Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Frauenfelder

Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until traditional education makes them afraid of making mistakes. The long-term value of making for kids is in learning to become an active participant in the world around them rather than a consumer of prepackaged products and solutions.

Isiah Thomas

I would say that right now we're pretty satisfied with where we are. I don't think we will be actively out shopping and trying to make a deal or anything like that.

Bill Walsh

Joe might have been more active and quicker on his feet,

Bruce Arena

Josh knows that's an area he's got to get better in. He was very active in the first half and part of a lot of good plays. However, he was also part of a lot of others where he could have made a better pass or done something better.

Janice Jackson

John is active here in our Devon Club, which he was president of at one time. He and his wife would attend a lot of the dances here.

Fred Taylor

I suspect that Venus is very volcanically active but we don't know that for certain,

Seth Shostak

Studying Sol's interior by looking for analogous patterns on its incandescent face is known as helioseismology, an active - if largely unpronounceable - research area that uses sound as a probe of our home star.

Q-Tip

I'm in a hallowed league of artists. Whether it's Billie Holiday or Rakim or Jimmy Hendrix or... I don't know, MGMT, we're all blessed to be able to create. It's a lineage that extends a long time. And to be able to be active in it and have made a difference in it, it's humbling. To know I had a place in all of this; that's the rewarding part.

Rich Galen

Having their fingers burned, they're being more active in making sure the Hill knows.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.

Gerard Kennedy

I think the independent report makes it very clear and in very plain language, and it gives the board a fresh opportunity to attend to its affairs on behalf of its students.

Tang Min

It is getting free from tedious affairs in order to serve more as a body that conducts guidance and supervision.

Jack Brooks

I think that there was a substantial shadow government trying to run foreign affairs for the United States.

Boris Yeltsin

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

Liberty Bailey

I have no patience with the doctrine of pure science, that science is science only when it is uncontaminated by application in the arts of life; and I also have no patience with the spirit that considers a piece of work to be legitimate only as it has direct bearing on the arts and affairs of men.

Elizabeth Whitt

I like having some role and responsibility to preparing the next generation of student affairs administrators. I like what I do, I like the students I work with and I like my colleagues. I like working with new students every year and I still find the work that I do interesting and challenging.

King Hussein

I intervened from my sickbed to prevent interference in the affairs of the army in a change that appeared aimed at settling scores and retiring loyal and qualified people.

John McDonough

The first priority in organizing personal affairs is a will that reflects your current family and personal circumstances.

Richard Grenell

Last night and his morning, the human rights commission reform fell apart.

Kolawole Olaniyan

It is not enough for the Nigerian government to initiate an investigation. We need an international commission of inquiry that will report directly to the UN Secretary-General and make its findings public.

Jonathan Todd

It is one year since the Court of First Instance confirmed Microsoft had to comply with the March 2004 decision. The Commission regrets Microsoft has failed to do so. We would prefer Microsoft to comply with the March 2004 decision, and not with their interpretation of that decision.

Jose Barroso

I welcome the speed with which the commission and member states have been able to respond to the urgent request for help.

Mayor Mulder

I don't expect this commission to revisit every issue that we decide because there are few people that are upset. I think it needs to be re-addressed, but we need to make some sort of decision and stick with it.

Harvey Pitt

Our commission has been subject to extremely high attrition, ... with the principle reason being the fact that our employees earn substantially less than their counterparts in the other financial service regulatory agencies.

Jimmy Carter

In 1988, there was no doubt that the election was shot through with fraud. In 1994, there was tremendous improvement. In 1996, the major parties got together and helped to evolve a new electoral law that made an independent commission to conduct the whole election,

Charles Grassley

I'm extremely disappointed that the European Commission has insisted on perpetuating this dispute,

Paul Donovan

The issues that we addressed in our commitments were not material ones. At the request of the commission we made a number of commitments in order to resolve potential antitrust issues, as did Abbott.

Jesus Dureza

Knowing that the uncertain peace and order situation is a major impediment in attaining economic growth for the island, we are anticipating that the current peace efforts will strengthen the enabling environment for investment and growth.

Kenneth Miller

Half of the current rise ... was going on anyway. But that means half of what's going on is not background. It's human induced.

Sam Brownback

Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.

Mick Davis

I think the current market price is a reasonable level.

Ralph Norris

We're probably in a situation where interest rates will stay somewhere around the current levels.

Drew Matus

I think what this does is ratify the Fed's current stance --- moving at a measured pace seems to be the prudent course.

Mahmoud Zahar

I think that during the current tour, we will be able to raise the needed funds.

Phil Goff

It is important in the current situation for steps to be taken to resolve the long-running public sector strike, which has contributed to this tension,

Roger Ashby

I will be talking to the current squad individually over the next few weeks about their futures and once they know, I will make it public.

Bob Tipton

I think that most people that are on those roads are familiar with them, and the rare instance that they aren't familiar with them, we do have two of these signs.

S. Walker

It got really familiar. It's not something you want to be familiar with.

Mike Woodson

He's been here and he's familiar with everything we do.

Randy Sanders

I'm familiar with what he teaches and he does a good job.

Beckie Francis

At least we know the scouting report. Jim Foster does a nice job, but at least we're somewhat familiar with them. Now, we got to go back to work and prepare to play another tall center.

Adam Carriker

We play a tougher schedule, but we can be very good. We have a lot of returning people, and we're familiar with the system. There is no excuse, no reason why we shouldn't be very good and playing in the Big 12 title game.

Vicky Hartzler

We do participate in the government programs, like probably 95 percent of farmers do. People who aren't familiar with the agriculture industry, you know, try and make that look like something exceptional.

Alan Alda

If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a wide range of people understand them better? Would their work be better understood by the general public, policy-makers, funders, and, even in some cases, other scientists?

Nathan Parsons

I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.

Richard Paul Evans

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

Trevor Noah

No one knows what Donald Trump is doing or planning.

Winston Churchill

Plans are worthless. Planning is priceless.

Mary Fetchet

I'm not planning to attend. It will just be too emotionally draining.

Roger Maris

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Marty Sanders

It makes the year-to-year planning very difficult, especially with class-size reduction.

Paula Nelson

The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much...

John Lennon

Life happens whilst you're planning other things.

Brad Jarvis

Then I read the book, 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' and that really got me thinking, ... Until then I hadn't really thought a lot about planning for the future.

Luiz Scolari

There are several teams, and one of them could be Corinthians.

Noam Chomsky

There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they're not implemented fully, because the U.S. won't allow it.

Reinhard Selten

I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations.

John Allen

I had talked to several other guys, but (Jones) was, in my opinion, a better candidate.

Rob Riggle

I've written several pilots that haven't gone, so that's why you haven't seen any.

Rob Hartman

It's been several years since we've had this widespread of flooding, and we're not done.

Dan Smith

They're always tough. Several years ago everyone used us as a measuring stick. Now everyone uses them as the measuring stick.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Paul Sadorf

We should do well in several of them.