running.

Rosa Parks

she stood up by sitting down. I'm only standing here because of her.

Audre Lorde

Some words live in my throat breeding like adders. Others know sun seeking like gypsies over my tongue to explode through my lips

Antonio Villaraigosa

You all know I love L.A., but tonight I really love L.A.,

Dee Dee Ramone

Wondering what I'm doing tonight I've been in the closet and feel all right

Al Yankovic

I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.

Kael Ashton

We're senior-loaded, and we have a ton of experience.

Ethan Suplee

I think anything Tony Kaye would've done would've been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing.

Edward Norton

When you have a pipe salesman with a business called Macabee Pipes, I'd say you've got your tongue planted firmly in your cheek.

Buddy Hackett

Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, you would never see a bad show.

William Shakespeare

In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.