Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott May

What we're really interested in doing is trying to figure out how we can help states and school districts infuse biotechnology concepts into teaching.

Eric Mann

It's one of the simplest concepts in sports television. It's just revealing names.

Jerry Williams

When I was approached I realized that this has to be the face of the future not only for education but also for the health of American children. If the concepts are proven, Rochester will consider expanding such an experimental environment in one of our elementary schools.

Lisa Gross

Specific test questions aren't released, they're very secure. But the concepts are well-known, so yes, we're teaching to the test.

Abelina Galustian

One day I'll get back to those concepts and materialize them on canvas.

Oscar Goodman

These were not simple concepts and the issues were complex. I think it has been a very worthwhile experience.

Martin Rees

And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists aren't always wrong. They remind us that a superintelligent machine is the last instrument that humans may ever design - the machine will itself take over in making further steps.

Sara Erichson

Engagement is one of the most important and challenging issues facing our clients, and one of the most talked about concepts in the industry today. Everyone wants to better understand how effectively messages are received and how program environment impacts the process. This project will provide new insights into the critical links between the programs and commercials.

Joshua Cohen

English, unlike Hebrew, is read from left to right - as are clocks. The concepts of clockwise and counterclockwise are universal, irrespective of alphabet.

Michael Moriarty

I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government - let's call it one man's idea of American freedom in exile.

Bill Thompson

The people who live there don't consider it a casino. It's a luxurious place to go for an evening out.

Jim Cicconi

The point is the industry itself shouldn't be straddled with constraints that many of our direct competitors don't have. We feel the number 30 percent isn't really justified. It's very, very arbitrary. We consider a number around 40 percent to be more appropriate given the economics in the industry.

Chris Hanson

We usually wait until an athlete's senior year to consider going to Arcadia.

Michelle Clark

We strive for excellence, and we empower women. We consider ourselves the ladies on campus.

Naylond Hayes

When you've been here, and you consider it your house, you're at home.

Grace Morgan

When you usher, you meet a lot of people who are not involved with the theater, but (who still consider it) a very big part of their lives, and love to see the shows,

Laurent Brancowitz

I always considered technical musicianship as something you should be ashamed of - I don't know why.

Hanya Yanagihara

I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.

Charles Dickens

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Charles Stanley

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

Alan Watts

Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

Alan Watts

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

Al Sharpton

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

Tawny Toering

When I was in elementary school I always looked up to high school students.

Pat Hamamoto

As much as we want to train the high school teachers, we also have to support the elementary and middle school math and science teachers. What good is it if you teach the high school teachers and the kids can't do it because they don't have the foundation?

Dorothea Shannon

All our new teachers are pretty evenly distributed between elementary and secondary schools.

Debra Robinson

It really is about increasing the rigor in elementary and middle school.

Rod Phillips

As a smaller elementary school, if they can get out there and do it, we should do well.

Richard Riley

Our elementary schools are getting better at teaching the basics,

Richard Bavaria

I've seen some kids as young as second or third grade use planners ... the very elementary planners. Letting kids see that a planner can help them get their projects done and organize their time at home can be very helpful.

Mark Thomson

I see that as a huge issue for all of us with high-functioning kids in elementary school.

Matt Rogers

I've been here K through 12, and we've all been playing together since elementary school. (Receiver) Mark Dillman moved here before freshman year, but other than him it's been us all the way.

Alan Ball

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

Barry Commoner

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

Barry Commoner

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

Barry Commoner

The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's resources and is responsible for that fraction of the total environmental pollution. But this statistic hides another vital fact: that not everyone in the U.S. is so affluent.

Barry Commoner

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

Barry Commoner

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

Rachel Carson

Those who love and free nature are never alone.

Hanno Langenhoven

Unlimited growth in a finite environment is impossible.

Jim McFarland

We're still not expanding in the right areas, ... We have a waiting list for nursing and we talk about expanding in other areas.

Robert Collins

We're hoping it is one of those things that will never be finished. We want to keep growing and expanding to have more facilities.

Petroleum Minister

This is a major step towards expanding the sphere of CBM exploration and production in India.

Michael Orchin

This has been an ever-increasing problem. Now it's expanding and they're turning up everywhere.

Miles Flint

This has been a good quarter for Sony Ericsson, proving that our strategy of expanding the product portfolio upward ... is paying off.

Cody Acree

It's not out of the realm of possibility that the second-quarter numbers could be strong enough to support the stock at a higher valuation, ... If you keep raising estimates, you probably could keep expanding the multiple.

Scott Olson

This particular security space has been expanding faster than any other security space right now.

Richard Rippe

It means manufacturing is expanding sluggishly and that's probably about what we want.

Cynthia Miller

It's a reasonable start. Once we get rolling we can look at expanding faster.

Charles Dickens

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

Al Madrigal

I'm always alone. Sad face emoticon.

Chris Hanson

We want to set the stage to be successful the rest of the season in Arizona. This is an opportunity to see new faces and gain some big meet experience.

Chris Cleave

At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.

Chin-Ning Chu

You must ingratiate yourself with those who can help you. Flatter them to their faces. Praise them to others who will carry your words back to them.

Edith Wharton

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

David Icke

The day is coming when even the most closed-minded ridiculers will have to face the truth.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[on Martin Freeman playing Bilbo Baggins] It was great. I got to hang out with him, and I kept a straight face for a bit and then I started giggling because I know Martin, I don't know Bilbo. For Martin to be sitting there playing Bilbo is amazing. He's going to be amazing, he's going to be fantastic in this film.

Barry Bonds

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

Charles Caleb Colton

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

Charles Simmons

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Alan Watts

What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.

Alan Watts

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Al Stewart

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

Chogyam Trungpa

Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

China Mieville

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

Dean Acheson

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Audre Lorde

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

Charles Dickens

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.

Charles Caleb Colton

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Charles Caleb Colton

The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

Charles Dickens

Walk and be Happy, Walk and be Healthy...

Charles Dickens

I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.

Charles Simmons

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

Chris Christie

They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.

Edmond de Goncourt

Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.

Edith Stein

One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

Matt Mullenweg

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

Jesse Spencer

All of my girlfriends have been actors, and I've realized that maybe it's not for me - and find something else outside of the industry.

Bob Denver

It was the mid-'70s when I realized it wasn't going off the air,

Clarence Curry

It's a business. I realized that after being through it for a year and a half. You don't get down. You never know when you can go to another team and be on their 53 (man roster).

Jim Taylor

After Andrew, insurers realized the premiums they were charging weren't enough,

Chris Browne

Some stuff fell. Before it hit, I realized it was a person who jumped.

Anthony Newley

I sleep till one, and I'm always surprised when someone in blue rinse on a talk show says, 'You're a genius, Mr. Newley, you do so many things.' Tony Newley never realized his potential, did the things he should have done.

Marcella Anderson

I shouldn't have trusted her. It was wrong, I've realized it now. But she was there, she was friendly, she was warm, someone I thought I could trust.

Scott Krueger

I used to live for basketball. I realized that's really not how I want to live my life.

Hasim Rahman

Absolutely. Right there on HBO. Rochester has been very instrumental in this championship.

Mark Greene

We did it in Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse.

Kent Gardner

Rochester has long been thought of as a manufacturing town. But it's not blue-collar manufacturing, it's white-collar manufacturing.