Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maynard Jackson

I look forward to working closely with the DNC under Terry's tenure, ... I look forward to continuing the focus I began in my campaign on rebuilding state parties, election reform and ensuring that no voter and no state is left behind.

Robert Lewis

The group began by making comments that the victim looked like a geek or a nerd.

Gabrielle Aplin

I've grown up with a piano in the house, and that's where I started to be able to learn things by ear. Guitar kind of happened, and I was using it just for writing at first. Then, I was writing so much that I began to realise that I knew how to play, and that's when I started getting nerdy about it.

Robert Byrd

I've given most of my life to serving the people of West Virginia, and it began here 59 years ago, ... six more years, six more years.

Bill Bray

Not a single school has closed. We just began a new term last Monday, the students are coming back, and the faculty is carrying on without salary.

Paul Bowen

It looks as though a slow earthquake began to split it years ago. I have to grip the steering wheel of my Ranger very tightly as I dare to stay about 10 miles an hour slower than my faster sedan and coupe rivals, praying for deliverance at the county line.

E. O. Wilson

It makes too much sense for our cities to market themselves as one to the rest of the country. Think of how the Carolina Panthers first began marketing themselves. They weren't the Charlotte Panthers. Now they draw from the whole state and South Carolina.

Novala Takemoto

When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters from people who said they were waiting for me to express what they felt they couldn't, so I kept writing.

Tim Ryan

And as we began the war in Iraq, many, many, many months ago, we began to shift our focus from Afghanistan to Iraq.

If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice." Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.

Ian Macdonald

Investigations revealed the vessel was carrying 143 tonnes of Patagonian toothfish,

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Michele Waslin

It would say to those 11 million undocumented immigrants that you have to come forward and register, pay thousands of dollars of fines so that you can be deported to your home country with no guarantee of ever coming back again. We don't think that's feasible.

Jimmy Cliff

It was the vehicle that propelled me to international stardom. I was known as a singer songwriter before that, but people did not know me as an actor. It showed the world where the music I contributed to create was coming from. It opened the gates for Jamaican music, internationally.

James Williams

It was to get the people of New Orleans to come home and to get them excited about coming home.

Andrew Miller

It was the toughest decision I ever made in my life. But in the end, I kept coming back to Ohio State.

Kenneth Jolly

It was unbelievable, tubes everywhere coming out of my boy. I still hate to think about it.

Ramon Hernandez

It was unbelievable, especially coming this time of the year.

Claude Puel

It was very strange. I really looked forward to fans coming back into the stadium.

Quantez Robertson

It was very in need. We were getting kinda sluggish. People were tired. Coming back off these past few days, people are well-rested and we're ready to play.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Nikola Tesla

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Octavio Dotel

What I saw today, it made me feel good. It made my work for the last nine months look good. I've been waiting for it.

Rachael Vanderwal

I think we've come together as a team. Last year we had an up and down season. We would have one win and then two losses and then another win. There was just a lot of inconsistency. This year you can feel that everyone is into it.

Michael Fox

I think this last run-up in prices really did people in.

Rich Harden

I think that was big. I'd been struggling getting through the last inning. Usually I get tired and get wild.

Alex Kingston

Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.

Alex Grey

It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.

Albert Shanker

It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.

Debi Thomas

I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.

E. L. Konigsburg

There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character.

E. L. Konigsburg

Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it

E. M. Forster

School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.

Drew Carey

The economy is in trouble, schools are in trouble, and people have been leaving the city in droves for a long, long time.

Doug E. Fresh

I was probably like 13 years old, 14. And I used to walk home doing the beatbox from school. That's how I created it. There was no walkmans back then, no iPods, no CDs. There was just me. Back then there was the boom box.

Robert H. Schuller

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Jessica Savitch

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

Willie Smith

If the students see it as something they can put to use, then they are interested.