Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael J. Saylor

Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.

Roberto Martinez

I'm kind of waiting for an algebra book.

Caleb Dolan

If kids are behind, they need more time in school. We have kids who come to us in fifth grade as nonreaders. We had kids who come to us with parole officers. Now they are in algebra II and Spanish II.

Tom Barrett

That hurts us for AYP. We're giving a lot more kids the opportunity to take Algebra 1,

Jim Haney

They delay and may go to (another) school and in four months get eight or 10 core course requirements. And within that sequence you might be taking Algebra I and II and geometry, which doesn't make sense (that) you could fulfill those (at the same time).

Nancy Roman

I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?'

Margo Dewkett

All of that snorting, it's just like an algebra problem. We're going to give him a job. By giving him a job, I keep his mind active.

Johann Heinrich Lambert

The mathematical sciences, in particular algebra and mechanics, provided me with clear and profound examples to confirm the rules I had learned.

Karen Rizzi

An incoming ninth-grader who hasn't passed algebra is certainly at risk of failing the exit exam.

Kathleen Hanna

I especially don't want men coming up to me and asking if sexism still exists. It's like, I'm seriously gonna barf a McDonald's salad on the next person to do that.

Mark Turgeon

I was just asking our guys to get it close and put the pressure on them.

Diego Della Valle

I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember. At the beginning I used J. P. Tod's, but then in 1999 it was shortened since too many people were asking who was Mr. J. P. Tod's.

Ermias Belay

Is what is happening in Idaho an anomaly, a statistical fluke? That is possible. But once it exceeds 1.5 or 2 per million, you start asking questions. If they are all confirmed, it could be odd.

Butch Leitzinger

He wanted to come down and see what it's about. He said he's never been around the road course. Elliott Forbes-Robinson took him around in a van to show him where it went. He seems to be very excited. He's asking all the right questions about shift points and breaking points. Just the kind of boring things you need to know before you get in the car. I think he'll really enjoy it. It's a good friendly car that's fast.

Bill Bryk

He just needs a third pitch. Here's a guy who the Twins were asking for in a big-league trade two years ago. So I look for good things from him.

Mike Fox

He just had a last-minute complication. It's a 12-hour drive round-trip and that was asking a great deal. He was hoping to be able to do it, but another situation necessitated other circumstances.

Peter Cappelli

Harvard Medical School is famous for asking interviewees to open a window that is nailed shut.

Thomas Piketty

The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the world.

Jeff Gordon

Just the four is really impressive. To do a fifth would be unbelievable.

Joe Neff

I thought we'd be a fourth or fifth seed, but the way things are set up, anything in the top 10 is pretty good. We've seen a lot of these teams. I like where we're at.

Jim Noyes

I think sometimes in basketball, just like everything else, when things don't go right you want to roll over and die. But we played well today, and we want to come back tomorrow and win fifth place.

Chris Enge

I was worried, but the thing is we are so deep. We're in our fifth match and I've had five different starting rotations. Whoever I put out there seems to get the job done.

Michelle Archambeault

I was 10th my first year. I finished fifth the next year and third last season, now I'm looking to win it all.

Gregory Coupet

We look at the match on Saturday as an important step on the road towards a fifth title.

David Raskin

He was supposed to fly the fifth plane into the White House on September 11.

Larry Holmes

I didn't want to go after him until the fifth or sixth round, after I had taken away some of his strength, ... But I had to open up a lot sooner than I wanted.

Richard Ben-Veniste

You can assert a fifth amendment privilege and not testify. But if you go in and swear to tell the truth, then you better do it. Otherwise, if a prosecutor finds that you have testified in a way that is factually incorrect and you had reason to know that it was factually incorrect, then you're guilty of perjury.

Dennis Hastert

I also think there has to be real guidance, ... So they can rule and tell people and give them guidance before they take a trip about what's right and what's acceptable.

Eric Ross

Guidance was disappointing. Inventories and chipset shortages are still issues.

