Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Lynes

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

William Zinsser

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.

William Jennings Bryan

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

William James

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

Roger Ascham

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Robert Scheer

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

Robert M. Hutchins

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

William Hung

I enjoy tutoring. I just really enjoy the experience of teaching.

William Bennett

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

Obie Trice

I would love to get with somebody who knows the fundamentals of making the movie, then get my money up and start getting into that.

James Surowiecki

The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.

Joanna Newsom

There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love with.

Jim Rohn

There are no new fundamentals. You've got to be a little suspicious of someone who says, "I've got a new fundamental." That's like someone inviting you to tour a factory where they are manufacturing antiques.

Antonio Tabucchi

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

Bob Brown

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

Donna Dubinsky

It strikes at a fundamental human need to be organized.

Donald Luskin

The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter.

David Antin

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

Yehuda Berg

The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.

David Foster Wallace

Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.

Neil Gaiman

Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.

Mayim Bialik

I'm generally intimidated by adults.

Maria Montessori

Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.

Mark Leyner

I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.

Evelyn Waugh

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

Jeanette Winterson

Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.

Georges Pompidou

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.