Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Donner

The Service is determined to take the actions necessary to save and restore the smelt, and that is where we are focusing our energies.

Sara Teasdale

I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes

Paul Aronsohn

I've been planning to declare my candidacy for a few weeks, and her action did not affect my decision. I hope and expect we can come together as a party and community.

Clyde Powless

I've been in direct contact with the (Ontario Provincial Police) and we're pretty well assured. . .that there will be no action taken by them.

Mark Roman

This is a new year. Last year is the furthest thing from my mind right now. Right now, my (mind-set) is to go out and control the things I can control. I'm not looking for one thing to vindicate me.

Ted Leonsis

This is not personal; it's business. This course of action was encouraged by our law firm and the NHL. We have a contract with Alexander, and we want his agent and Russian hockey team to honor that commitment.

Kent Cooper

This is one of the largest examples we've had to date where congressional action was predicated on money being given for the action.

Damon Hill

This is out of the ordinary. We took this action because we wanted to get the operator to focus on exactly what could be going wrong.

John Abizaid

The weather was bad. We don't know of any enemy action. The investigation continues,

Gregory Schulte

As a first step, we envision a call (by the council) for Iran to cooperate with the IAEA and take the steps identified by the board to restore confidence.

Hayley Hasselhoff

Straight sized boards are models size 0-6. Plus size boards are models starting at a 10. If a size 8 girl was 5' 11 and curvy, she'd be on the plus sized board, because there's nothing in between.

Dan Fisher

This is ... a wonderful program and we have just touched the tip of the iceberg with the potential in this Greencastle community and we hope in the next year or two that others will jump on board with it.

Kathryn Blehart

We developed a team to select a board and took it to the commissioners and that's how the library (at its current location) got started.

Tim Hopley

First thing on the board is that Huffman is a 3-point shooter off the catch. She came out and had four of them tonight.

Anthony Coley

We have every intention of reinvigorating this board before the permanent president is selected.

Mike Pirtle

We got a few runs on the board and Trey went to work and kept them off the bases. Everyone got up there and competed real well at the plate tonight.

Tom Nelson

We gained a ton of fan support this year in Richland and in Idaho. We're a family-oriented race team. The kids have really come on board with the Piranha boat with everybody has been standing up and cheering us on. That brings them to the pits, too.

Richard Nugent

We want to get the School Board involved with this, too, ... Only a very small part of this will be used as a substation.

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.

Billy Childish

I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.

Bobby Fischer

She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that I should get friends outside of chess, you can't make a living from chess, that I should finish high school and all that nonsense. She keeps in my hair and I don't like people in my hair, you know, so I had to get rid of her.

Brie Larson

For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school. For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.

Brendon Urie

I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.

Ludwig von Mises

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

Charles Spurgeon

We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy.

E. B. White

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

Plato

Is virtue something that can be taught?

Gordon B. Hinckley

God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.

Leonard Cohen

I taught him how to dress. He taught me how to live forever.

Jurgen Moltmann

Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.

Paula Abdul

And I have been taught never, never to lie,

Azar Nafisi

I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

Ben Goldacre

I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton.

Jason Aldean

I only took about five guitar lessons in my life from an actual teacher. I learned fast that that wasn't for me. I didn't have the attention span to learn that way. So I learned the basics from my dad, then just from playing on stage, and watching other guitar players.

bell hooks

A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.

Daniel Handler

Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.

Barbara Cook

The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.

Aristophanes

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Stephen Jay Gould

'Creation science' has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false.

Robert Kiyosaki

Success is a poor teacher

Patrick Smith

That play took a lot out of us.

Alice Temperley

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

Tom Daschle

He took charge, and it made a big difference,

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Pete Carroll

It took all day long to get this win, ... It took every second.

Scott Justus

They took us out of some of the things we wanted to do.

Ricky Proehl

They took away a lot of things. They took us completely out of our game, and that's a tribute to them.

Christopher Hitchens

I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.