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.

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 Wordsworth

Let Nature be your teacher

William Saroyan

Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man.

William Nicholson

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

William James

From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.

Curt Schilling

He obviously sat next to me in Washington and lied. I don't know that there's any way to prove that anything he did was not under the influence of performance-enhancing drugs.

Jim Haslam

I don't give so I can have influence over there,

Tish Olszewski

I'm not sure what influenced him to go to VNI. Maybe it had something to do with his acting. In an undercover capacity, you really have to act.

Charles Dean

I have tremendous respect for Walt, ... He has left a lasting influence on all of us.

Kelly Doski

Everyone loves kids. I think having my own was a big influence in wanting quality care.

Dan Walker

Even when he was in there, we were ready for him and we stopped him. Missing him was a big influence on their plays.

Liv Warfield

Being with Prince and the New Power Generation, I was very influenced by those sounds, and now I'm more than ready to show that side of me with confidence.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season; And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.

Page Hamilton

We went to South America on a trip and all I had was a Robert Johnson album. So that's a definite influence on the album. My bandmates John [Stanier, drummer] and Henry [Bogdan, bassist] were interested in expanding their roles as writers, so that had a positive impact on the record.

Ronald Reagan

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If there is no immortality, there is no virtue

David Brooks

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Bernard Meltzer

One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

Benjamin Franklin

Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

Benjamin Franklin

Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.

Juvenal

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.