Albert Rauch

If you've misjudged what's happened in 2005, how can you give guidance for 2006 and 2007?

Ted Parrish

Intel has a history of undershooting in its initial guidance.

Carl Smith

I'm 100 percent sure if Dr. Clayton was there, this would not have happened. It's all because the people in the guidance office had no idea what they were doing.

John Boland

I'm surprised by the guidance for next quarter.

Dipen Sanghavi

The market had moved very quickly in a short period of time, so investors are just taking profits now, waiting for guidance from the big tech firms.

Barbara Schneeman

The agency's intent is to have this as guidance and to reflect our thinking about what constitutes whole grains.

Safa Rashtchy

The revenue guidance for the first quarter looks pretty solid.

Casey Hampton

I was joking with Hines about that. I was like, 'Man, this is kind of like a consolation prize. With the MVP, it doesn't really matter what people think of you on other teams, it's about what your teammates think of you, and obviously our teammates think very highly of us.

Megan Smith

I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.

Courtney LaVere

I was looking for Mel (D'Amico) with the high passes so she could score.

Chris Mennis

I wouldn't be surprised if that $2.10 is the high for the week.

Chad Kroeger

I wrote this song when I was high on magic mushrooms,

Clark Yingst

I suspect 'Well we're in a directionless market' is likely to persist until we get a better read on how much higher rates will go.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Katharine McPhee

I actually studied in college, for the three semesters that I stayed in school, I don't recommend that, but I studied theater, and in high school I was involved in the drama department.

Jackson Wheeler

He was a big-time recruit out of high school, so a lot of people liked what they saw in him.

Ken Hill

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

Samir Haj

Karen has been our go-to person on the junior varsity team. We're going to incorporate more people into the scheme. We're going to start playing 18 people instead of just 13 or 14.

Klaus Allofs

He could make the same experiences with Werder instead of Bayern.

Scott Aukerman

I think you're a better comedian when you're in the moment and you're kind of reacting to what's happening like a real person instead of doing rote memorization.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we got into trouble when they started pressuring us and the five-count was on. Instead of taking them off the dribble, we got tentative. I just think we stopped attacking.

Shawan Robinson

I think we just got tight. Instead of playing to win, we were playing not to lose.

Gary Barnett

I think we wish we played at the end of the year. Look at every other rivalry, and tell me why they play at the end of the year instead of the beginning. By the end of the year, everything's evened out.

Gary Barnett

I think we wish we played at the end of the year, ... Look at every other rivalry, and tell me why they play at the end of the year instead of the beginning. By the end of the year, everything's evened out.

Bob Johnson

Hopefully, we can have one large one instead of several smaller ones.

Winston Churchill

Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)

Simms Taback

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.

Margaret Thatcher

I'm either the witch or Lady Macbeth of English politics, but someone gotta wear the pants in England when others wearing kilts

Gail Carriger

I am rather fond of ladybugs. They are so delightfully hemispherical.

Elian Gonzalez

They really psychologically traumatized Elian, ... This lady (Reno) to me doesn't have a heart.

Carine Roitfeld

My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.

Patrick Moynihan

We're going to send to the Senate not only the first lady of the land, but she will be the first lady of New York,

Rick Vymlatil

Years ago at this fair, I had a promoter tell me he could get me a young lady named Reba McEntire. I could've got her for $5,000, but we wanted big names that year, so we passed.

Laura Bush

substantial. Obviously, the First Lady is very popular in Texas.

Mike Robinson

Jose looked like he was in state placer form. He's wrestling really well.

James Bond

He just stayed there . . . no one looked at him to see if he was okay.

Elian Gonzalez

He just looked so relaxed and so calm, it's just something I ... have been thinking about since that day.

Jennifer Byrd

He just looked like he was sleeping, honestly.

Danny Aiello

I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father.

Wayne Allen

Have we ever looked at something like that?

Jim Murphy

He's a special kid. He's someone to be looked at down the road.

