Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

Rich Brooks

That (the 9-1 mark) doesn't mean anything this week. The history of the series is something people need to write stories about or talk about (on the radio). It doesn't really have anything to do with the game.

Eugene Levy

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

Javier Aguirre

This team knows that they are part of history but it also knows that they have done nothing yet.

Amir Salem

This verdict will go into the dustbin of history.

Margaret Chan

When is the next time? We don't have a time frame. I suspect it will likely to be November, if history is anything to go by.

Walter Raleigh

Let valour end my life!

Alan Stern

The United States is going to go down in history for the initial reconnaissance of the planets.

Russell Tovey

When I was really young, I wanted to be a history teacher because I was obsessed with the past.

Eckhart Tolle

If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.

Regina Brett

Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

Stacy London

You have to let go of who you were to allow yourself to become who you are.

Gwen Stefani

Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.

Jack Kornfield

In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course I get angry, but then a few minutes later I say to myself, 'What's the use of this,' and I let it go.'

J. J. Abrams

It's not a bad way to live once you let go of the idea that you deserve more.

Dave Morris

It is easy to force a reader or viewer to interact. The trick is in making them want to interact, and in letting the story unfold hand-in-hand with that.

Cathy Rigby

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Baltasar Gracian

At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.

Riley Wallace

Second half, when (Idaho) went man-to-man, we ran everything to Julian. That's why he got all those dunks.

Inaki Saez

So I have put another man in at the back.

John Nicks

Only one thing has changed. I was an old man then and she was a young girl, and I'm an old man and she's a young lady. That's the only difference.

E. P. Thompson

only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.

Robbie Williams

I am the only man who can say he's been in Take That and at least 2 members of the Spice Girls.

Arcadi Gaydamak

I am the most popular man in Israel.

Stephen Jay Gould

Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans, we should cringe in embarrassment that, at the dawn of a new, technological millennium, a jurisdiction in our heartland has opted to suppress one of the greatest triumphs of human discovery.

Andrew Jackson

Elevate those guns a little lower.

Richard Marcinko

Shoot first and ask questions not at all

Michael Ignatieff

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

Theodore Roosevelt

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Chris McNaughton

For the students, it was not a question that we would win the Patriot League. For us, as players, we were like, ?Hold on!

James A. Garfield

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

George H. W. Bush

We are not the sum of our possessions.

Surya Thapa

I am a patriot and I have a responsibility to fulfil.

Clive James

The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned.

Robert A. Heinlein

From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle.

Roger Smith

The world needs specialists and highly trained people with advanced degrees, no question about it. But the world also needs diversity and versatility. It needs people who know as much about our value system as they do about our solar system.

Thomas Merton

It seems to me that the darkness that has troubled you ... comes from one very serious source. Without wanting to be in conflict with the truth and with the will of God, we are actually going against God's will and His teaching.

Thomas Merton

Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative teaching but above all to a deep personal experience which is at once unique and yet shared by the whole Body of Christ, in the Spirit of Christ.

Thomas Carlyle

Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

Thomas Carlyle

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

Tony Danza

Poverty can't be an excuse for bad teaching, but teaching can't be the only thing we do to combat poverty.

Steve Martin

Teaching is a form of show business.