Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Sheffield

Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.

Richelle Mead

You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you’re less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone—not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee—push you around.

William Zinsser

Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written and looks at it with the objectivity of a plumber examining a newly piped bathroom to see if he got all the joints tight.

William Sanderson

The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.

William Matthews

Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided--the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity.

William Wordsworth

Let Nature be your teacher

William Saroyan

Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man.

William Nicholson

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

William James

From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.

Pierce Brosnan

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

Travis Tritt

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

Robert Wyatt

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

Rod Parsley

God loves to hear your singing - so sing.

Robin Trower

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

Kelli O'Hara

When you're pregnant, things-at least for me-get very sincere and very wholesome, and it's about family, and singing becomes about warmth.

Maria Callas

Only when I was singing did I feel loved.

Krist Novoselic

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

Muddy Waters

I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.

Steven Taylor

I will have it operated on as soon as possible now, and get back as quickly as I can.

David Butler

They'll have to shrink their operations and vigorously sell whatever they can.

Joseph Schwieterman

They have to completely revamp their operations to survive.

Dasha Zhukova

It's important to know how to operate within the system you are existing in.

Nellie Melba

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself

Ashley Benson

I was on the soap opera 'Days of our Lives.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.

Kate Winslet

I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff.

John Brady

They patted the pocket, ... The thing was they were all together in the room. Once they dispersed, it would have been gone. ... This is standard operating procedure.