Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Westerfeld

Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.

Tommy Chong

Boredom is a disease, too.

Jack O'Neill

Never in the history of boredom has anyone been more bored than I am right now.

Ian Fleming

Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.

Jess Walter

I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to 'American Idol.'

Anna Popplewell

I don't want to play the same character seven times. I think people would probably get bored of it.

Ellen DeGeneres

I like to try new things because I get bored so easily.

Mary Harron

I'm bored by films that revolve around a trick. I kind of know if a film is right for me; all the most important decisions are made intuitively.

Mark Batterson

If you're bored, one thing is for sure: You're not following in the footsteps of Christ.

Tim Burton

I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references"

Alan Watts

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

Bob Gill

There's nothing in my head that's worth anything at all because it's the culture that put it there.

David Bentley

The truth of no truths becomes, inevitably, truth: a way of naming being, language, and culture that guards the boundaries of thought against claims it has not validated.

Cynthia Ozick

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

Peter Selley

This sale will be a truly exceptional event. With the exception of the great spiritual leaders, his influence on Western culture is more profound than any individual who has lived.

Billie Armstrong

We were watching things unfold, surrounded by all that was going on in the news and pop culture. I wanted to say the most controversial (things) I could while still keeping the songs smart and articulate. And there's a sense of humor there, which makes it more inviting than if I were just pointing fingers.

David Holland

We're all delighted to be enshrined in one of the icons of pop culture. Yow! Are we having fun!

Richard Berner

I don't think there's any doubt that the uncertainty over Iraq has been corrosive, but it's by no means the only factor hindering growth. The hope that if you take away that uncertainty and you unveil a coiled spring is probably overdone.

Dick Vitale

I don't think there's any doubt that he's one of the 15 top players in the history of the ACC.

Bill Peterson

I don't think there's any doubt nonpartisan races today have become very partisan. I don't think that's a particularly good development. But we're just going to have to live with it, because I don't think it's going to go away.

John McCain

I don't think there's any doubt as to who will prevail,

Nizar Hamdoon

I don't think there's any doubt about that ... especially in the corridors of the Security Council.

Ken Simonson

I doubt you'll feel it (rising costs) much,

Judge Pat

I doubt very seriously we're going to get to trial before the first of the year.

Aaron Brooks

I doubt very seriously I will be a New Orleans Saint again, so I can look forward to moving on.

Jonathan Plucker

I doubt they are as willing as they are telling us, though.

Annie Proulx

No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.

Erykah Badu

The Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

Doug Nelson

When we saw the site come up for sale, we said we've got to be part of this.

Orla Brady

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

Reid Scott

I actually started as a director, but then I saw Mark Ruffalo in 'You Can Count on Me,' and I thought to myself, 'I want to do that.'

Tim Ritchey

When I saw him this morning, he said 'hi' to me, and I said 'hi' to him.

Dominik Hasek

When I saw him in training camp, he didn't look like a special player,

Bob Baffert

When I saw 22, I thought that wasn't bad. I didn't want to see 21. She's so fast.

Ruth Rendell

I don't like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether.

Daniel Roselle

But the more I thought about the questions, the more contradictions I saw in the leaders' answers. It was a semantic song and dance.

Angelina Jolie

When I was little... I didn't relate to princesses. I saw Maleficent, and I just thought she was so - she was so elegant.

Oswald Chambers

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

John Dewey

What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core of teaching.

John Dewey

Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It enlarges and enlightens experience; it stimulates and enriches imagination; it creates responsibility for accuracy and vividness of statement and thought.

John Dewey

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.

John Dewey

I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.

John Dewey

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

John Dewey

As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.

John Dewey

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

John Calvin

If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and that it is impossible for any man to obtain even the minutest portion of right and sound doctrine without being a disciple of Scripture.

William Bass

No, ... That's just how it turned out.

Michael McMillian

When I approached Volume 1 of Lucid, I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues, or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show.

Giuliana Rancic

I love trainwrecks on live TV.

Lara Pulver

I'd love to have my own TV show, in the way that Julianna Margulies has 'The Good Wife,' or a lovely ensemble show, like 'Six Feet Under.

Bobby Flay

I spend 80% of my time in my restaurants. Taping my TV shows doesn't take much time, and then they get aired a lot. That's the thing people don't realize.

Bill Gates

You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.

Jane Elliot

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.