Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Rockwell

I would take the wrong approach for a teacher, I guess... But there was always someone in a class who would raise an objection to my way. They'd want to get into an argument with me. And I was no good at arguing. So I figured if that was what teaching was like, I better leave it to someone who knows how to maneuver an argument. I'd stick to what I knew-painting. So I didn't stay long at the Los Angeles County Artists School.

Dennis Taylor

There are so many great teams in the Los Angeles area, ... After I retired (from UCLA) and got into coaching club diving, it was like starting from scratch. It's harder to get back on top now, the sport is so good.

Antonio Villaraigosa

has worked to relieve traffic congestion, reduce the impact of development on city streets and ensure the safety of the millions of drivers who commute on Los Angeles streets.

Brad Smith

In the next few years, we're looking to cluster stations and vehicles in the Los Angeles and New York areas.

Jason Lewis

I'm wary of the whole Los Angeles scene. I'm a California kid, but there's a difference between California and Los Angeles. L.A. is urban. California is restorative.

Robert Stromberg

I moved out to Los Angeles with the idea of becoming a director, which thousands, if not tens and hundreds of thousands, of people do, every year. It's a very competitive field, of course. I immediately got swept away into the visual side of things, starting with visual effects, and then designing.

Kayla Ewell

I'm one of the only actresses in Los Angeles who has never waited tables - yet - and I'm so terrible at holding trays. When we shot the 'Vampire Diaries' pilot, I totally spilled water all down Nina Dobrev, and she had to get her hair and make-up redone.

Jim Haslett

I flew out to Los Angeles to tape a one-hour show, and it took 5 1/2 hours. I called my wife and said, 'Screw this stuff.' I just wanted the opportunity to coach again. I'm around guys who are friends and good football coaches. I think it's going to be a good experience.

Tim Leiweke

I'm very grateful to Dave and appreciative of his 29 years of service to the Los Angeles Kings. He has been loyal to the Kings sweater from day one and continues to be. We have offered him an opportunity to remain with the organization in a capacity to be determined. That decision is his and will be dependent on his discussions in the future with our new leadership.

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Kerry Nelson

Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.

Britt Ekland

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

John Romano

Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.

Tony Buzan

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

Sugata Mitra

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

Sugata Mitra

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Sugata Mitra

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

Ann Veneman

There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need.

Theodore Roosevelt

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a meance to society.

Gary Turner

I thought, we need to educate people and teach them how to fish. It just seemed natural.

Dan Levin

I personally am hoping to educate people about housing up here and how Long Gulch Ranch fits into the housing priorities here.

Richard Askey

The first thing we need to do is educate our prospective teachers much better.

Jose Marti

To Educate is to Free.

Eugene Parker

Once they make that decision, you can't really look back. I lay out their options and educate them on the risks. We just want to make sure that they make an informed decision, not an emotional one.

Peter Judge

It's really important to educate yourself and your family. It behooves you to read and understand that calendar.

Robert Hutchins

The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives

Carol Roberts

It's great that Texas has taken our students at a time when we can't educate them. But eventually, I think, people will come back home. It's human nature to rebuild - and I think that's what will happen. In the long run, our school will be better.

Chuck D.

Historically that (bass) number is way, way down. The same with threadfin - their numbers are up, but it's still way, way down from historic levels.

Ed Harris

I don't have the luxury of the firsthand historical knowledge that you have. You'll probably find the same thing with the board.

William J. Clinton

We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.

Will Eisner

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

Will Durant

Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.

Vladimir Lenin

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Rudolf Otto

That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable.

Wes Craven

A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.

Wilfred Owen

If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable

Davis Love

Jack's got a loss and a tie. We'd like to get him a win.

Debbie Carter

He said he got disoriented and lost his sense of direction.

J. Horton

He's been there and done that. He won some big games, he lost some tough games. He made some big plays, he missed some plays.

Paula Carico

What do you do in a situation like this? I'm at a loss for words.

Gary Powers

When he walked Christensen, I thought he had lost it. I let him stay for two more batters and got us in a jam.

Derrick Landrus

To come back after the tough loss in the first game, we needed that.

Julian Sensley

I think we just got by on talent. If we were playing a WAC team right now, we might have lost this game.

Chad Kroeger

I was very upset, and for two months, if I saw his picture somewhere I would get angry, ... I hadn't lost somebody to a shooting before - it wasn't as though he'd been killed in some sort of accident. He was taken in such a horrible, malicious way that just made it more painful.

Antonio McDyess

I was a little more motivated for the win. It was my first finals. To lose like we did, I'm going to remember it for the rest of my life.

Simon Clark

We're obviously disappointed in that this is a massive shift in terms of restrictions on smoking in public places. However, it could have been a whole lot worse.

Marketing Manager

It is, however, quite rare to have a player have two massive wins within such a short space of time.

Judy White

This has been so very massive and different from any other we've had.

Matt Williams

It's a massive task for us, but it's not something that we're running away from.

Ruud Lubbers

We are preparing for a massive relief operation,

Ed Sheeran

I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.

Gitesh Pandya

Star Wars' is going to be a massive hit,

Giorgio Moroder

One of the most interesting things, at least for me, are the soundtracks for 'The Social Network' and 'Drive.' Basically, it's what I did in 'American Gigolo.' I could have done the music for those movies blindfolded. And one of them won an Oscar, and the other is this massive soundtrack.

Brian Kemp

To say that this is going to be big is just a massive understatement. I don't know how much money we'll make, but I would say the word is billions.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Nancy Frazier

I want to make a statement to other businesses,

Niklaus Wirth

Go To statement considered harmful.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

John Esposito

Frankly, I find (such accusations) humorous. A lot of these statements are ideologically or politically motivated.

Erick Jensen

If they wrestle like they did this weekend, we could make a statement at states.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

David Williams

They are truly the ones that do all the real work.

Jillian Messenger

I truly have a lot of all-stars on this team, I really do.

Julie Foudy

It wasn't just that we were together; we were truly a family. There was always laughter.

Dianna Agron

Without love we are not truly living.

Jaime Contreras

Some days, work is truly a four-letter word.

Shaukat Aziz

This truly encapsulates China's world view in this century,

Jonathan Todd

We think he will be a truly independent adviser.

Barbara Green

Those who complained truly feel that they are discriminated against, they truly feel that way.

Carrie Fisher

I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.

Jacob Zuma

Something has gone wrong with Ronnie... He wasn't like that before. I don't know what went wrong with him.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

Paul Wolfowitz

I wish there were somebody I could be comfortable voting for. I might have to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though I have big reservations about her.

Joss Stone

The recession is everywhere. We need to be heard. Wouldn't it be great if there could be more referendums so we could have regular voting on specific points?

James Madison

There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.

Bob Barr

Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.

Peter Rodman

don't go to the latrine without voting in parliament. This is not helpful.

Amy Walter

Cuellar has some vulnerabilities with his voting record. But I just don't think Ciro is doing everything to make this as competitive as it could be.

Alan Trammell

This year, if I'm voting, I'm voting for Colon.