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.

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Cheryl Burnett

Purdue has some players that, in the time of need, are really going to step up and want the basketball.

Rick Barnes

I've never seen players take so much pride in their schoolwork.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joe Tiller

The secondary played better in many phases. We are in a situation that we are switching things up to see what the result is and tonight it was a better product.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Manson Hill

The whole team played well and battled hard.

Philip Rivers

This is not a setback. I haven't played a ton, that's true. But I've had the two years, and I know the abilities I do have.

Rob Sumner

Our defenseman couldn't get there because he was getting blocked. There was a scoring chance created off of it and they scored.

Al Wolski

The monkey is kinda off our back. The first win is always the most important. To be so close to it so many games prior, it gnawed at their insides and finally they got a chance to win. It's great for them.

Luke Ridnour

Coach McMillan gave me a chance to play in my second year. I'll always be thankful for that, but it's just like any other game.

Tom Henley

Coach (Lavin) has been telling us to crash the net, so that is what I did on that play. Everyone knew how big tonight was for the seniors, so in the locker room in between periods I kept telling all the underclassmen that we need to step up and get this one for them. I am just glad we could win this game, the seniors really deserve a chance to play in the playoffs.

Steve Spurrier

Coach, if you get the chance you ought to do it.

Brandon Heath

Coach Fisher gave me a second chance. I promised him I would not let him down by taking a chance on me. I was determined not to let him down, or my mom down or myself down.

Tim Hill

Coach Wynn took a chance on a young coach from South Florida Community College. He supported me in every way, and I am extremely grateful.

Roy McFarland

Colin has been training with us for a couple of weeks and, now he has become available, we are keen to give another local lad the chance of playing first team football for Chesterfield.

Connor Franta

Coffee has always been a significant part of my life. For me, it's a chance to start my day and gather my thoughts - it's fuel for my creative process.