Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rodman Philbrick

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

R. Laing

Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

Nicholas Negroponte

So when we make this available, it is an education project, not a laptop project. The digital divide is a learning divide - digital is the means through which children learn leaning. This is, we believe, the way to do it.

Dennis Brooks

One concern with this plan was that these children would be labeled as Lillian Emery children. Has that been a problem?

John Parrinello

One day out of his life, something went very, very wrong. His last words to me were at least he has two children out there.

Mary Clark

Now, children, go to sleep. I don't want you to worry when you hear the creaking on the stairs. The ghost promised he wouldn't show up tonight.

Chuck Goodman

Nowadays, very few children actually learn to swim. Instead, they learn to play in the water.

John Whalen

I wanted to be sure that Sun Prairie heads in the right direction and does what's right for the children in the community, yet protecting the taxpayers.

P. J. O'Rourke

Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.

Andrew Natsios

Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world.

Alfred North Whitehead

Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.

Alfred North Whitehead

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

Alexander Herzen

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

Dylan Thomas

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

Anita Ekberg

I'm very much bigger than I was, so what? It's not really fatness, it's development.

Albert Bandura

Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend

Valentina Tereshkova

I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century

Stephen Hawking

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Baha'u'llah

The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct.

Ashton Eaton

To do the best that I possibly could in my world makes me pretty happy.

Azim Premji

The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesnt affect them.

Ayn Rand

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

Brian Tracy

There is nobody like him in the world. There is - and always will be - one Jim Rohn.

Benjamin Disraeli

Everything in this world depends upon will.

Cao Cao

I will show you the path to the spirit world.

Bryant H. McGill

We can each immediately liberate ourselves as victims in the world, through solidifying an intent to act.

Bryant H. McGill

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.