Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Cothran

This is an attempt to religiously sterilize the teaching of history in our schools.

Don Catlin

It's obfuscation. There is no attempt to be clear and concise and to describe the product for what it is.

George E. Pataki

They endured life-threatening ... conditions and executed an extremely difficult and dangerous rescue mission ... It took courage and heroism for people to conclude that they would make the effort and attempt that rescue mission.

Alejandro Toledo

They are dressing up the results without listening to the will of the people, ... I want them to know if they attempt to twist the will of the people that I will be the first to go to the streets at the front of the line, to defend the rights of the nation.

Angelo Bitsis

There was no resistance, no attempt to flee or anything like that. It was a very, I hate to use the word, it was a very routine investigation and arrest. Just so happens that he's someone who is of some prominence and so everyone is making a big deal of it.

Subash Nemwang

This looks like another attempt by the king to fool the people. It is a desperate attempt to save the regime.

Kevin Hall

It is promising that, at least from the Senate side, there's been an attempt to strike a more welcoming and appropriate balance.

Pat Cahill

It's a final attempt to get a message to the board that a large group of people are very unhappy.

David Brickman

This is their feeble attempt to try and avoid paying.

Richard Hunter

I think the days of ups and downs are behind us. I think people are beginning to realize that the growth here is being sustained. Obviously our goal is to be a profitable company and return those benefits to shareholders. That's why I'm here.

Sharon Allen

I knew at the beginning of the game we weren't ready, then they made us play at a higher level and we weren't ready again.

Greg Teets

The handset market is beginning a recovery. Consumers are interested in new phones with color and digital displays.

Robert Kirkman

The important information you need at the beginning of an issue. Like way they did the old Frank Miller Daredevil issues in the first five pages he always had to state his origins and how he got his powers.

Eunice Newcomer

The doctors did tell my husband that he was in the throws the beginning of his death.

Cedric Garland

A glass of milk, for example, has only 100 international units. Other foods, such as orange juice, yogurt and cheese, are now beginning to be fortified, but you have to work fairly hard to reach 1,000 IU a day.

Peter Dolan

You could see in the beginning some modest positive benefit, but I think in a three-to-five-year time frame ... what we modeled into our business is (a) neutral to slightly negative impact,

Steve Wozniak

The Mac's a symbol of a whole revolution, and most of us that participated in it from the beginning and believed in it bought into these new ideals of computers to really help people, and not something that you had to fight, memorize and learn, ... That whole revolution just continues in our hearts to this day.

Mark Atherton

The kids came out from the beginning and took care of business. That is all they really wanted to do.

I think college administrators should encourage students to urinate on walls and bushes, because then when students from another college come sniffing around, they'll know this is someone else's territory.

Wendy Williams

I know firsthand that educators are the most overworked and underpaid people around. It influenced me in that it was always about family first, and education was right next to that. There was never any question about whether I was going to college.

Frank Thompson

Rockefeller College is one of the premier places in the country to study politics, governance, policy, and public administration,

Henry Giroux

With the corporatization and privatization of higher education, it is increasingly more difficult for colleges and universities to expand and deepen democratic public life, produce engaged critical citizens, and operate as democratic public spheres.

Tom Rose

Once he adjusts to the college game, he's going to be a very good player. He's already very strong.

Melissa Lardomita

I want to raise this money for pre-paid college tuition for his kids and to help her pay the bills.

Dikembe Mutombo

It was mandatory in college that we had to wear a suit. I think it's kind of funny ? now we get the opportunity to make millions and millions of dollars and we're required to wear suits. Well, we were required to wear them in college when we made nothing.

Tim Tierney

I've had a couple schools talk to me, but I've not decided on a specific college yet. I definitely want to keep playing.

Noam Chomsky

The people of the Third World need our sympathetic understanding and, much more than that, they need our help. We can provide them with a margin of survival by internal disruption in the United States. Whether they can succeed against the kind of brutality we impose on them depends in large part on what happens here.

Susan Ward

Train your staff (if you have any) to be always helpful, courteous, and knowledgeable. Most importantly, give every member of your staff enough information and power to make those small customer-pleasing decisions, so he never has to say, "I don't know, but so-and-so will be back at..."

Susan Ward

The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did!

Peter Drucker

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

Jeffrey Tambor

My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!

G. H. Hardy

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

Gary Player

The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.

Erich Fromm

Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything, and hence that it is a sign of ignorance to be surprised or puzzled by anything.

Martha Stewart

My parents were able to pay our expenses, but not for education. We were encouraged to work hard in school and get scholarships.

Carl Rogers

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

Willie Smith

If the students see it as something they can put to use, then they are interested.