Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Robertson

I see this as turning a page on past disagreements and turning to new chapters of dialogue and cooperation on matters of mutual interest,

Scott Westerfeld

When I finish a first draft, I often look back at first chapters I wrote and laugh at them. They're like pictures of yourself in middle school. You're embarrassed to see them.

Ryan Crocker

You have written history in a very major way and you have also written a new chapter in the way that nations worked together.

Jack Williamson

I got involved with it and sort of discovered the story chapter by chapter as I went along,

Jamaal Williams

I feel like I was closing the chapter on the whole New Mexico thing. The motivation was definitely there, with a guy I used to play for, former teammates.

David Levy

The House Committee looks forward to collaborating with her in writing the next chapter of the Athenaeum's history,

Michael Linenberg

Our previous view ascribed a 50 percent to 60 percent probability to a Delta Chapter 11 filing. We now think it's 80 percent to 90 percent, primarily to the recent surge in oil prices north of $60 a barrel,

Dot Matthews

The death watch continues, with very little hope that it can end in other than a Chapter 11 (bankruptcy) filing.

Bill Sullivan

Today starts a new chapter of Agilent. We have made decisions today for us to be able to focus on our core that we have been a leader in for the last 65 years.

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Scott Eyre

I've become a better pitcher because I've learned to economize.

Russ Ortiz

After I sat down and thought about it, I learned a lot about the game, about myself.

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Ozzie Guillen

Now I learned a lesson. I never thought I was going to do that, and it's ugly because I know a lot of people have taken the first shot at me, and I come back real strong.

Brian Tracy

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

Aubrey Peeples

It's about learning what's important and what's not important, and at the end of the day, what size you are does not matter at all. I don't have time to worry about that stuff; I'm going to be healthy.

Mark Sanford

What I've come to learn is that (the Jasper port) would be a private (venture), ... If that's the case, I have no problem with it whatsoever.

Brian Sullivan

At the local level, to be able to say that you're doing better than you were, or you're not, is pretty important.

Nathan Moss

I got to thinking of the school system, especially our local school here.

E. B. White

Its important to do things locally as well, ... impeach.

Paul Decker

We've been briefed by the local organizing people.

Azzedine Alaia

I used to spend my nights oversewing dresses for a local dressmaker in order to pay for my school equipment.

Rep. Arza

We don't want the state solving local problems, but we want to be partners in the local problem.

Amity Gaige

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Boris Vallejo

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

Barbara Kingsolver

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Benjamin Bratt

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

Carl Zimmer

Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved when we talk about evidence from fossils and DNA.

Alan Dershowitz

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa].