Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Morse

This isn't being published for the academic community, albeit the academic community is keenly interested in it. From a student and parents' perspective, to know the relative peer standings of a school is important.

Mike Bohn

The University of Colorado is a gold mine ... and we're going to work our tail off to bring a great coach to this program to match the academic standing of this institution. That will be my sole focus.

Daniel J. Bernstein

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

Harry Reid

No one disputes his academic prowess, his mental power. He's a very smart man, ... But through all this I came to the realization that I'm not too sure his heart is as big as his head.

Fran Katzanek

My daughter graduated from college in 1985. She had a very close friend who is still paying off credit cards. They're not academic type debts. This woman is in her mid-30s, has a wonderful job and wonderful earnings, but so much of it goes to paying off her credit cards for debts incurred 15 years ago.

Rita Ora

My dad wanted me to go down a more academic route. He is very much about sticking to the rule book and sticking to the blueprint of a successful career.

Carolyn Bivens

Morgan is an exceptionally talented young player who will be a terrific addition to the 2006 LPGA Tour. She presents a unique combination of academic and golf achievements, and I am impressed with Morgan's abilities.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

Maybe I was accepted to Harvard only because of my tennis skills, since I definitively had no great academic achievements. I was 17 and only thought about surfing and playing tennis. I had almost never left Rio de Janeiro and had never been to the United States.

Gary Weiss

Numerous academic studies have shown that amateur investors make poor traders - buying stocks for the wrong reasons, holding losers for too long, and acting on whims and emotions.

Alan Horowitz

I've always been a confident person, and this just helped.

Bastien Ripoll

It was very very hard (but) it's great to win a race that worked perfectly. It was exactly what we expected. We were very confident during the warm up and we knew it was our chance.

Bill Simmons

Even though a decision has been made, the war is not over. Some of those jobs we are confident will stay here.

Richard LeVine

You have to have a feel for what's really going to work in the long run, what the issues are that may seem controversial in the short run, ... If you're pretty confident that you've thought it through, you'll go ahead. But if there's a lot of controversy and you actually listen to the opposition, sometimes you decide they're right.

Brian Mason

We were confident that we were going to win. We knew what we had to do in order to get the job done.

Ali Dabagh

We were confident before, but now we are totally confident.

Shane Valdez

I thought Luke wrestled great. Lucas is solid and Luke pretty much handled him. He's right where we want him to be going into state - healthy, confident and feeling strong.

Martina McBride

If I walk out onstage and I get a warm, excited response, it makes me feel so confident and happy, and then it's so easy for me up there.

Jack Rio

I don't think there's any question that this team is going to go over 30 a lot. We feel confident about the way this unit is pulling together.

Grady Jackson

I'll be ready for Detroit. I just have to get the footwork down, get used to pushing and everything again.

Nicole Perrot

Winning is always great, I'm ready for it to happen, but I'm not pushing it,

Antony Starr

I've always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.

Patrick Leahy

I want an end to this thing. But where are we? Do we know what the rules are going to be?

John Tory

Even the rules that are in place are not being followed.

Jim Gallagher

give everyone a sense of equilibrium and ... of where the rule is going to wind up.

Marty Smith

That was two too many. The first rule was you must shower every day.

Stephanie Parker

You just don't want to rule anything out.

Brie Larson

For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Damon Lindelof

I always remember liking school.

Diane Ravitch

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

Dikembe Mutombo

I created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation back in 1997 for the purpose of going in and improving the living conditions of my people on the African continent, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo where I came from. Out first mission was to go and build a new hospital. Our next mission was to build a school.

Anton Yelchin

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

Bruce Boxleitner

I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.

Edward Abbey

Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.

Edward Abbey

Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.

Augusten Burroughs

No matter your spiritual beliefs, if you hold any, the answer is the same: sometimes, why is not knowable. If you open the refrigerator door and a tub of Kozy Shack tapioca pudding tumbles out and splats open onto the floor, you clean it. You don’t stand there and question why it happened, how it was possible. Why doesn’t matter now.

Eckhart Tolle

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

Eckhart Tolle

Become conscious of being conscious.

Eckhart Tolle

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

Deepak Chopra

Time is just quantified eternity.

Deepak Chopra

Instead of asking "what’s the problem?" ask "what's the creative opportunity?

Deepak Chopra

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

Akhmed Zakayev

contradicted the spirit of co-operation and partnership between our countries.

Creed Bratton

I write songs for myself, songs come out of me, I get enjoyment out of it. Basically, that's it - I get enjoyment out of my songs, I know they're good songs, and know that the people around me who I respect are all getting up on these tunes, and the feedback is really good, so that's it. There are people who will receive them, and don't receive them. Not in a spiritual sense, but in a commercial sense - do these songs treat people, and so far they're working.