Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bud Schmidt

I think the language to open it up to 'him' or 'her' language is important to do to keep the charter up to date.

David Ernst

We think that it's time for a moratorium on new charter schools so that we have an opportunity to take stock to see how those charter schools that have been in existence fare.

Kurt Spitzer

It's hard to make generalizations about what a charter does because you don't know until you see it in writing.

Phil Andrews

It's parents who most commonly start charter schools. So the community gets to decide what kind of school will most meet the neighborhood's needs.

David Brehm

That is on the horizon. There is no doubt about it. A charter would provide a little more flexibility.

Richard Boucher

Its charter says that they should explain U.S. government policy and present responsible discussion about it. We don't consider Mullah Omar to be responsible discussion.

Gary Larson

Its clear that as long as this demand continues, then charter schools will continue to thrive,

Brian Kulpin

They are more of a charter company than a schedule service carrier.

Peter Murphy

Opponents of charter schools will be quick to draw the conclusion that charter schools aren't pulling their weight, but that's not fair,

Diana Oblinger

I would surmise that the single most common characteristic of learners today is being time-constrained.

Ali Khan

What we've seen is what we would expect. Infectious disease outbreaks are not common following hurricanes.

John Prescott

have a great deal in common and a lot to discuss.

Jed S. Rakoff

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

Rob Bell

That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things...

Vladimir Putin

We had a very good situation in 2005. The common budget had a volume of 80 billion dollars per year. Thousands of jobs were created in Germany by Russian investments. At the same time, a large number of German companies invested in Russia. There were countless cultural and social contacts.

William Kingdon Clifford

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

Sam Altman

The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever.

William Hazlitt

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

Keisha Brown

John knows what it takes to win and be a leader. He has the desire to win and he always steps up as a leader. Sometimes in the locker room, I don't need to say what needs to be said because John has already done it for me.

Chris Gordon

J.R. expressed a desire to be a part of something on (The Team) again.

Sigi Schmid

He is the type of player that has a tremendous desire to win. He needs to be an example to our younger players. He needs to be a vocal player, but he can't do any of that until he gets on the field, so first he needs to get healthy.

Gerard Hopkins

I have desired to go / Where springs not fail, / To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail / And a few lilies blow,

Sam Baker

I discussed with Nate our desire for him to remain as the voice of the Eagles. I was disappointed when he respectfully declined.

William James

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

Richard Krajicek

Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire

Trey Parker

I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.

Ulysses S. Grant

I desire the good-will of all, whether hitherto my friends or not.

Tony Raines

Knowing how we ran early in the race and how I think we could have run, I was disappointed. But at the same time, I went there knowing I was going to race for a finish. I didn't race anybody.

Mike Ledsome

Katie was ready to go (Thursday). She got into a groove early and started hitting her spots and pitching stronger as the games progressed.

Rich Brands

Just looking at their results, I think it will be a pretty even match. We want to come out and not make any mistakes early on. We want to try and exploit some of the free kicks and throw-in stuff we've been working on.

Ben Gordon

Just like Tuesday (against Dallas) we struggled early and in the second half we were able to make a run. It was just a little to late.

Isaac Stern

His style of playing, particularly in his early years, was a stunning patrician elegance with a very natural musical line which fitted the style of whatever composition.

Ned Yost

His workload has been real heavy. To be thrown into that, even though you're big and strong, it's still a little early to have that type of pressure put on you.

Tina Deese

Holly pitched well again. It's a shame we couldn't get the victory for her tonight. We'll have to go out and get a win in Pensacola tomorrow night. I'm really impressed with the way Holly has thrown this early in the season.

Ben Dell

It could be better than the Barnett. It's in the early days, and I don't think the investment community's really woken up to that yet.

Quincy Lewis

I thought we showed heart getting back in the game. We lost the game early in the third quarter.

Ricardo Zuniga

We're doing all we can do to facilitate the recovery of the deceased from the city.

Jake Barton

People come to museums for storytelling and engagement, and the technology needs to facilitate that.

