Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. Laing

Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Jenny Nimmo

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

Jack Horn

This is a serious problem nationally and statewide as well as in the county, ... Solano County has been particularly proactive, signing people up on various programs, particularly children with the SKIP program, but it's still a serious problem, no question about it.

Jonathan Jackson

You're probably saving money if you factor in the grief . . . of dealing with children in the supermarket. I think it will take off in the suburbs, particularly.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

Barbara Jordan

We must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker's child to miss school in order to earn...just so the family can eat. That is the moral bankruptcy that trickle-down economics is all about.

Barbara Park

There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.

Barbara Mertz

Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

Stephen Roberts

Productivity hasn't met the high hopes held out for it and, as a result, has pretty much dropped off the radar screen for economy watchers.

Carlos Casteneda

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you

Jane Bryant

Term rates keep dropping and dropping and dropping; it's just amazing.

Jerry Palm

Tennessee is dropping like a rock. It's looking like whichever team ends up with the higher seed (UNC or Tennessee) will end up in Greensboro with Duke.

Mike Heffernan

The rounds played is down about 5 percent this year, ... The season passes are down ... about 20 percent. But even though the number of passes sold dropped 20 percent, the number of rounds played dropped only 5 percent.

Aaron Rodgers

I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.

Phil Brown

There would be no better man to replace Eriksson. Sam would have no problems dropping big-name players.

Charles Carroll

What we made them do was re-mark it regular and drop the price down to regular price,

Sedrick Ellis

We have heard a lot about losing Shaun and Mike, but I don't think there will be any drop off at all.

Ben Nelson

Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to best distribute a drought-limited water supply among urban, rural and recreational uses, require careful deliberation.

Jane Austen

You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.

Demetri Martin

If you happen to catch on fire during the show, do not panic or wave your arms around or scream or we wil give something to panic and wave you arms around and scream about.

Bobby Scott

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

Jack Jones

With humidity as low as this, you don't watch the fire creep, you just have to get out of its way, because it is moving quickly.

Dick Francis

How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such a wilderness; and yet the change in us was irreversible, and neither of us would even search for a way back. It was impossible. The fire was out. Only a few live coals lurked in the ashes, searing unexpectedly at the incautious touch.

Anne Sexton

Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins....

Ann Richards

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

Simone Elkeles

Gettin' near the fire, chica, doesn't necessarily mmean you'll get burned.

Terry J. Lundgren

I read so much data. There's so much information that comes my way. And there's got to be a way for me to delegate more.

Clay Shirky

Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.

Meg Wolitzer

The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

So, the three qualities of a workplace that would develop people would be information sharing, investing in the training of the workforce, and giving employees the ability to use their training and information to make decisions.

Maryann Jakubczyk

We need $200,000 roughly in donations. We will soon be putting information on our Web site as to what we need.

Mel Netzhammer

I think information is good. Getting information to the students is important.

Hans Blix

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

John O'Connor

What we were trying to do was inform the public.

Rob Baskin

I think the key is to share the information you have when you have it with the public, with the press, with regulatory or governmental officials. That's important, to be open and transparent with communications.

Jerry Woolsey

It was tough for us to keep up with them. They got on a roll and shot really well.

Jennifer Schack

We could see a shower in today's forecast. We could see a storm roll through.

Derek Lowe

I think it's tough for everybody. We can't just go out there and roll over and die. ... To see where we are right now is very disappointing.

Don Cassidy

You don't have to be 75 to use a rolling wire basket.

Cameron Bennerman

This is 2006. We're just trying to keep this thing rolling while we're here.

Austin Stowell

I want to get out there and do anything, but I still don't know about riding roller coasters. I've never been on one. There is something about being strapped in and on a track; I always feel like we're going to be launched off somewhere.

Paul Ernest

We didn't throw a lot, but when we did, we were successful,

Dan Hawkins

Very talented, I like the way he throws the football,

Yasmin Sewell

You can even throw them in the washing machine.

Willie Randolph

I don't like throwing superlatives around, but you've got to like what you see.

Jim Tracy

All Scott Strickland has done is throw strikes.

Maureen Allyn

This may be what throws us into recession.

Michael Robinson

They're in my ear, 'Tell 'em to throw it deep, Mike, throw it deep. They want the ball, and they're going to make some plays.

Andre Johnson

We know we're not out there trying to throw games. If we were really trying to lose, how did we win this one?

Nathan Paetsch

We're not mathematically eliminated, we're not going to throw in the towel.

Buster Keaton

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

J. D. Salinger

It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.

Samuel Beckett

In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.

William C. Bryant

And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in.

Wendell Berry

I have always loved a window, especially an open one.

Dave Barry

Someone was tapping on the window.