Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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 Lynes

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

William Zinsser

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.

William Zinsser

Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written and looks at it with the objectivity of a plumber examining a newly piped bathroom to see if he got all the joints tight.

William Sanderson

The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.

William Matthews

Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided--the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity.

William Jennings Bryan

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

William Wordsworth

Let Nature be your teacher

Roald Dahl

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.

Venus Williams

I say accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If you don't accessorize, someone else will.

W. P. Kinsella

If you build it, they will come.

Yogi Berra

Buy a stock, if it goes up, sell it, if it goes down, don't buy it.

Neale Donald Walsch

If I do not go within, I go without.

Kevin Bacon

I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it.

Jon Gruden

If any QB can complete passes to himself, it's Johnny Manziel.

Jon Glaser

If you're a stand-up, you're more or less yourself.

John Buchan

It's a great life, if you don't weaken,

Karen Russell

If you're gonna do something weird, just have one thing be weird.

Garrett Hardin

You cannot do only one thing.

Ted Nugent

If there is one thing I am, it's always right.

Martin Short

No one is any one thing.

George Herbert

A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another.