Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Damon Lindelof

I always remember liking school.

Ed Miliband

I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

Shaw Wu

We all touch Windows at work or at school, whether we like it or not.

Alexandra Adornetto

At one school I visited, everyone had read 'Halo,' and they were all dressed up as angels - with halos!

Peter Uihlein

I was born in Massachusetts. I live in Stillwater. I went to school in Florida.

Seth Rogen

My high school years were exactly like 'Superbad.'

Terry Pratchett

The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect

Auguste Comte

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Brian Selznick

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

C. S. Lewis

That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.

Al Gore

I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's lives and the planet rather than destroy them.

Charles Kettering

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

Bob Dylan

Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane...

Dennis Prager

I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one

Dee Dee Myers

Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.

Brooke Burke

I have no idea what I weigh. I don't even own a scale.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Aristotle

A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge;

Aristotle

Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

Dirk Kempthorne

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

Hutton Wilkinson

And when the income tax was introduced, she was the first person to sue the government over taxes.