Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joanne Pratt

The Web is a great place to shop and spend money, but it's pretty great for making money too.

Beth Combs

That's why they are Purdue and we're not. They were able to sustain that run and make a great run when it counted.

Stuart Allard

That's why I prefer independent movies. It proves you don't need big stars to make a great movie.

Vinny Castilla

That's why he's here. He's a great player, and that's why he's with us and the National team.

Micky Sullivan

That's why he's going to Oklahoma. He can go and get it. It's great to have a guy that where all you need to do is get it close.

Emilie Ravin

That's what's great about it. Everyone is so different. Different ages. Different nationalities,

Will Rogers

That's what makes us a great nation. We take the little things serious, and the big ones as a joke.

Derek Dennis

That's what makes Peekskill so special. We have a great bench, so we can make runs on teams that aren't as deep.

Marcus Thames

That's what I work for every year. It'll be a great feeling.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide.... Yes, 86 percent of the passersby voted to ban water (H2O) from the environment. Maybe that's what really happened to all the water on Mars.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

You can make a stack high enough to reach the moon and back, and only then will you have used your 100 billion hamburgers. This is terrifying news to cows.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

Marie Curie

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Margaret Mead

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

Michael Faraday

I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing to the cathode, cations; and when I have occasion to speak of these together, I shall call them ions.

James Jeans

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

Adam Savage

Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.

Maya Angelou

At our best, we're all teachers

Maya Angelou

What I think it really means is: I'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do and as all of you do-whether we know it or not, whether we take responsibility for it or not. I hold nothing back because I want to see that light go off. I like to see the children say, 'I never thought of that before.' And I think, 'I've got them!'

Matthew Arnold

For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.

Meg Whitman

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

Max Weber

The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

Max Beerbohm

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

Max Brooks

I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.

Matthew McConaughey

A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.