Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Kingston

Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.

Alex Grey

It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.

Albert Shanker

It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.

Debi Thomas

I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.

E. L. Konigsburg

There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character.

E. L. Konigsburg

Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it

E. M. Forster

School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.

Drew Carey

The economy is in trouble, schools are in trouble, and people have been leaving the city in droves for a long, long time.

Doug E. Fresh

I was probably like 13 years old, 14. And I used to walk home doing the beatbox from school. That's how I created it. There was no walkmans back then, no iPods, no CDs. There was just me. Back then there was the boom box.

Calvin Coolidge

We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!

Arthur Schopenhauer

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

Rick Carlisle

There's a feeling that our players are misinterpreted and a little misunderstood because of various factors. Dress would be one of them. As a league, we know we have good people. We have great guys on our team. . . . I feel like what our team did last year (after the brawl) is a much better indicator of the character and quality of people in our league than anything else people might want to surmise in terms of perception.

Pete Carroll

There's no question he stepped out of character so we have to help him. We went through it the way that we do it. We considered all the circumstances and how remorseful the guy was.

G. H. Hardy

We teach our guys it's all about character and class and we showed a lot of both.

Tom Powers

We just put on an unbelievable four minutes of defensive pressure. It just showed such tremendous character and heart.

Craig Brehon

We showed so much character this tournament, and it'll help even more later in the season. Rallying back Friday night (for a 49-48 victory over Booker T. Washington) and then coming back like this tonight will help us in the district.

Earl Calloway

We showed character and we showed fight. We got down, and we still continued to fight and lost by eight.

Donna Mills

I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.

Marc Almond

I've always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life.