Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Peloff

I think what makes it unique is the emphasis that is given by the program to the idea of the students as scholars. A lot of our curriculum is driven by student interest and by the interactions that students have with the faculty and staff.

Jenna Berk

I think that everybody would gain a sense that literature is important, it's one of the reasons why we're alive. There's eating, sleeping, survival stuff, but I think that you really can't survive without literature, without poetry. It's a joy of life, which is funny to say when your curriculum includes Hemingway. It makes you go out in the world in a different way and look for beauty, a different way of expressing yourself.

Mark Johnson

I don't know any curriculum in which we can't use this.

Seth Lipshie

He helped refocus the curriculum at the high school. And he is mentoring other teachers in the district.

DeEtta Culbertson

It's part of the overall package to improve education and increase college-readiness standards. We've already put in place a more rigorous curriculum and we're implementing several projects that are going to have an effect.

Stephen Williams

They could easily do AP, but to differentiate themselves from strong public schools they feel they must demonstrate how much 'better' their curriculum is.

Mike Levine

It looks at student work and how we review data given to us to help determine and design curriculum and enhance achievement.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

To force a human being to learn according to a set curriculum is a dictatorial act.

Martin Lewis Perl

The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

Nadine Velazquez

I'm a driven person, but I'm also cautious, and I overthink things sometimes.

Michael Raab

Going forward, DaimlerChrysler's fortunes will be driven by Mercedes Benz.

Bill Cowher

He's a special person; he means a lot to this team. He's been very much an inspiration to this team. I think we're driven very much by trying to make this a special year for him.

Mario Gabelli

I think we're going from a market that's driven by momentum and driven by a flow of funds to a stock picker's market. That's going to provide very good opportunities for those that are focused on given areas.

Don Perata

I think that we don't want to let this thing hang out there forever, but I don't want to be driven by a date.

Bob Thompson

I watch a lot of sports, and so far that's been what's driven the big-screen phenomenon. It's a status symbol; a lot of people get a lot of pleasure being able to show off this enormous piece of hardware.

Robin Williams

We men are driven to meet Miss Right . . . or at least Miss Right Now.

Bob Venero

He was highly driven and motivated to help the channel.

John Malkovich

I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn't gone into acting. Mind you, it's a great life, going around pretending you're other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it.

Mel Netzhammer

I think it's a natural evolution for Keene State College. The staff wants the emphasis to be on academics.

Michael Hara

I think we can outgrow the industry because of factors like Vista, which puts an emphasis on graphics.

Dan Brinkley

He had half their points in every quarter (in the last meeting). The emphasis was not to stop him, but to make him work hard for his baskets and tire him.

Bret Bielema

He never once has made any emphasis on his last home game or his last game. It's just been status quo.

Tullian Tchividjian

The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.

Joe Gibbs

Playing smart was a big emphasis this week, ... and we still had a number of penalties. That's still a real concern.

Ed Costley

Rebounding has been a big key to our success this season. We put a lot of emphasis on that.

Bill Rodgers

In my opinion, there's too much emphasis on just the long run in preparing for the marathon.

Howard Davidowitz

If you look at what's going on in retail, there's more and more emphasis on price.

Rich Ballinger

We're proud that any student can walk and play 18 holes of golf for $5 during the week and $8 during the weekend. Faculty and staff will have discounted rates as well. It's a great thing for the university as a whole. Students will have to provide their own equipment. In the future we hope to offer rental sets, but at the moment we don't have any.

Gene Pingatore

He is a quiet leader and an outstanding student. What impresses me the most is that all of the faculty have nothing but good things to say about him, and that shows his character.

James Conneely

In previous years, we mailed out the pledge form to all faculty and staff. This year we personally hand-delivered the pledge form to everyone.

Carol Miller

The faculty will be a little more relaxed this semester, because we know that problems are inevitable.

Richard Carson

(The faculty said) we should be doing something, because we like to teach that to the kids,

Neal Stephenson

This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research.

Michael Lewis

The idea is to keep top faculty in North Carolina. There will be some things they will teach back and forth.

Larry Allen

That's the first time the high school faculty has got that. It was really exuberant.