Mike Price

He's just running around a little bit. He looked good, though.

John Tortorella

I thought we were ready to play. But we looked surprised that there was another team on ice.

Russell Hoban

More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

All mathematics is tautology.

Gabriel Marcel

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

Lord Kelvin

Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.

Henri Poincare

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

Gustave Flaubert

Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie.

John Maynard Smith

Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

In mathematics there are no true controversies.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

Robin Hobb

We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

Veronica Roth

The Dauthless have the wierdest slang. Pansycake, Nose...is there a term for The Candor?" "Of course."Uriah grins."Jerks

Steven Saylor

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

Jim Harper

The camel's nose may be smaller, but it's still sneaking under the tent.

Graham Greene

Don't be shy. Put your nose right up to the bunghole.

Mike Shannon

Don't bite off your head to spite your nose.

Little Richard

They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again.

Lily Allen

Staying in with you is better than sticking things up my nose

Laurence Olivier

Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.

Patrick Rothfuss

It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission.

Madeline Albright

We are allies. We have responsibilities to each other. That's why our troops have been here with Italy's permission for so many years,

Joy Page

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you can choose to be.

Sonia Johnson

Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.

Paulo Coelho

Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.

Patricia Schroeder

Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

Michael Keaton

I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.

Teju Cole

Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

Jessica Pare

I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.

Julie Brown

I was always trying to do things to make school fun.

Richard Madden

I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.

Jan Murphy

I think we've done just about everything that can be done on a school vacation.

Ron Messick

Lauren's so big as a player. A lot of schools are starting to take notice.

Mike Lowry

I was way into Primus in high school so hanging out with him was a thrill.

Jonah Lomu

I went to a boarding school with a strong Maori tradition, where we were taught all about the haka.

Joe Cornish

I went to Bournemouth Film School for 3 years.

Simon Spurr

Spring 2010 is the second season that I'm showing the double-breasted suit. I think the right double-breasted suit is young again.

Doug Tolin

I thought we would come out and play better in the second half. But we could never really get anything going. It kind of went the other way on us.

Jim Court

I thought about it for 10 seconds or so.

Sue Donohoe

When he wanted to know what time it was, you had to get down there. You didn't tell him that it was 30 seconds left.

Jim Calhoun

We've got to take away 3-point shooting and not get fatigued by the shot clock. They make as many shots under 12 seconds as any team you're going to play.

Bruce Bainter

I went down there and it was up over the second step.

Manny Acta

I don't know Soriano as an outfielder. He is here to play second base.

Jerry Russo

He had trouble his first inning. His second inning was terrific.

Daunte Culpepper

He had a tremendous second half,'' Burleson said.

Avi

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

Anton LaVey

A friend of mine who was a founding father of the Church of Satan, who later I compared notes with, said when he was a kid, he too managed to get into Sallys Nude Ranch, and in the corral he saw his Sunday school teacher!!! That was a real epiphany for him. From that moment on he was a Satanist.

Rob Sheffield

Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.

Richard Howard

Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.

Richelle Mead

You are the most boring teacher ever." He grinned and gave me a quick kiss on the cheek, just as a knock sounded at the door. "It all depends on what you me to teach you.

Richelle Mead

I'm sure it is," she replied. Her expression turned fierce, making her look far different from the scattered teacher I knew. "But listen to me when I say this. You are exceptional, taleneted, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you're less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone-not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee-push you around." She put her glasses back on and began randomly lifting up pieces of papers. At last, she found a pen and grinned triumphantly. "Now, then. What is your brother's name?

Richelle Mead

He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day." I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly." "Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them.

Richelle Mead

You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you’re less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone—not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee—push you around.

Russell Baker

We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark at the young about the gentle arts of the spirit. The kids know that if we really valued learning, we would pay our teachers what we pay our lawyers and stockbrokers. If we valued art, we would not measure it by its capacity to produce profits. If we regarded literature as important, we would remove it from the celebrity sweepstakes and spend a little money on our libraries.