Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

Alan Moore

This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?

Alan Moore

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

Alan Hansen

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

Alan Bean

Eventually there are going to be cities in space.

Alan Autry

A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley,

Alan Autry

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

Alaina Huffman

If youre a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities in what part of the world come out to see you. When youre on television, youre removed from that.

John Harder

It's exciting to be in the championship. I won six districts in a row. I had at least one Division 1 player. This year I don't. I have a hard hustling and working team. They just work, work, work.

Clayton Downing

A lot of the districts aren't going to have money to pay their teachers come July if they don't do something.

Ryan Gray

They've been on for a while, but it would be safe to say in recent years there's been more of a push. The school districts I've talked to do say it's helped with the discipline.

David Maroney

For many districts who are planning a high school, it will be the only new high school they are going to see in their lifetime.

Jenny Waters

It was inspiring that we could win districts once. To come back and not be big-headed and win it two more times I think is great.

Michael Shames

The municipal water districts should be playing not just provider of the water, but playing the water cops.

Don Siebert

Some school districts are at their maximum mill levy. They will see a 5.5 percent increase.

Ginger Reynolds

Schools and districts wouldn't face any sanctions because of the lateness of the tests.

Meg Casper

School districts should be back in better shape, back to where they were before the hurricanes hit.

David Hood

Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.

Nolan Sotillo

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

Carlos Castaneda

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.

Chanakya

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

Charles Handy

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

Charles Godfrey Leland

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

Beth Brooke

Setbacks are just learning experiences.

Bernard Malamud

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

Bill Watterson

Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson from how this utterly unique and exquisite crystal turns into an ordinary, boring molecule of water just like every other one when you bring it into the classroom. And now, while the analogy sinks in, I will be leaving you drips and going outside...

Charles Spurgeon

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Alan Rickman

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

Alan Alda

When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.

Denis Waitley

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

Bill Watterson

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

Buddy Guy

I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.

Edward Gardner

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.

Bill Frisell

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

Chelsea Clinton

I'm a big believer in listening to my body's cravings.

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

Robert G. Allen

We're mainly providing a place to sleep, shower and use restrooms.

James Lasdun

Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market for it.

Betty Buckley

There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

Bill Gates

The mainstream is always under attack.

Paulla Solar

As much I like my Heather, I think Jacquie was a main reason why we were champions.

Anatoly Rybakov

For a professional writer in the Soviet Union, it works this way. First, you have to have something to say - that's the main thing. Second, it's a matter of who publishes you. If your book has real stuff in it, readers will ferret it out, even in a Siberian journal.

Graham Cluley

It?s not the main reason, but one of the reasons is CAN-SPAM.

David Perkins

There was one main road ... packed for weeks, bumper-to-bumper... with U.S. convoys ... pushing toward Baghdad,

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

David Brooks

They're from a friend's house. Three streets away.

Mark Holleran

The street is a tough place to be.

Daphne White

Do we really want 6-year-olds to become street fighters?

Larry Nelson

Essentially, we are migrating to a 28-foot-wide street in all residential neighborhoods.

Simon McBurney

I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.

Alan Johnson

We were thinking Wall Street would be flattish for the year, but we fortunately may have undershot.

Darrell Sanders

We're taking it off the street one gram at a time.

M. John Harrison

Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

Jan Jones

We're just watching the legislation. We're not lobbying it. We're not negotiating.

Brenda Johnson

It was surreal, just watching her. But this wasn't her first rodeo.

Felipe Alou

It would've been worse if I was watching the game, but I didn't see any of it.

Pete Carroll

The whole world is watching us. You never feel you can say enough about this stuff.

Kenneth Warren

The whole country's going to be watching this.

Viggo Mortensen

there he is, I'm watching him, there he goes.

John Huber

We're just going to be watching and monitoring.

Betha Aris

I am still watching you as well Mr. Whitey!

Sandra Bullock

I feel like I always have someone watching my back.