Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Kerry Nelson

Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.

Britt Ekland

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

John Romano

Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.

Ciara

Having a child with someone, you're always going to be respectful of that. But the song 'I Bet' was honestly inspired by my life experiences - I can't just say it's from one experience.

Tony Buzan

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

Sugata Mitra

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

Sugata Mitra

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Sugata Mitra

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

Gwen Stefani

L.A.M.B. is a fashion line that -- fingers crossed -- will just get more and more sophisticated, ... What's different than what's out there is the way I put things together. And, if you look inside the pants, you'll find secret details in there.

Tobias Crabtree

What you're seeing is a crossroads here between Wall Street analysts focused on the next quarter and long-term investors focused on the next three to five years.

Whoopi Goldberg

I think actually there's another young lady who would like to do it and so I've got my fingers crossed for her. I think it's Ellen. I think she would be good.

James Tate

I was just sitting on my bed in a dormitory room, and I started writing. The thing that was magic about it was that once you put down one word, you could cross it out. I figured that out right away. I put down 'mountain,' and then I'd go, 'No - 'valley.' That's better.'

Andre Miller

I was just trying to make a play. I was trying to set him up to cross over and he did and I got the steal.

Roy Hunn

He was just a soft-spoken, wonderful American. Every day or night, he'd go out on his walks. (But) it's dangerous to cross on a green light, much less a red one.

Reid Hoffman

The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.

Salman Rushdie

To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier.

Bryan Allen

Our parking lot frequently (has) people cross through it. It could be anything.

Mike Scioscia

Kenny's a fine manager. He was my vote for manager of the year.

Danny Meyer

I think that more and more and more really talented restauranteurs and chefs from the fine dining world are going to try their hand at fine casual. They're going to say, 'Why not us?'

Mike Cooper

I think as a small private school we do get overlooked sometimes, but that's fine with me because we know how good we are, and we are going to go out and play hard every night.

Frank Miller

It is, not to put too fine a point on it, a piece of propaganda.

Jamie Dixon

He was pretty sick for about two days. But he looked like he was fine today.

Andy Reid

He was fine today. He did a great job.

John McLaughlin

I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.

Jerramy Stevens

I don't feel like I said anything inappropriate. I told the truth. If he doesn't know who I am, then the surprise will be on him come Sunday. If he's worried more about me than someone else, that's fine with me.

Darko Milicic

I didn't come here to sit on the bench. I tell myself that everything will be fine here, but right now, nothing has changed. I want to play. I need to play. I learn nothing sitting on the bench.

Neal Shusterman

So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both: a directed burst of controlled insanity.

Jacque Fresco

If you remain conventional and don't change, you'll get along. You'll get along in the limited forms of insanity that exist out there. You'll never be able to keep a marriage together, you'll never be able to keep anything together, because the whole goddamn thing isn't together.

Chris Brown

Unity is what we are afraid of so fear is insanity. Let’s love each other.

Charles Manson

Sanity is a small box; insanity is everything.

Charles Horton Cooley

Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?

Bill Maher

Religion is insanity by consensus.

Avicenna

The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

Dorothea Dix

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

Ani Difranco

What doesn't bend, breaks.

Antonio McDyess

I was a little more motivated for the win. It was my first finals. To lose like we did, I'm going to remember it for the rest of my life.

Jordan Zuppe

We made up our minds we weren't going to lose again.

Martin Straka

If you play like that for 10 years in the NHL, there's no way you lose it in a year.

If you lose your job, your marriage and your mind all in one week, try to lose your mind first, because then the other stuff won't matter that much

Nick Collins

I'm very satisfied with the way I am playing. If you go out there and are scared, that's when you lose yourself. You've got to go out there and play, be yourself.

Ron Gibori

I made a promise at his memorial service that I would try and do something to make sure other students like myself would never have to lose a friend.

George Robertson

The message of NATO and the message of these demonstrators is very clear: Milosevic is a loser

Jonathan Safran Foer

It is better to lose than never to have had.

Jose Sulaiman

You shouldn't lose your title because you get injured,

Bhagwan Rajneesh

When you want any memory you can use the mind just as you can put on your tape recorder.

Joan Felt

My father's memory is impaired, but mostly he's just an old man.

Manny Lawson

Getting a shutout here is going to be a memory for the rest of my life.

E. Joseph Cossman

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

Dominik Hrbaty

I was already tired after the second five-setter, it was already quite enough.

Trevor Noah

Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa.

Gwendoline Christie

I quite like looking mucky; it's quite nice not having to care about how you look.

Dina Emde

I really wanted the record to be quite honest.

Gabrielle Aplin

I'm quite annoying and can't imagine what it would be like living with me 24/7.

Gerald Smith

If not, it's going to be quite a nut.

Lawrence Jacobs

I have never seen anything quite like this.

Lee Janzen

I'm not going to say it could never be that way. But I don't think (Woods) is quite there right now.

Tess Rogers

I wanted to keep playing, but I wasn't quite sure how that was going to happen.

Nathalie Sarraute

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

Nikki Sixx

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

Rita Mae Brown

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Mike Tomlin

It's not about what you're capable of, It's about what you're willing to do.

John Piper

You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.

Bill Crawford

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.

Jose Vielma

We would even be willing to take this to an international court.