Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Lynes

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

William Zinsser

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.

William Jennings Bryan

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

William James

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

Roger Ascham

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Robert Scheer

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

Robert M. Hutchins

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

Salvador Dali

I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.

Salman Rushdie

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

Dan Rottenberg

There are still places where people think the function of the media is to provide information.

Myles Munroe

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

Dr. Ratnathicam

His intestinal function has not returned to normal and we're taking the appropriate steps to make sure that it does.

Louis Aragon

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.

John Sicher

These products are sold on function more than taste.

Quentin Crisp

My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous.

Rob Smith

It's a function of the number of students that come in, and we need to plan for the housing of those students.

Lauren Gelman

It's a functional test: Is what you are doing journalism?

Ralph Nader

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Rebel Wilson

I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.