Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Friedman

There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here's what some new studies are also showing: We need better parents. Parents more focused on their children's education can also make a huge difference in a student's achievement.

Giles Foden

The search for inventive ways of telling the tale of Christ's birth has been going on a long time; in a way, difference was there from the start with Luke and Matthew.

Rick Garcia

The political world now recognizes that there is a gay and lesbian vote. Our numbers are significant and we can make a difference in these races.

Brittany Snow

If I don't like what I'm wearing, you can see it on my face in any picture right away. It makes a big difference when you feel like you're wearing your style, and it's something that you picked out, or you feel really good in it.

Benjamin Rush

Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.

Bill Bryson

I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.

Scott Pischea

That was huge. We started hitting some free throws towards the end and that was the difference in the game.

Larry Wall

That was huge, in a 7-7 game to give us great field position. That was probably the difference in the football game right there.

John Baldwin

That was the difference tonight, levels. We've been getting the same levels all season, but not here.

Thucydides

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Ismail Kadare

Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.

Emile M. Cioran

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Common

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

Bruno Senna

One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions.

Beeban Kidron

The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom.

Benjamin Franklin

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

F. Sionil Jose

In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

Benjamin Rush

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Yanis Varoufakis

Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

Wayne Rooney

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Viswanathan Anand

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

Randy Petersen

The policy doesn't look overly generous, but right now this is the only game in town.

Age Hareide

The points mattered more than anything tonight. The results in the other games went our way, and now we can travel to Belarus knowing that we are in the play-offs. I hope our luck continues.

Malcolm Jenkins

The Penn State game was crazy. There were like 110,000 people there, and they were ready for it.

Ted Young

The pat on the back (for winning the regular season) is gone. The first do-or-die games for the girls are (today) and on Saturday for the boys. Everything you've worked for is gone on Saturday if you're not prepared for it mentally or physically.

Nolan Bushnell

'Pong' hit the fancy. It was sort of the perfect storm of a game which has two players highly social, a game that women could play better than a guy, and sort of an acceptance of this social nature of games in a bar.

Joe Crawford

We have a lot to prove. Every game we lost I think we should have won. We need to play hard in the SEC Tournament to make the NCAA Tournament.

Venus Williams

If you look at me, I'm very tall but I'm not huge or muscular. I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.

Yehuda Berg

It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.

Steve Marks

The overall perception was that it would take a year or two to get the problems ironed out. It is a huge endeavor, and we realized it would take time.

Brittany Snow

I love hanging out with my friends; I love to run. I box. I'm a huge movie buff.

Brittany Snow

I am a huge fan of Reese Witherspoon, and I always get told that I look like her little sister. So I would love to play her little sister one day.

David Steinberg

And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.

David Cross

I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate.

Brent Cahill

That was huge. That was a quality team we beat. We've got some tough kids, and it's a tough group. For us, this is huge for our confidence.

Jason Tapp

That was huge knowing there was a minute to go and we kept them at their end.

John Hogan

If I had to predict, I would say that this year, 2005 to 2006, was probably the worst of it, in terms of the percentage increase. Things seem to have stabilized a little bit.

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Jay Speer

There is a very small percentage of dealers we're worried about. But they can do a lot of damage.

Abdullah A. Badawi

The question is what is an appropriate percentage of the equity,

Walt Jocketty

I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy.

Jeff Judkins

Since I've been here, we've never had six teams in the (Ratings Percentage Index) top 60. I think that says a lot for our conference.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

Kevin McCarthy

That was thrown on us, so we'll look at it and see which way we go about doing it.

Mike Conroy

We've had lefties thrown at us all year. We're used to it now.

Cliff Lee

Mostly, I was throwing fastballs and locating them.

Rand Paul

William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.

Yasmin Sewell

You can even throw them in the washing machine.

Pete Eliades

I thought if I did big increments, I'd throw him off. I just started him up, and he couldn't stop.

Mack Brown

Justin's really good. He's big and strong. And he can throw it all over the lot,

Gregg Brandon

We don't have Omar anymore. We know Omar can throw a lot of touchdown passes. We don't know that about our quarterbacks now.

Henry Beard

You can often wash your troubles away with the right kind of bath. Throw everything you have into the tub: bubble gels, bubble oils, bubble powders, bubble gum.