Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juvenal

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]

Coco Chanel

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

Charles R. Swindoll

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

E. B. White

We wanted to be up to par. That's one of the things Scotty taught us over the years. We've got to play together to have success.

Cory Monteith

Fox taught me how to sing and dance

E. B. White

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

Douglas Coupland

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

Ani Difranco

They taught me different was wrong.

Chuck Palahniuk

Find value in what we've been taught is worthless.

John Vessey

You have to set your "shove-it" tolerance someplace. But you also have to recognize that you, too, may be wrong, and that in two weeks' time you'll be "old what's-his-name" and won't be able to influence the situation at all.

Andrew Stanton

I almost feel like it’s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.

Curtis Hanson

Rob Lowe, who I thought was really good in the movie [ Bad Influence], had his performance overshadowed by this sort of tabloid approach to him and the movie.

Ambrose Bierce

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

Robert Harris

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

Tony Robbins

The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.

Thomas Harris

You cant reduce me to a set of influences.

Scott Weiland

Bowie's obviously my biggest influence.

Steven Morrissey

You are bound to pick up influences.

Stephenie Meyer

Jacob was a gift from the gods.