Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. Laing

Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Jenny Nimmo

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

Jack Horn

This is a serious problem nationally and statewide as well as in the county, ... Solano County has been particularly proactive, signing people up on various programs, particularly children with the SKIP program, but it's still a serious problem, no question about it.

Jonathan Jackson

You're probably saving money if you factor in the grief . . . of dealing with children in the supermarket. I think it will take off in the suburbs, particularly.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

Ben Marcus

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

Barbara Jordan

We must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker's child to miss school in order to earn...just so the family can eat. That is the moral bankruptcy that trickle-down economics is all about.

Baha'u'llah

O ye children of men! The fundamental purpose animating the Faith of God and His Religion is to safeguard the interests and promote the unity of the human race, and to foster the spirit of love and fellowship amongst men.

Larry Garrison

As far as I know I'm doing a book with him on the Jackson trial.

Demian Bichir

As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.

Sharon Chang

People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.

Mark Perakh

No relevant data which support hypotheses, laws, models and theories could be found in the papers and books by proponents of intelligent design, only unsubstantiated assumptions. Therefore, it can justifiably be viewed as pseudoscience.

Richard Curtis

Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.

Chipper Jones

Any win is important nowadays. Obviously, Philly has been playing well and their score was posted on the scoreboard before we started. They lost and we knew we had a golden opportunity to gain a game. We went out and did it. So it's two more off the magic number, whatever it is. It's probably 100. But nonetheless, it's another day in the books and we gained a game.

Richard Nash

These books now stand both as a testament to the resilience of the residents of New Orleans ... and as a map back from disaster, offered by the city's teenagers.

Ray Waddell

The Stones have written and rewritten the book on touring.

Nestor Aguila

The stock looks extremely good in terms of fundamentals, with a book value of 1.64 pesos per share.

Amity Gaige

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Boris Vallejo

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

Barbara Kingsolver

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

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

Benjamin Bratt

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

Carl Zimmer

Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved when we talk about evidence from fossils and DNA.

Alan Dershowitz

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa].