Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Meehan

They allowed it to be physical, and that's just the way it is.

Tim Craft

We really got after them on defense. That allowed us to get off to such a quick start.

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

John Battelle

At the Web 2.0 Conference a year ago, we gathered to discuss the implications of the Web becoming a platform. This year, we're taking it further, focusing not just on declaring the platform, but showing where the innovation is happening and what we might expect in the coming year, ... Web 2.0 attendees will be immediately plugged into the ecosystem of the new Internet and allowed to make connections vital to their business strategy.

A. N. Wilson

We should have played better early on, but we just weren't aggressive. We let them change our strategy, and we shouldn't have allowed that. We had a hard time being patient. We could have played a lot better.

Mack Brown

What Penn State has allowed Joe to do is unusual. They've allowed him to hang in there through some tough years and just shows you that consistency is really, really important in college programs.

Debbi Fields

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best -- which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that success found me.

Gray Harrison

We got a little spaced out (in the second half), and that allowed him to get a few more touches.

Brian Roper

We got a little perimeter-oriented, which allowed them to become more and more aggressive.

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Jack Horn

This is a serious problem nationally and statewide as well as in the county, ... Solano County has been particularly proactive, signing people up on various programs, particularly children with the SKIP program, but it's still a serious problem, no question about it.

Barbara Mertz

Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

Ogden Nash

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

C. S. Lewis

But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.

C. S. Lewis

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

Celine Dion

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

Alan Keyes

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

Charles Churchill

Childhood, who like an April morn appears, Sunshine and rain, hopes clouded o'er with fears.

Chris Hill

The thing about the committee, and you get tired of telling people, is everything's independent. Every year's different. Every team's different. We go in with a clean slate every year.

Bruce Krall

I spent a lot of money and a lot of effort cleaning it up.

Bob Graham

We should first give the Syrians and the Lebanese the opportunity to clean up their own house, ... That is a more serious threat to the United States in my judgment than Saddam Hussein.

Daniel Radcliffe

I'm not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation.

Rachel Nichols

The thing I can't figure out is why I have an undeniable compulsion to clean public spaces, airplane bathrooms, restaurant flatware, hotel gyms and Chapstick containers... yet I have no desire to make my own bed. Ever. Seriously, who made me, and where am I from?

Jorge Chabat

The fact that Vicente Fox not only won by a wide margin in a clean election, but also represents another party different from the PRI makes him a more reliable partner,

Mack Bradley

We started working very seriously with police and the city. We are spending more money on security and clean up.

Kevin Spacey

When you're just able to distill it down to the idea and the feeling that a character is experiencing in a scene, it can become very, very razor sharp and really clean and really efficient and simple. And sometimes it takes twenty-five years to learn how to be simple.

Andy Kindler

Ever since I've switched to the clean syringes, I've never felt better in my entire life.

T. Harv Eker

The number one reason most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want. Rich people are totally clear that they want wealth. They are unwavering in their desire. They are fully committed to creating wealth. As long as it's legal, moral, and ethical, they will do whatever it takes to have wealth. Rich people do not send mixed messages to the universe. Poor people do.

Ray Kurzweil

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines were creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.

Steve Jobs

Life is about creating and living experiences that are worth sharing.

Dore Gold

Setting them on fire isn't a way of creating a new environment for a hopeful future.

Haim Ramon

I am sorry that the Palestinians are always creating a crisis when Secretary Albright visits the area.

Tim Sanders

Basically, likeability comes down to creating positive emotional experiences in others, ... When you make others feel good, they tend to gravitate to you.

Mike Colter

I'm always game for creating a new character, and I liked the idea of putting something new into the 'Halo' universe.

Jon Alterman

No one really knows what the endgame will be. Our difficulties are creating strong national institutions, and it's a growing problem.

Robert Bork

My guess would be he will not participate in creating new constitutional rights

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Bruce Barton

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Edward Abbey

What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

Anna C. Brackett

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

Adlai Stevenson

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

D. H. Lawrence

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

Clarence Darrow

You can only be free if I am free.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Alice Walker

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

Frank Billingsley

This is one more reason to be downtown, in buildings, parks and public areas. It also sends a message that this is a progressive community.

Andy Stanley

Environments are the messages before the message.

Sue Grafton

There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.

Sue Monk Kidd

It's your time to live, don't mess it up.

Johnny Depp

If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different.

Markus Zusak

I'm not the messenger at all. I'm the message.

Carl Crawford

If we were playing a team that wasn't in it we'd still want to win. I don't want to say we like messing up their plans. I'm not trying to stir up nothing on the other side.

Christopher Klaus

If we in the U.S. can't protect ourselves, what message does that send to the rest of the world?

Jay Griffiths

As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

Mir Hossain

Enough is enough. The manufacturers must show some respects to their workers by complying with safety rules.

Angelo Scola

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

Sparky Anderson

A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.

Val Kilmer

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

Vaclav Havel

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

Sophie Swetchine

Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.

Rumi

We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect.

Rumi

Whoever acts with respect will get respect.

Rigoberta Menchu

I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward the elimination of any expression of discrimination against indigenous peoples.

Robert Frost

Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

Thomas Guthrie

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

Matthew Simpson

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

Jerry Smith

Don't learn safety by accident.

Frederick Douglass

The ballot is the only safety.

Harold MacMillan

There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

Jim Butcher

Better safe than exsanguinated.

Honore de Balzac

The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

Gloria Swanson

I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.

Azar Nafisi

I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

Ben Goldacre

I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton.

Catherine McAuley

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God.

Jason Aldean

I only took about five guitar lessons in my life from an actual teacher. I learned fast that that wasn't for me. I didn't have the attention span to learn that way. So I learned the basics from my dad, then just from playing on stage, and watching other guitar players.

Daniel Handler

Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.

Robert Kiyosaki

Success is a poor teacher

Clive James

The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned.

Donald Trump

I don't think I changed a lot although I learned a lot. Adversity can be a wonderful teacher. Some people can't handle the pressure of it. For me it was a great thing. I learned about myself going through tough times. I guess I learned well.

Adam Savage

Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.