Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Schlosser

I was introduced to the world of modern food production in the mid-1990s, while researching an article about California's strawberry industry for the 'Atlantic Monthly.'

Saudi Arabia

King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz has chosen Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz as Crown prince in accordance with Article 5 of the basic system of government,

Jose Antonio Vargas

Kathy Dewar, my high-school English teacher, introduced me to journalism. From the moment I wrote my first article for the student paper, I convinced myself that having my name in print - writing in English, interviewing Americans - validated my presence here.

Rory Kennedy

I think it can be really powerful, and one of the reasons I love making films is I do feel they can reach beyond the statistics and the numbers and the complexities of a particular issue and really highlight the humanity in a way that an article or newspaper story might not be able to do.

J. Horton

It bothers me, because it's not on him. The team didn't perform like we should have. And to read articles about him like that makes me mad. I can't say the things I think when I read those things, but it really hurts me. It's gut-wrenching sometimes.

Scott Carswell

Heck, nobody wrote an article on us in five years and now we have people coming by practice to take pictures. This is all new to us. (Two-time state champion) Satellite Beach usually gets all the attention over here.

Katori Hall

I never, ever read the comments below an article on the Web. People are mean. I'm a human being.

Steve Outing

Here's an example: A series of car break-ins is occurring at trailhead parking lots in your area. A reporter writes a short article about the problem, identifying some of the locations of the vandalism. As a sidebar to the conventionally written story, trail users are invited to post their experiences of having their cars broken into, including submitting photos,

Albert Barnes

Whatever be the topic of conversation, the spirit of piety should be diffused through it - as the salt in our food should properly season it all, whatever the article of food may be (Col. 4:6).

Steve Saviano

(Kevin) is going to be a good goalie. I'm convinced of it. He's a big prospect for Carolina.

John Davis

He convinced us that he really wanted this job. He spent his life getting ready for a job like this.

Ozzie Guillen

He convinced me he was ready to go. We need this kid. ... Especially with the two teams we might play, New York or Anaheim, we need two lefties (in the bullpen).

Ozzie Guillen

He convinced me he was ready to go, ... We need this kid. ... Especially with the two teams we might play, New York or Anaheim, we need two lefties (in the bullpen).

Julian Kurtz

The only thing that convinced them to obey the law was when we hired (attorney) David Carrier - 'We are going to sue you' - that got their attention. I've found that virtually nobody wants to obey the law and that nobody wants to enforce the law.

Marty Whitman

Had he not been the leader who got this thing out of (Chapter) 11 in May 2003, there would have been nothing left for us pre-petition creditors. I'm firmly convinced that's the case.

Ralph Preston

Gold is telling us that not everyone is convinced inflation is in check.

Mike Cooke

I was convinced that this was a very, very good use of our time.

Eddie Sutton

I was convinced high school was the place for me.

Kelly Osbourne

They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

William Cowper

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

William Cowper

Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Clifford Longley

John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket.

John Krasinski

I taught English in Costa Rica before I went to college. I'm not an especially outdoorsy guy, but sometimes I would spot wildlife while whitewater rafting or walking in the rainforest at 5 A.M.

Graham Nelson

By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.

Graeme Le Saux

The first year I sold a photo to was a lady who thought I was a chef, for some reason. I've no idea why.

Graeme Le Saux

So it was a hard decision but I know it is the right one.

Thomas Sydenham

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.

Richard Gardner

By year end, Microsoft will have introduced a major upgrade to every one of its significant platform and application products.

Mario Batali

I just was introduced to the writings of Lucius Beebe, and I'm going to read him.

Drake Bell

I had the opportunity to do a movie with Roger Daltrey of The Who. In the movie, I played a guitar student. Since I had to learn how to play somewhat for the movie, I was introduced to the guitar.

Cameron Mackintosh

I'm proud of the fact that I've taken a lot of big directors, such as Trevor Nunn and Nick Hytner, who were musical virgins, and introduced them to the form.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'm going to make sure that it will be introduced again. ... And I know the legislators don't like it, but I will keep pushing.

Tommy Dolde

These kids get introduced to it in our Junior Olympic program.

Agnes Obel

I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.

John Hurt

Everybody, I think, that was in 'Harry Potter' was certainly introduced to an enormous lot of young people.

Martin Seligman

It used to be that whenever I introduced myself to people and told them I was a psychologist, they would shrink away from me. Because, quite rightly, the impression the American public has of psychologists is, 'You want to know what's wrong with me.'

