Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nathaniel Smith

We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.

Eric Hecox

They have consistently attended the meetings and when there has been discussion about alternates, they've rejected them. They volunteered for the job and are serious about the role they play.

Samuel Hopkins

This institution of Heaven, when properly attended to, understood, and cordially embraced, turns men from darkness to marvelous light. If it finds them in a state of savage ignorance and barbarity it civilizes them, and forms them to be intelligent and good members of society.

Larry Bowman

They stepped up without any hesitation. There was a meeting where all the chambers attended and signed on right away. Certainly the door is open for others to come in as well.

Rochelle Cancienne

There were three phases. Those students who attended school prior to Katrina, those students who lived within the parish and attended other schools, and those displaced students from Orleans and Jefferson parishes.

Mike Stevens

It might not be as widely attended as it was, but there will be some spirited people there,

Patricia Stevens

The students turn a Y into a J. I had a well-spoken professor tell me he went to 'jail' when he meant to tell me he attended 'Yale' University.

Adlai E. Stevenson

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations--great or small--to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

You would think the government would be able to produce direct evidence that my client attended a training camp. They cannot because that evidence does not exist.

Tawny Toering

When I was in elementary school I always looked up to high school students.

Pat Hamamoto

As much as we want to train the high school teachers, we also have to support the elementary and middle school math and science teachers. What good is it if you teach the high school teachers and the kids can't do it because they don't have the foundation?

Dorothea Shannon

All our new teachers are pretty evenly distributed between elementary and secondary schools.

Debra Robinson

It really is about increasing the rigor in elementary and middle school.

Rod Phillips

As a smaller elementary school, if they can get out there and do it, we should do well.

Richard Riley

Our elementary schools are getting better at teaching the basics,

Mark Thomson

I see that as a huge issue for all of us with high-functioning kids in elementary school.

Matt Rogers

I've been here K through 12, and we've all been playing together since elementary school. (Receiver) Mark Dillman moved here before freshman year, but other than him it's been us all the way.

Rep. Tymeson

That's not to say that elementary teachers are not important, but we know we have a shortage in the math and science areas.

David Boreanaz

The potential for their personal lives entering in their professional lives is dynamic.

Louis Armstrong

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Claudia Coles

We're seeing an increase of producers entering into the raw milk market.

Dennis Miller

Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group.

Jon Fredrikson

We're gaining traction in the U.S. market. Wine is entering the mainstream of American life for the first time.

Paul Stoddart

It's a sad day for Formula One when the privateers really do go, but I think we are entering into a new era where the privateers are the Red Bulls, they are really well funded.

Pierre Bonnard

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

Teun Draaisma

Profit growth is going to slow down dramatically. It's not a great level to be entering the equity market.

Sgt. Urbas

Technically, it's beautiful. This is much quicker than entering plate numbers by hand. It's a matter of seconds.

Chet Williamson

There's nothing like a headless corpse to bring a touch of excitement into one's life.

Sherry Murphy

What a huge opportunity for our community. We're just giddy with excitement over this.

Jon Jansen

We've got more work to do. The excitement is fun and it will last for a little while, but we've got some goals that are still out there.

Michael Cherry

It's just a morale thing. The other names have been kicking around so long. It's much more about trying to keep focused and keep some excitement around where they are going.

Jon Lieber

It's a tough one to swallow because of the excitement of the first day of the year. You hate to have a game get out of hand like that one did in the fourth inning. But what else can you say?

Joe Thornton

There was lots of excitement in the third period, but we just couldn't hold the lead.

Craig Smith

There's a lot of excitement on campus. It's one weekend down, two more to go (to the Final Four).

Billy Mayfair

It's a great finishing hole. I think it makes for a lot of excitement and it could turn the whole tournament around real fast.

Tracie Beasley

It's all about the excitement of this wonderful resource and its tributaries.

Nina Hoss

As a kid, I remember crying and then noticing myself in the mirror and being fascinated by how that looked.

Kevin Spacey

Whether it's 'Veep' or 'Homeland' or 'The West Wing' - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

Errol Morris

A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.'

Norman Mailer

There was no one ever in American life who was remotely like Truman Capote. Small wonder, then, if people are still fascinated by him.

Cynthia Kenyon

The public is absolutely fascinated by aging. They don't want to get old. And you can see - read Shakespeare. Read the sonnets. They're all about aging.

Dwight Yoakam

When I was in junior high, a foreign-history teacher started a theater class. So I got my feet wet there and through high school, so I was very fascinated with acting as a means of expression.

Penelope Cruz

You can always keep learning with acting, because the school is life and yourself and your friends and your relationships. I'm fascinated by it! It's infinito!

