Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edsger Dijkstra

There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.

Ruth Reichl

Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I'll take the great company any day.

Frank Smith

Learning is never aversive - usually we are not aware of it at all. It is failure to learn that is frustrating and boring, and so is having to attend to nonsensical activities.

Rachel Johnson

Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.

Diane von Furstenberg

Don't let any of your good habits get boring.

Chita Rivera

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.

Helen McCrory

There are a lot of little lessons that can be taught around the home without sitting a child down and boring them to death with your philosophy of life!

Dmitry Medvedev

The Cold War was a boring thing. Nobody gets better for it. Tremendous money is wasted. Our lives get more difficult. We look at each other as enemies. What's good in that? In any case, I will do anything in my power in order to stop another Cold War, with the U.S. or any other country in the world.

Luke Donald

We call him 'plod'. It's fairways and greens with Luke, he kind of plods his way around the golf course. He's a very boring player, which is a compliment in golf.

Margaret Johnston

Personally I am haunted by the irony that someone like Sheila, whose message to the world was all about nurturing, could have a child who would shoot her.

R. Laing

Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Jenny Nimmo

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

Dr. Ginott

I've come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.

Chris Duggan

It would help tie the entire structure of child development together.

Peter Persaud

The worst possible thing that could happen to a child happened in this case. I think for each one of you this is going to be a personal challenge.

Magnus Scheving

The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.

Jan Egeland

The world wakes up when we see images on the TV and when we see children dying,

Julius Rosenberg

This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.

Charles de Secondat

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

Carson McCullers

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

Daniel Handler

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

Coco Chanel

I have only one curiosity left: death.

Clark Gable

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

Bret McKenzie

At the end of your life, you're lucky if you die.

Bob Dylan

For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.

Blaise Pascal

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Mary Scott

Ten percent of our homes are now rentals. It's a big problem.

Dan Gallagher

These are the homes we need to address, because we know they are not going to do anything with them until we take action,

Dr. Denny

All are home now, and are recovering or have recovered.

Barbara Pym

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Arthur Marx

People would ask me, 'Is he as funny at home as he is in the movies?' ... I would have to answer, 'Well, he can be funny. But he is also very serious. He has insomnia and if we him up early, he would bawl the hell out of me'.

Jana Kramer

L.A. was never me. Nashville is my home.

Jamie Campbell Bower

I have an apartment back home in London. England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be. It's where my friends are.

Bob Dole

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

T. S. Eliot

Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

Sydney J. Harris

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

Thomas Jefferson

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

Richard Branson

Just start. You will learn so many lessons just by doing.

Taylor Mali

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

John Muir

God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons.

Philip Roth

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

Oscar Wilde

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

Aravind Adiga

I was looking for the key for years But the door was always open

Ben Nicholas

Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Babe Ruth

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ashley Smith

Live life messy and love every moment of it.

Baruch Spinoza

If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Barbara Sher

I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.

Auguste Rodin

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

History is full of surprises.

Barbara Kingsolver

So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what it said on the package; I kept it till I knew it by heart: 'Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.' That's kind of my philosophy about men. I don't think there's an installation out there that could use all my parts.

Baruch Spinoza

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

Augustine Birrell

History is a pageant and not a philosophy.

Ayelet Waldman

Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A Little Pregnant puts it, rather than as a philosophy, are less invested in our own practices. What we do is often less a matter of conviction than one of convenience. What we need to remember is that there is no need to apologize for that, even in the face of the most red-faced outrage.

Ayn Rand

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Brian Henson

And again, we're kind of trying to be in that place, that's just so absurd and irreverent and hysterical and it's something that at our company we're kind of, we're so irreverent about everything, we're sort of irreverent about the establishment, we're irreverent about civilization, we're irreverent about philosophy, we're irreverent about religion.

Brenda Song

I'd have to say I'm pretty adventurous. I just went to Shanghai for the Special Olympics and I tried dim sum. I'd never really had it before and some of it looked pretty scary, but I tried it anyway. My philosophy is, you're not going to know if you like it until you try it.

Jamie Sives

I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.

Janis Ian

Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free.

Amanda Lamb

Do you think it's a waste to have all this stuff sitting here?

Robert Anthony

Do something whatever you do, it will be better than sitting and hoping things will improve.

Soren Kierkegaard

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.

John Steinbeck

I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness.

Nora Roberts

Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula.

Mark Richardson

When walking, just walk. When sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble.

Mark Cuban

We all have a history of digital texts, posts, messages, reposts/tweets that are sitting out there and can be used by anyone for any reason.

Michael Jackson

I feel guilty just sitting around when I know I can be doing something.

Bulgarian Proverb

From walking - something; from sitting - nothing

Coco Chanel

There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.

E. B. White

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

Tom Robbins

You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement." "This movement of yours, does it have slogans?" inquired the Chink. "Right on!" they cried. And they quoted him some. "Your movement, does it have a flag?" asked the Chink. "You bet!" and they described their emblem. "And does your movement have leaders?" "Great leaders." "Then shove it up your butts," said the Chink. "I have taught you nothing.

Neil Gaiman

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

Plato

Is virtue something that can be taught?

Mark Twain

In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.

Kelsey Jakupcin

She taught me that winning as a team is more important than winning as an individual. It's all about the team.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.

Gordon B. Hinckley

God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.