Donna Norris

I would tell him the 'Bad Man' took her and did this to her. The name just kind of stuck.

Kendra Davis

Keep my ... wife's name out of your column. She's not a part of this team.

Diaa Rashwan

Here in Egypt, his name doesn't represent anything for us.

Greg Biffle

Have you ever seen that show, 'My Name is Earl?' ---- karma. It's really not playing fair.

Stephen Hess

His name is thrown into the mix. Big time.

Dontrelle Willis

His name is on the wall, that shows you what kind of player he was,

Kevin McClatchy

I think it's going to be a wide-open search. I think a lot of names will pop up.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Alex Jones

It’s…it’s easy to have some little bitty website and use a fake name and sit there and…you know…talk bad about Jews all day and enjoy yourselves…uh, you know…getting your kicks ’cause you live in, you know…a…a one room apartment and your mad at life or whatever and wanna blame us…you know.

Mary Carillo

His presence shows how much respect he has for her, and he's so deferential.

Paul Steidler

Law's very prominent presence in the Vatican this week is reopening a lot of old wounds,

Courtney Sims

I was just trying to be aggressive, and I just wanted to be a presence out there.

Gary Waters

He may be the strongest presence in the league. The thing he's doing consistently is rebounding.

Ra'anan Gissin

In the presence of his doctor, and upon his advice, he said he should be taken to the hospital.

Richard Zurek

I'm sure the U.S. would like to have a presence there.

Jeff Fisher

We're not done. Veteran presence is important to us.

Gene Johnson

It's probably time to have a presence on that corridor.

John Carlisle

They've started in earnest. There's a pretty strong presence out there now.

David Allen

If you want to publish on the web you don't need a print shop, or an editor, or a publisher. You can just slap it up yourself and wait for traffic.

Lars Trier

I'm much calmer. We had a lot of time problems going to Cannes. The print was ready one day before it was shown. Now I feel very good.

Darren Gibbs

It will be a while yet before we are printing better numbers.

Noam Chomsky

The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it for organizing.

Ken Bruen

I get through some print.

Peter Schiff

At some point, the dollar has to give. You can't just keep printing money, and monetizing debt, and buying bonds, without the dollar imploding.

Peter Schiff

It is production that creates purchasing power, not the printing press!

Jim Rogers

Most of my thoughts, you couldn't print.

John McGahern

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

Becky Lofstead

He was a 4-point student from what I understand. Just an outstanding student.

Steve Ferguson

What we want to do is make sure that students who come to Bloomington are already prepared.

Kenny Perry

He's a tremendous kid, a tremendous student of the game,

Michael Gargano

I thought the students were very respectful, and I'm very appreciative of their respect,

John Small

I think a lot of students don't want to give up their high-school experience. They are involved, entrenched in activities. But we tend to get some pretty high-performing students who don't have a lot of ties.

Heather Hillman

I think it was what we were expecting. I don't think it was what students were expecting.

Kevin Knight

I'd like to see every student be a part of their school, whether they are in sports, band, drama, or any other ac-tivity,

William Saroyan

Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.

Vincent Schiavelli

I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos.

Quentin Blake

I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.

Avi

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

Marjorie Brody

I think when the student's ready, the teacher appears.

Rita Ora

I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn't.

Anton LaVey

A friend of mine who was a founding father of the Church of Satan, who later I compared notes with, said when he was a kid, he too managed to get into Sallys Nude Ranch, and in the corral he saw his Sunday school teacher!!! That was a real epiphany for him. From that moment on he was a Satanist.

Rob Sheffield

Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.

Richard P. Feynman

Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naive ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.

Richard P. Feynman

You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answer their simple questions when they come into your office. You are not nameless to me. Do not remain nameless to yourself — it is too sad a way to be. Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.

Richard P. Feynman

I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher - a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned. But in our modern times we have so many students to teach that we have to try to find some substitute for the ideal.

Greg McDermott

In a lot of ways it validated our program.

Jennifer McMahon

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Randy Alcorn

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.

Carlos Fuentes

I wrote it to show that not all mother-in-laws are bad.

John Prine

I wrote it just to get my father's attention,

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.

Andre Holland

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

Alan Ball

I had no idea where I was going to go when I wrote the pilot,

Eddie Floyd

All I wanted to do was write songs, but all the things I wrote in Detroit, they put them out by different artists.

Natalie Babbitt

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.