Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pansy Tlakula

I urge voters to register or re-register as a matter of urgency and not to delay it beyond this week. They will only be able to do so until the elections are formally proclaimed in the Government Gazette, and that could be imminent.

Laurie Paolicelli

Common sense tells us the university is the major catalyst, but beyond that, what is the tourism pull for Orange County as a whole? We really didn't know.

Mitchel Resnick

Computer programming has been traditionally seen as something that is beyond most people - it's only for a special group with technical expertise and experience. We have developed 'Scratch' as a new type of programming language, which is much more accessible.

Kurt Prenzler

District 7 wants all property owners to pay: retirees, people on fixed incomes, people with pensions who might evaporate because of economic issues beyond their control, people who have no children and people who choose to educate their children outside the public school system.

Peter Mirsky

Disney has seen a turn in their businesses but if you look out beyond this year, things get a lot more difficult.

John Borden

Dimas thinks way beyond himself. It has been great to watch him grow.

Zachary Liggett

Core gamers will be impressed by the specs of the Xbox. But getting beyond that, you need to have the content there.

Parker Palmer

Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.

Stacy Schiff

By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.

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.

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.

Celine Dion

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

Brandon Boyd

Surf is something I have been obsessed with since I was a child.

Bob Ehrlich

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

Bob Dole

This is not politics... it's to protect the innocence of children.

Charles Spurgeon

A child of five, if properly instructed, can, as truly believe, and be regenerated, as an adult.

Charles Spurgeon

God's children are God's children anywhere and everywhere, and shall be even unto the end. Nothing can sever that sacred tie, or divide us from his heart.

Norm Roberts

The young man was definitely excited about the Garden and St. John's, but it wasn't a slam dunk. Anthony told me early on: 'I'm not telling my kid where to go. We may be friends, but my son is going to choose where he wants to go.'

Cui Yugui

They (the migrant workers) are separated from their spouses for a large part of the year. They don't earn much, but they choose to spend a lot on the test. It is such a pity.

Greg Stumbo

It is unprecedented for the governor's office to choose the judges in its own case. All parties should disclose any prior contacts with the special justices.

F. Stone

It's an underreported fact that women have been the voting majority since 1964. In the same year that women are poised to take over the Net, we'll also choose who our next President will be.

Ed Perry

It's a nice thing to get. They're quite discriminating in who they choose for the award, so it's an honor.

Jeffrey Jacobs

It's all a matter of quality. I choose what I think people will like to see, films with an interesting story, directing and acting.

Tom Renney

It's a judgment day for our team. This season could be recognized one way or the other by how we choose to perform on Saturday. We want the outcome to obviously be in our favor. We have to play a good, strong, playoff hockey game and if we do that, we'll put ourselves in a position to win it anyway.

Howard Simon

This lawsuit is not about the Pledge of Allegiance. It is about his right to choose not to stand to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

Gabriella Goddard

This is your life. Choose to live it to the fullest.

Lynn McDonald

Our district will be really tough. We still have a ways to go, and we want to be ready.

Tom Suelzle

I think it's going to be a good district tourney. If a team gets hot, anything can happen.

Keith Hennig

It was a big monkey off our back to win our first district game. Now this sets us up for a shot at getting to state. This was a big win and hopefully we can keep it going.

Scott Leggett

It was a great district win. I am proud of our effort. Our next game is Saturday in the North Pike Tournament.

Marlene Walz

It makes us look like we're not a superior school district when in reality we are.

Colin Strother

It's an outside interest that couldn't find this district with a magnifying glass.

David Ganey

It's going to be a tough tournament. It's going to be a tournament in which we could improve on some district seeds if we wrestle well.

Margi Nanney

It's going to be a while. The school district has vowed to stick to our moral, legal and ethical duties.

Tim Russell

It's good that we have a lot of familiarity with the teams. It makes the scheduling easier. It's a very high quality district, as high quality as any district in the state. We're excited about seeing the same faces.

Harvey Pitt

This is not an economic problem, it's a physical catastrophe,

James Gaston

You can't do right by the students in an economic vacuum,

Lauryn Hill

I had an economic system imposed on me.