Christopher Keller

That proportion of the faculty that are older is getting steadily larger. So you've got this big turnover in the newly hired faculty, and the rest of the faculty is getting older. Sooner or later ... you'll have to replace the older faculty.

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

John Capel

Just to let them know that I haven't given up yet. They thought I was just going to let them have the title, but not yet.

Robert McKinley

Just pay attention. Make sure you're not given a product you don't want.

Max Minghella

I think it'd be pretty unrealistic to think we're the only planet in the world with thinking beings. It's kind of a strange conceit. Especially given how many universes there must be.

Steve Rives

He is someone who has given us a real go-to guy.

Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

Katori Hall

I grew up playing with kids from Hurt Village, playing with kids from other housing projects, Lamar Terrace, because my grandmother lived in that particular area. So, I always wondered how I would have turned out if I would have lived in that particular given circumstance.

Amelia Torres

What we do when we investigate mergers is that sometimes we might feel the need to get more information on a given product or geographical market and we have to get that from the companies.

Ron Suskind

Haven't we already given money to rich people... Shouldn't we be giving money to the middle?

Oscar Gonzalez

I would think the probability of a move (on interest rates) would be somewhere around the 40 percent range.

John Kessel

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Len Lichtenfeld

I suspect that there will be a significant interest in getting better tests into the mainstream.

Scott Shapiro

I think it's 18 teams that have shown interest.

Alex Tang

I think investors will very soon realize that interest rates and oil prices are still going up. A big selling may be near.

George Burley

It can have a snowball effect. With the national side doing well there is more interest in the game, which is great.

Lisa Presley

Having kids was the smartest thing I've ever done. They're little sponges who come into the world with a clean, shiny slate and such pureness. I'm interested in having more kids.

Jerry Colangelo

He's having a sensational season. Obviously, we've got interest (in Anthony) because of where he is with his interest and his maturity.

Ron Hilliard

He should have a big year. He's been rated by Dennis McCarty as one of the top linemen in the state. Michigan State, Penn State and Rutgers are very interested in Dan.

Vinton Cerf

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

Caroline Brown

In the programs we've run before, I would say that more than 75% of the participants have NOT truly been in this at-risk category.

Mark Roberts

In England, there are so many TV commercials with nudity in them, and there are so many TV programs that show nudity on a regular basis. It's becoming more of a norm.

Seimone Augustus

I really don't understand how a men's and women's program wouldn't get along. It's like brotherhood and sisterhood with us.

Ray Tanner

I like it the other way; I like the stability. But there are a lot of teams that make changes. There are many very successful programs that don't always stick with their rotation.

Jodie McClain

I'm excited. I know there is still more in me and I'm going to a program that will work with me. It is going to be a big change, but intimidated? No, not really.

J. C. Watts

Their program is relatively expensive, but a lot of it is conditional. We don't know what they're going to cut.

Lynn Johnston

Every time I "get with the program" somebody changes the channel.

Gary Buehler

The generic-drug program is very important to the F.D.A..

Wally Lamb

I love the most the students with troubled lives.

Sam Abell

That's who comes to my workshops. I jokingly tell my students that the class could be called "Your photographs: Better."

Nelson Fields

Our better students tend to op for the (Bachelor of Arts) program.

Bill Walker

In effect, the out-of-state students here are subsidizing the in-state students.

Steve Lemke

The faculty's dispersed; the students are dispersed. Is there any way of salvaging this semester?

Mila Kunis

I was actually a pretty good student. My problem was that I didn't know what I wanted to study.

James Remar

James Remar is a student of life.

Louis Menand

You have to have students wanting to take the courses, otherwise you're not going, they're not going to be very effective.

Johnnie Jones

All those things to make them better students and better citizens.

Jon Heder

I think we have a unique voice we really want to get out there.

Richard Dawkins

Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable to scholars... In a small way his execution represents a wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data.

William Shirley

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

William J. Clinton

We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a truly unifying national effort. We can start right now.

William James

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

Will Ferrell

I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

One of the most important milestones we'll all hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our unique point of view and realize how priceless it is.

Samuel P. Huntington

I don't think that the Israeli lobby is unique. It may differ from the others in the extent by which it is focused on just one issue, which is the survival of Israel, which is understandable, and promoting Israeli development and aid to Israel, and so forth and so on.

Richard M. Nixon

Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.