Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Madden

This is a conspiracy involving chemists, coaches and certain athletes using what they developed to be 'undetectable' designer steroids to defraud their fellow competitors and the American and world public who pay to attend sporting events,

Shannon Brown

A kid that has been blessed with feet like that is going to be on the field, ... It would be hard for any player to come in here midseason and get playing time on the varsity level. You would have to be a tremendous athlete and Larry is a heck of an athlete.

Jerome Bettis

The first year, you're a fish out of water; you have no idea of the offense. Year two, you know the offense, you're comfortable. Now you can see the confidence come out, so now you see an athlete look like a totally different football player because they've got confidence, they're playing with authority and they understand where they need to be. So it's not so much that they get better in terms of talent, but you can see the talent.

Tom Carr

You don?t have to choose between being an elite athlete and being a student.

Norman Mailer

What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is good and where the person is less good. Writers are like that but don't admit it.

Norman Ralph Augustine

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

O. J. Simpson

I feel that my advances in the business world will shatter a lot of white myths about black athletes-and give some pride and hope to a lot of young blacks.

Jonathan Hayes

Everyone has to understand one thing: This kid's been doing this only for a week. Obviously, the drills are going to be a little rusty, not look always the way you want them to, just because he hasn't done the drills. But the thing he has done is been an athlete for four years, and a damn good one, so that's where sometimes he can catch up on the learning curve. ... I think he has the willingness. Now we'll see where it goes from there.

Bob Sweeney

The Board of Education sees numbers. I see faces. If someone thinks the star athlete is the one getting by, they're wrong. These are the at-risk students ... and they need our assistance.

Terry Rischel

Old tin toys, old radios. He has little soldiers, old board games, transistor radios, luggage, classic luggage. We have way more than what we could put in this studio so we could do this studio many times over with his collections.

Pat Flaherty

I think you've got to try to limit their touches as much possible which is difficult with their size. You have to try to keep them off the boards and out of the paint as much as possible, which is easier said than done.

Bobby Bowers

The (Florence County) delegation did them (Florence 1 board members) a courtesy giving them the right to come up with a suggested plan, but the delegation is the supreme school board.

Gregg Overman

What we have on the table is a proposal and the union board will debate, discuss and vote on it within the next few weeks.

Julian Kurtz

We had one board that wanted to charge us $7 a page. They will use any kind of delaying tactic imaginable.

Tom Meredith

While increasing student tuition is the last thing we want to do, it may be something the board will have to consider.

Trevor Linden

While I had hoped every member of the executive board would have submitted a vote, I have spoken with a few teams during this process that said they were going to wait to find out what happens with certain claims filed before the National Labor Relations Board and the Department of Labor. We are confident that these claims are without merit and will be withdrawn or dismissed in the near future.

Terry Turner

We need to demonstrate to the City Council and the Planning Board that we meet the parking (requirements).

Josh Boone

When we want to, we can put points on the board and we can stop people. It?s just a matter of us really focusing in on the game.

Susan Ward

Train your staff (if you have any) to be always helpful, courteous, and knowledgeable. Most importantly, give every member of your staff enough information and power to make those small customer-pleasing decisions, so he never has to say, "I don't know, but so-and-so will be back at..."

Susan Ward

The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did!

Stephen Leacock

All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.

Sol Stern

Pedagogy of the Oppressed resonated with progressive educators, already committed to a 'child-centered' rather than a 'teacher-directed' approach to classroom instruction. Freire's rejection of teaching content knowledge seemed to buttress what was already the ed schools' most popular theory of learning, which argued that students should work collaboratively in constructing their own knowledge and that the teacher should be a 'guide on the side,' not a 'sage on the stage.'

Stanley Kubrick

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

Tammy Faye Bakker

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

Sylvia Porter

Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.

Sigrid Undset

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

Shirley Hufstedler

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

Dan Hopkins

With the kind of support he sees around the state, he thinks it would be something important to enact.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.

Jerome Forneris

You're truly a star after you've been able to do whatever it is that you do for at least three years,

Damon Lindelof

Star Wars' is a galaxy a long time ago, far, far away. 'Star Wars' is not about our future.

Brian Chesky

I think the next big thing in music, and it's kind of because I come from the tech industry, is actually, I think it's the platform... Spotify is incredibly interesting. I think the platform is becoming the star.

Boethius

Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.

Andy Cohen

Susan Lucci was the biggest star in the daytime galaxy, and she served it up hot and fresh and chic five days a week. Before there was Joan Collins's Alexis Morrell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan on 'Dynasty,' there was Erica Kane Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Montgomery Montgomery Chandler Marick Marick Montgomery on 'All My Children.'

Andrea Hirata

Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.

Andrea Gibson

If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.

Andrea Bocelli

Like stars across the sky, we were born to shine.

Willie Smith

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