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.

Diane Ravitch

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

Dikembe Mutombo

I created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation back in 1997 for the purpose of going in and improving the living conditions of my people on the African continent, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo where I came from. Out first mission was to go and build a new hospital. Our next mission was to build a school.

Anton Yelchin

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

Bruce Boxleitner

I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.

Edward Abbey

Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.

Edward Abbey

Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.

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.

Carine Roitfeld

In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.

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...

Chris Evans

I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out.

Dennis Prager

I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.

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.

Edmund Burke

All government is founded on compromise and banter.

Edward Norton

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

Edward Snowden

Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.

Edward Snowden

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.