Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Cassell

We're just the same old Clippers. That's all we are. We're just the same old Clippers. We want teams to continue to take us lightly.

Karolyn Grimes

Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.

James Rubin

But we have made clear, while we recognize the territorial integrity of Iraq, that we think it's important and appropriate for us to meet with ... Kurdish officials in northern Iraq, and we will continue to do so as we see fit.

Stanley Asumnu

Just getting wins. Wins are the most important thing. They (fans) want to look at that win column. So far we're doing a good job. We just have to work hard and continue to be successful each day.

Mark Reed

Standards are going to continue to rise as we learn more. It's our moral and ethical obligation to meet all those.

Steven Cohen

It is critical that the Legislature continue its longstanding track record of funding reform.

John Roth

Looking forward to 2001, we expect the overall market to grow in excess of 20 percent. Given our strong market position and industry-leading networking solutions, we expect to continue to grow significantly faster than the market, with anticipated growth in revenues and earnings per share from operations in the 30 to 35 percent range.

Kathy Langston

It feels great. I think they were a little more relaxed today. It's hard to teach them to forget about the last point and move on, but they did that today. We're hoping that will continue into next week.

Carlos Beltran

It feels 60 percent and it?s not enough for me to go out there and play. I can run but not full speed, and playing in the outfield is no good. I feel like I?m getting better since the day it happened, it?s improving and I just want to continue to improve.

Bethany Koch

We have one more step. We've been waiting for this game. We just have to realize this is it. Our season is going to be over by (next) Saturday, win or lose. We have to get our heads straight.

Adrian Schmidt

The performance was stronger than the headline numbers suggest. It suggests that manufacturing is accelerating.

Michael Franti

After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do.

Maya Angelou

At our best, we're all teachers

Meg Whitman

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

Maria Montessori

The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.

Nick Harkaway

People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you're a teacher you're in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they're old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern. Religion? So long as you don't actually think about it. Otherwise some furious mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch.

Michael Jackson

The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote.

Herbert Spencer

Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts in his memory in a way that no mere information heard from a teacher, or read in a schoolbook, can be registered.

Ellen Barkin

I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

Sandra Cisneros

I was reading Emily Dickinson and Edwin Arlington Robinson, but these weren't the poets that influenced me. I think Gwendolyn Brooks influenced me because she wrote about Chicago, and she wrote about poor people. And she influenced me in my life by giving me a blurb. I would see her in action, and she listened to every single person. She didn't say, "Oh, I'm tired. I gotta go." She was there, and present, with every single person. She's one of the great teachers.

Rory Bremner

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.