Kofi Annan

will be to consolidate and facilitate the cease-fire.

Al Borges

We can always facilitate not having a pure fullback. We'd rather have a guy that can give us the type of productivity that (departed senior) Jake Slaughter did, but if we don't, then we'll go to Plan B.

Forrest Bird

In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.

Lori Garver

Human space flight is not the only game in town at NASA.

Kit Carson

He had the intent to shoot and a flight plan set up in advance,

Umberto Guidoni

And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.

Margot Robbie

It's just terrible: I miss flights all the time, more than I probably catch one.

Jan Woodford

There was notification just before dusk that there was some concern. Our helicopters . . . fly during the day, so it was past the normal check-in time for the flight plan.

Sergei Krikalev

We want to say thank you, all of you. We are waiting for this flight for very long years, more than two years already.

Punky Moore

What's in this for us is it gives us a new way to monitor some of our fires. You don't always want to put people in those areas, and it reduces the number of flights we have to make to get a good picture of what's happening.

Rick Edwards

The successful GTV flight is a major milestone for APKWS II. Our previous successful ballistic test vehicle flights and the many tests that led up to these were all important, but here, we were trying to hit a target for the first time and we did it.

Francesca Schiavone

It was very tough, but I was tired because I had problems with the flight and it took me 40 hours to get here from New York.

John Kessel

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Len Lichtenfeld

I suspect that there will be a significant interest in getting better tests into the mainstream.

Lisa Presley

Having kids was the smartest thing I've ever done. They're little sponges who come into the world with a clean, shiny slate and such pureness. I'm interested in having more kids.

Ron Hilliard

He should have a big year. He's been rated by Dennis McCarty as one of the top linemen in the state. Michigan State, Penn State and Rutgers are very interested in Dan.

Charles Davis

I think the perception is out there that FOI is a special interest of the press.

Eddie Campbell

I thought about this, I thought these people are ringing me about horror. I don't think I like horror, I don't think I'm interested in horror.

Sufjan Stevens

I think you should be suspicious when there's a lot of interest in what you're doing,

Sean McGowan

The people who are obviously most interested in it obviously went out and did it already. He doesn't even talk about it.

Iker Casillas

I thank Manchester for their interest but I want to remain here.

Greek proverb

It is not possible to step twice into the same river

Tomas Vokoun

I don't feel any pressure. I don't think this has got anything to do with pressure. Sometimes you just play really well, and then get in a slump. Now is the worst possible timing.

Robb Felton

I'd like to see them as soon as possible and get them out. I'm sure they're probably going crazy, they're not used to being in a kennel.

Richard P. Feynman

It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

Richard P. Feynman

So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No", I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely". At that he said, "You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?" But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

Bob Williams

If there was something someone wanted that we didn't have, we could usually get it for them in a day or two. We tried to make things as simple as possible for our customers. I think they appreciated that.

Jacques Chirac

I'll try as much as possible to be,

Jonathan Winters

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

David Pursell

It's possible (we'll see $4), but I don't think so.

Robert Southey

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

Publilius Syrus

The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.

Bertrand Russell

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

Dennis Prager

The Left is not interested in prosperity, it is interested in equality

Aristotle

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Matt Ridley

Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nostalgic for a simpler, slower time.

Carl Jung

Mine. I'm on my side.

Vincent Van Gogh

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides...

Salman Rushdie

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

John Callahan

It has three sides missing, but it has a roof,

Morgan Freeman

Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence.

John Buchan

Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.

Napoleon Bonaparte

God is on the side of the heaviest cannon.

Ellen Gustafson

As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global food system begged further investigation.

Eric Ripert

I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.

Steve Johnson

Democratic, market-oriented Taiwan is a thorn in its side.

Jason Wu

The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom.

Richard Paul Evans

I don't want to go to Peru. "How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

Rex Reed

Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.

Richard Burton

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.

Robyn Davidson

The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Virginia Woolf

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.

Sally Ride

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

W. C. Fields

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

James Purefoy

I have to travel a lot for work.

Jose Saramago

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.