Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Favre

Most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

Ben Okri

We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.

Barbara Kingsolver

The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Babe Ruth

If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.

Baruch Spinoza

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Augustine Birrell

Is this true or only clever?

Augustus Hare

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.

Auguste Rodin

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Lisa Murray

collaborative education is a better way to learn.

Dianne Cox

Special education kids are always going to struggle with that accountability piece because special education kids are in the program because they have learning disabilities,

Richard Kouri

Public education is probably already the most transparent and accountable of any government system. When do we start talking about resources?

Sathya Baba

The root is education and the fruit is virtue.

Juan Felipe Herrera

I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms.

Tippi Hedren

I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career... I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures.

Janice Smith

The risk factors are the key reasons a person would use drugs. A kid could have all the information about drugs, but if they're not keyed in to the risk factors, they could still use. The regular school programs that incorporate drug education are not as intense as this one.

Joy Smolnisky

This isn't how education is supposed to be funded.

Marcal Young

A large part of scouting is about outdoor education.

Jesse McCartney

I've been reading script after script after script,

James Sturm

I've been collecting, reading 'Peanuts' since I was five,

Brandon Sanderson

Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.

Ben Mezrich

Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome.

Barbara Kingsolver

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

Augusten Burroughs

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

Azar Nafisi

We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading. And if we do so, our reward is the discovery of the many hidden layers within these works that do not merely reflect reality but reveal a spectrum of truths, thus intrinsically going against the grain of totalitarian mindsets.

Ayn Rand

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

Jan Karon

Are you reading your Bible?" Ah, well...I was." And then you quit." You got it." Then, you can expect to be weak on one of your flanks, and that's precisely where the Enemy will come after you with a vengeance.