Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Lynes

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

William Zinsser

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.

William Jennings Bryan

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

William James

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

Roger Ascham

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Robert Scheer

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

Robert M. Hutchins

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

Salvador Dali

I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.

Salman Rushdie

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

Angel Carter

Just like i said before, I am not into the acting or instrumental like the others, and I have NO idea what I want to be when I grow up, I am just. . me!

Geoff Brown

It affected me a lot how people can just biff these helpless little kittens away. They are acting no better than animals themselves.

Donna Hughes

I think it is sad, the way those two are acting and the kind of example it is setting for our children. I think they are both acting childish.

Michael Brown

He was acting irrationally. He was acting in a rage, an explosive rage.

James Denton

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

Christy Romano

I think what's going to happen is if - when - I progress further into the acting community, I want to have much more of a public stance on any issue.

Lars Trier

I think some of the acting scenes with Bjork look beautiful. Yes, to me, they are beautiful, but I am quite fond of Bjork.

Christopher Reeve

I was worried that only acting with my voice and my face, I might not be able to communicate effectively enough to tell the story, ... But I was surprised to find that if I really concentrated, and just let the thoughts happen, that they would read on my face.

Robert Palmer

I was acting out of the good of the people of the High Bar section of the township,

P. T. Barnum

I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.

Dirk Bogarde

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

George Papandreou

I never thought of politics as a profession.