Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amity Gaige

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Brandon Sanderson

Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.

Boris Vallejo

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

Barbara Kingsolver

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Benjamin Bratt

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

Brian Sandoval

I worked my way through law school.

Brendan Fehr

I never liked group work in school.

Calvin Coolidge

A government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must be independent and free within his own sphere or cease to be an individual. The fundamental question ... is now, and always will be through what adjustments, by what actions, these principles may be applied.

Aja Naomi King

When the doors to television were opened to me, that was quite a surprise. It's been such a gift that there was so much TV and independent film happening in New York that I could be a part of. There was something to satiate my desire to be artistic and creative, especially when it wasn't in the way I originally thought it was going to be.

Charles Babbage

He will also find that the high and independent spirit, which usually dwells in the breast of those who are deeply versed in scientific pursuits, is ill adapted for administrative appointments; and that even if successful, he must hear many things he disapproves, and raise no voice against them.

John Avlon

I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.

Craig Ferguson

There's just a feeling you get from certain things you do in life that just kind of feel pure and independent of what's actually, physically, going on.

Edmund Burke

The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.

David Nicholls

But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.

Bernie Sanders

I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats.

Stephen Jay Gould

If we make this readjustment to view Homo sapiens as an ultimate in oddball rarity, and life at bacterial grade as the common expression of a universal phenomenon, then we could finally ask the truly fundamental question raised by the prospect of Martian fossils. If life originates as a general property of the material universe under certain conditions (probably often realized), then how much can the basic structure and constitution of life vary from place to independent place?

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Mary Scott

Ten percent of our homes are now rentals. It's a big problem.

Alex Cintron

It was unbelievable pressure to win in your home country. It was kind of like playing in a World Series, but you are playing for your country.

Frantisek Kaberle

It was very important that we come back home and get back on track. One point? I don't know -- at home, we need to get two points.

Eric Williams

It was all about the hustle plays. That shows a team that doesn't want to go home yet.

Carolyn Hinsey

It was a little small-minded of NBC to take their marbles and go home and I don't think the actors appreciated that. NBC shows are really popular with the fans.

Luis Avila

It was about as different from home as I could imagine.

Daryl Hall

I specialize in early homes, and what I care about the most is renovating a home and taking it back to its original construction idea.