Juliet Landau

I've always wanted to do a period movie, to do something the turn of the century, and I'm really fascinated by that whole time period.

Christopher McQuarrie

I've always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular.

Eddie McGuire

We still remain the highest live television talk show. (Andrew) Denton and Rove (McManus) and all the rest of it get the Logies and we get the ratings,

Matt Millen

We started off the season with high expectations,

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Madeleine Albright

I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear high heels.

William Mosher

Whether the levels (of condom use) are high enough is for others to judge. But I think it's at least encouraging.

Jonathan Davies

When I was in high school, I wasn't a jock, I was into art, drama, and music, and I wore eyeliner, so I wasn't accepted.

Marty Turco

When it comes down to it, the opportunity to win here is at its highest level. That's what I was looking for.

Richard Nugent

We're going to start doing this more regularly, ... I could be mistaken, but that's got to be one of the all-time highs. I'm pretty sure it's the highest we've ever had.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I don't understand how they can call me anti-Latino, when I've made four movies in Mexico.

Carol Sutherland

They're well established and will be in New Mexico for the foreseeable future.

Stephen Kinzer

One day, Mexico will have a leader who is nationalist not simply in rhetoric, but also in fact.

Elizabeth Phillips

I use it a lot when I go to Mexico with my mom, so it's very useful. Basically, that should come in real handy.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

I am such a vacation girl. I have little places that I go to frequently! If I am not too busy on a weekend, I try to go someplace like Mexico or Manzanillo or something like that.

Craig Ferguson

A lot of the U.S. used to be part of Mexico, including Arizona. But they're a bit touchy about that right now.

Bruce Beresford

Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.

Lee Snyder

We're going to be going to other sources, like Mexico and Honduras.

Donald Trump

Mexico will not be taking advantage of us. They will not be having open borders.

Ken Hitchcock

There were some long games. There was some city-by-city emotion. There was a lot of anger. There was a lot of high-spirited competition. It was down to its most primitive level.

James Clarke

It doesn't really shout out tyrannosaurus when you first see it. That's because it is really a primitive tyrannosaur.

Kevin Doll

We often see that in this type of primitive operation.

Lewis Wade

They're not going to tell. They'd rather retaliate.

Dryden Mitchell

It was so unorganized. ... It just got silly. We would have rather sat on that record for a year and let Geffen put it out.

Nick Cave

Aw, look, I don't know. I think I'd rather him do that than me.

James Griffin

As long as it is like it is and they tell me not to go back I'm here. I'd rather be up here anyway.

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

Bill White

Rather than risk confrontation with (police), we are going to stay at the Capitol.

W. C. Fields

On the whole I would rather be in Philadelphia.

A.J. Burnett

Sooner rather than later, we're going to see a new team on top there.

Kevin Pietersen

Rather him than me in one of those things,

Charles Spurgeon

How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves

Charles Spurgeon

Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there.

Al Jourgensen

If you remember the ‘90s, you weren’t there.

David Hockney

It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.

Audre Lorde

So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.

Cassandra Peterson

I do not remember the '70s, for who-knows-what-all reasons.

Cassandra Peterson

I vaguely remember doing [all my] photo sessions, but definitely there were some surprises there for me.

C. S. Lewis

You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!

Charlie Chaplin

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Alan Watts

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

Alan Paton

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

Alan Bennett

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Ball

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Alan Alda

When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.

Al Stewart

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

Akio Morita

I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.

Chris Cleave

I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.

Chris Colfer

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.

Nicolas Roeg

There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really!

Kurt Vonnegut

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.

Bertolt Brecht

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.

Benjamin Jowett

Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Bertrand Russell

A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world suffers.

Bertrand Russell

You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years.

Bertrand Russell

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Bernard Haisch

Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true of every exclusive occupation. Likewise a mere linguist, a mere jurist, a mere soldier, a mere merchant, and so forth. One could add such idle chatter that when a certain exclusive occupation is often connected with certain specific shortcomings, it is on the other hand always free of certain other shortcomings.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.

Steven Wright

Do you have any toy train schedules?

Michael Bay

I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don't tell anyone, but I'd do this for free.

Larry Jones

But that's up to Toyota if they want to use it.

Jason Mewes

I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.

Fannie Flagg

By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?

Nicola Formichetti

I'm half-Japanese, so I collect toys, like a Yayoi Kusama stuffed pumpkin.

Sonny Vaccaro

I've got a lot of toys to play with. I just turned 64, and I'm reinventing myself again.

Mo Ibrahim

I don't even have a small boat. I don't even have a toy boat in my bathtub. I don't have a biplane, I don't have anything. Those things are toys, and I don't need them to be happy.