Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Gurdon

I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted.

Kevin McAvoy

He was a huge help. He got me used to what the kids are expecting. I just came up with an open mind and the guys accepted me.

Shannon Flaherty

His money hasn't come from the 22nd District. His Democratic values aren't accepted by the 22nd and neither will he.

Paul Moskal

I think it's fairly close. It's accepted as state-of-the-art science, and it's very powerful evidence in that it's science as opposed to personal opinion.

John Breaux

I think anything that is perceived as parliamentary maneuvering to get out of this is not going to be accepted by the American public, ... It's going to have to be out front. It's going to have to be fair.

Steve McClaren

I was very surprised, very shocked and very disappointed. Really, it was accepted reluctantly on our behalf. But as always, you only want players who are happy here, who want to play for your football club, and Mark has made it known he wants to move on, so we have reluctantly accepted that.

Bill Schwartz

I went through a challenging review process by the school's review committee. They offered me the job, and I accepted it.

Lupita Nyong'o

I went to an all-boys high school, and they accepted girls in only the two A.P. classes.

Madeline Albright

I was 11, and I do remember being very excited, but also a little scared, because I did not know whether I would be accepted in this new land,

Daniel Greenberg

But, neither of these educational scenarios worked for us, so when we started a family, we wanted a different school for our children. And the other founders felt the same way.

Daniel Greenberg

I'm not too worried about that. I am a big believer in modeling.

Morrie Schwartz

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.

James Lipton

I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

Leland Stanford

It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.

Booker T. Washington

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

Betty Dodson

If we could grow up knowing that the genitals are beautiful parts of our bodies, we'd be proud, we wouldn't have shame, we wouldn't have sexual guilt.

James Lipton

I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are so many high school students who are not interested in going to a four-year college to be a doctor or lawyer but who want to learn a trade,

Mitch Ashmore

God loves baseball. It's not a real big deal. The colleges and pros they all play on Sundays.

Kenny Chesney

He's a school teacher in the Knoxville school system and has been for a long time. And even though I didn't live with my dad, and mom says we're just alike, talk alike, walk alike, and we definitely look a lot alike...but he's very, very supportive of what I'm doing. One thing that dad did, even though I wasn't living with him, he helped me pay for college and that was a really cool thing,

Elizabeth Davis

When I am finished college, I am moving to another state where tax dollars are well spent, ... In the meantime, I will be sure to vote for ..people who will recognize true problems in our state such as our poor education system and high property taxes, not how many more thousands of dollars they can pocket for nothing.

F. Stone

I thought the whole world was like Midland College in those 10 years, and when I left I found out the rest of the world wasn't like that at all.

Thad Schultz

I thought she could go in and be a fine college swimmer. Her future is right in front of her.

Tony Skinn

I think we've done something tremendous for college basketball. We showed that all you need is opportunity, a chance. Then you just go out there and play great basketball. I'm definitely happy I was a part of something special.

Tony Skinn

I think we've done something tremendous for college basketball, for the teams that are out there that watched us play, you know, just to show them that all you need is opportunity and a chance.

Tony Skinn

I think we've done something tremendous for all of college basketball. We showed the other teams out there that all you need is opportunity and a chance, and you can do something very special.

James Cox

I think it's a good idea. The Bangor School System is the gold standard as far as education goes, at least in this part of the state.

Fred Wilson

He's a wonderful person if for no other reason than the education piece.

Martin O'Malley

There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.

Ernest Hollings

There is no education in the second kick of a mule

Aaron Blake

I think this year we are really focusing on education, ... We need to embrace those who set out to harm our community, because really something is wrong with them.

Russell Baker

How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high grades? Year after year we listen to these fellows tell us that it is not the grade that counts but the development of the child's personality. After the lecture they go back to all the best schools and reject our children because they have C averages.

Ruben Blades

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Tryon Edwards

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.

Tryon Edwards

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Joe Girardi

I would say that it is a good probability.

Charles Sanders

I would suspect the possibilities are good we would do that. That's the way you increase interest in the lottery.

Charles Sanders

I would suspect the possibilities are good we would do that.

Jon Escamilla

I wrestled like I used to. I was good on my feet, and on top, I was getting a lot of turns.

Sean Reilly

I would view it as good news, and I would view it as information that we can use to get on with planning our lives.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Thomas Needham

He seems to be a very highly regarded young man.

Bob Trezise

It is a highly unique and 21st century-like company, like the type that we'd like to inspire here in the Lansing area. They can go other places in the country.

Bill Carroll

This is a highly anticipated show and it should be. She's a bigger-than-life character,

Steven Galson

This is a very highly innovative product that will improve the quality of life for millions of Americans with diabetes.

Alan Ackerman

The world is looking for lower interest rates. Clearly, the psychology world-wide remains highly nervous.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day

Aliza Sherman

Not every website has that kind of success. We just have a highly targeted audience,

Grady Fuson

No telling where our system may be when he comes back. Obviously, we think highly of him, so, hopefully, there will be a spot.

Margaret Atwood

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.

Terry Pratchett

They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.

Rainbow Rowell

I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe…and probably a period. I’m a huge fan of punctuation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The lover of letters loves power too.

Karen Joy Fowler

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

John McPhee

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

Jill Thomas

The request-for-donation letters didn't get out in time.

Bryan Callen

Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.

Curt Johnston

Unfortunately, it seems like there are always winners and losers with this kind of decision. They'll probably write letters to the editor, tell us how stupid we are, and tell us we don't listen to the public.

Kim Il-sung

Everything is decided bya person's thoughts and if he is ideologically motivated, there is nothing he cannot do.

Peter Drucker

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

Craig Manning

We were motivated and started off well, but we just wore down. They were just too strong for us today.

Anselm Kiefer

But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result.

Eric Hoffer

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

Gene Miller

The students are coming, and we're going to have to do something to accommodate the growth.

Sathya Baba

The teachers of tomorrow are the students of today.

Peter Flynn

We want students to take these tests very seriously,

MaryEllen Elia

We have a way to go with our 12th-grade students.

Robert Fripp

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

Renee Fleming

I was always a very good student.

Ray Romano

I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

Sam Raimi

I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.