Donald Trump

The plan I am proposing today does not involve smoke and mirrors, phony numbers, financial gimmicks, or the usual economic chicanery you usually find in Disneyland-on-the-Potomac.

Jeff Kleintop

Once again, we're seeing a reaction to soft economic data.

Bob Evans

That's something that could be of significant economic value.

Mick Fleming

They have recognized the region is the new economic principality in this world.

Juergen Falter

No jovial hand shaker would get far without helping the local economy. Make no mistake, jobs and economic prosperity are the main issues here.

Robert Rodriguez

It's more of a psychological event than an economic event.

Noel Coward

I'm over-educated in the things I shouldn't have known at all.

Jim Jeffords

Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.

Howard Rheingold

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

Andy Williams

For the most part, a lot of these issues are things that we knew and we've been working to address.

Ivan Illich

I intend to discuss some perplexing issues which are raised once we embrace the hypothesis that society can be deschooled; to search for criteria which may help us distinguish institutions which merit development because they support learning in a deschooled milieu; and to clarify those personal goals which would foster the advent of an Age of Leisure ( schole ) as opposed to an economy dominated by service industries.

John Dalton

I don't think these issues will pull people to the polls, ... I think that those who normally vote in the primary will be the only ones voting on them, unfortunately.

Ryan Gosling

It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than (one) film.

O. Henry

Our point here is that what we don't want is for people to walk away and say, well, those are yesterday's issues and they have been or will be addressed.

Jim Crace

In the U.K., a lot of writers won't show up to support activist issues because they figure they're already repairing the world. I don't want to be one of those people.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I'm not a politician. I'm not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that's not really what turns me on. What turns me on is how people perceive the issue and how people see people like me.

Hanya Yanagihara

I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.

Alexander McCall Smith

Each of us is born into our own mysteries...but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging!

Alexander McCall Smith

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

Drew Brees

It might have been the hardest hit I took all day.

Doug Stanhope

[Stand-up] might be ballsy, but I'd rather not be an actor. Actors are tools.

Doug Stanhope

So you stick something up your ass, and you hope it might work, and it usually helps.

Colleen Hoover

All marriages have a time limit if you enter them for the wrong reasons. Marriage doesn't get easier...it only gets harder. If you marry someone hoping it will improve things, you might as well set your timer the second you say, 'I do.

Clare Boothe Luce

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Chuck D.

If you go get a passport, it might encourage you to at least consider the world around you.

Joe Torre

I don't think that's outside the realm of possibility,

Les Brown

People couldn't get down here. They couldn't find it, so they'd go a different way and go somewhere else.

Carol Schatz

People couldn't get down here. Some stayed and went on walking tours.

Kim Clijsters

People come up to me here and say, 'This is your year,'  ... but I know it's not easy. You always have to focus.

Annie Golden

People come up to me all the time. If I'm with friends or in a crowd, I'm fine, but if I'm by myself, I get afraid because people are nuts.

Martin Berson

People come to yoga to find themselves. Stretching releases tension, but there?s also a meditative, spiritual aspect. ..You are going to get physical benefits, and that?s fine. But if you have the right teacher, you?re going to get all the other stuff, too.

Steve Farmer

People come to visit here, and they really like the place.

Bob Richards

People come to see the stars, and then they walk away with two or three new favorites.

Mari Dietz

People come back year after year to see what we're wearing.

John McGee

People feel more comfortable with that. They know everybody.

Adam Smith

We want the public to be more engaged.

Amy Lee

Like now what Urban Outfitters has become is very much how I always dressed in high school by going to garage sales and getting stuff for 50 cents. Cost a little more now, to look like crap.

Alison Elliott

I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.

Alison Moyet

I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids.

Alison Krauss

I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.

Alicia Sacramone

I really want to go back to school and finish up my sociology degree.

Ann Brashares

We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.

Andy Dick

I grew up Presbyterian, just a basic Protestant upbringing. There were years in my life when I would go to church every Sunday and to Sunday school. Then I just phased out of it.

Andrzej Wajda

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.

Andy Borowitz

Let's withdraw from Afghanistan and have the army invade America - that's the only way we'll get new schools and roads.