Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Pam Saylor

He just kind of fit in, personality wise. He was funny, happy. Chandler was the kind of kid that the children always wanted around. He just was kind of the life of the party.

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.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Cam McLeay

Having listened to family, friends, and everyone else, without exception everyone encouraged us to continue.

David Woodruff

His signs are great, probably as good as can be expected at this stage. We're all so encouraged.

Eddie Miller

It comes with the work and help of my teammates. I wouldn't be where I am now if it wasn't for my teammates. They push me, encourage me. Without my teammates, I probably wouldn't have gotten any of those awards.

Dan Daly

We try to encourage faculty to remain faculty. We are providing an environment for more productive faculty members to take their research into commercialization.

David King

We try to encourage everyone to wear a hat. And also have about three coolers of water, plus some Gatorade.

David King

We try to encourage everyone to wear a hat, ... And also have about three coolers of water, plus some Gatorade.

Scott Butler

What we are trying to do here is encourage property owners to properly place these trees around their homes.

Glenn Crooks

Last year I don't think she was as mobile or as strong as she is now. It took her a part of last season to improve. We are fortunate to have her in the program because she knows what it takes to win and encourages her teammates to do the same.

Dusty Baker

I talked to him last night and this is the first time he's been in a playoff situation. I just told him to go enjoy it.

Josh Beckett

He can't even give me a week to enjoy my home run. He has to hit to a shot in the upper deck. He sure can steal the show, can't he?

Greg Behrendt

I don't know if you know you're funny, but you enjoy being funny. I know I'm funny because people tell me I am, but when I watch myself, it doesn't make me laugh. Does that make sense? Because I know the jokes, and to me, I feel like I'm pulling the wool over people's eyes. And there are probably people who do not enjoy what I do.

Norm Parker

The only thing I've ever told myself is I would never do this just to have a job. If I lost my competitiveness . . . then I wouldn't insult the game by (sticking around). But I enjoy being around the kids. I'm having a good time right now.

Chi Rodriguez

Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends. Can Larry Holmes enjoy fighting one of his friends?

Larry Brown

I thought with this young team he was vital for us, ... I wouldn't have enjoyed watching him play handicapped as he is.

Steve Carpenter

I think the ownership is happy and the fans seemed to enjoy themselves. I think the scoreboard reflected that.

John Reed

I thoroughly enjoyed my years at the newspaper. It was a fantastic, wonderful experience, and I had the opportunity to work with some really excellent people. I leave with a heavy heart.

Joe Gibbs

It is fun being in, I'll say that. It's a thrill to be in the playoffs. I really enjoy that part of it. From that standpoint, it makes the day much easier.

Mark Stevenson

We took a lot of feedback from people who were in the event. ... They wanted the route to be more difficult.

John Astin

The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but a positive view of the Gomez phenomenon.

Piero Romano

Not only do they get to learn music and rhythms, but they got to learn about culture. Even if they are younger, they were interested and wanted to learn. It was a lot of fun and the feedback from the parents was amazing. These are songs that wake up the whole soul.

Constable Deforest

We've had a lot of positive feedback from the parents.

Bryan Colangelo

He's an impressive young man, ... The feedback we got from the Pacers organization is that he's a really polished young man, on and off the court.

Dave Riggins

We really would like to get some feedback from consumers.

Jakob Nielsen

The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time.

Dr. Bastian

Overall our feedback has been good. We're hopeful.

Nadine Lemmon

We're at the point where we would like to get public input. We want people to point out if there are other trails we should be looking at, if they have any kind of feedback on the trails or an ideas for them.

Richelle Mead

I stared. "Canadian Satanists? You're sending me to a group of Canadian Satanists?

Reinhold Niebuhr

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.

John Oliver

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

John Lennon

I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.

Troy Diels

A lot of groups come through middle school with high expectations. They'll have to maintain their skills and get better at the same time. People will be gunning for them each time out so they have to come to play. People remember middle school (success) so you have to keep getting better and I think they will.

Jim Sullivan

There were more groups that made records and didn't make it than there were groups that made it. So you can imagine the work that we did.

David Shields

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.

Susan Murray

kind of hard to get to your car.

Laura Lange

I wouldn't say I've progressed since last year. I don't think I'm going to play in college, so this is my last year playing and I'm going to play as hard as I can.

Mark Mulder

Izzy told me the first time you're traded or released and go somewhere else is the hardest. After that, it's no problem. I can now understand why people say that. It wasn't hard making an adjustment. It was just different.

Ron Polk

He used to be a power pitcher, but after shoulder surgery he's had some hard luck.

Joey Cora

He didn't pitch that bad. He threw strikes, and that's the key for him. He didn't get hit hard at all. He just wasn't lucky.

Ben Braun

He can take a lot of pride knowing he is playing for a championship now as he leaves Cal. He has worked so hard over the years.

Hal Chiodo

He keeps it simple and pushes the kids hard and teaches to take pride in your responsibilities.

Gary Pinkel

He just worked hard and got back in, so he's ready to go.

Doug Boxell

He just has that work mentality that he's going to work hard and put it all on the line, and I don't think those people think much about the pressure part of it. They just go in there and do their job.

Epictetus

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.

Jerry Baldwin

A lot of people would come in before work, then at lunch and then now when it's ending.

Mike Foster

They're welcome to e-mail or surf the Web during lunch or while taking a break.

Denzel Washington

When we shot "Cry Freedom," I wasn't even allowed in South Africa. They told me I could come but I wasn't going to leave. I had heavy death threats at that time. So we shot in Zimbabwe.In 1995, I had the privilege and the honor to meet Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela the same day: I had breakfast with Desmond Tutu and lunch with Nelson Mandela. Then I had the good fortune to have Mr. Mandela actually come to my house in California.here's been a tremendous amount of change.

Charles Krauthammer

The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.

Mike Wallace

What's it going to be, lunch or dinner?

Adele

I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather go for lunch with my friends than go to a gym.

Ana Castillo

something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil...

Dolores Huerta

Every single day we sit down to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted, picked, or harvested by a farm worker. Why is it that the people who do the most sacred work in our nation are the most oppressed, the most exploited?

Steven Sacks

You could do projection work onto these other buildings. You'd need permission, of course. Unless you own them.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

Graham Cluley

The worry is that the problems with the patch may have prevented it from being successfully rolled out onto some vulnerable computers.

Jack Messman

the window of opportunity for migrating will be when Vista comes onto the market.

John Updike

Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

Stewart Hall

You got a lot of people targeting 1.12. People are hopping onto the train.

Alfred North Whitehead

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

Paul Nicholls

I think it's a really positive idea and I'm sure I shall be having runners in the first stage at Haydock.

P. Herbert

I think to come out of here, you have to have a positive attitude. I've had remained discipline-free for two years to get this job.

Leigh Steinberg

I don't know what happened, but I know Ricky didn't test positive for anything. Someone made a mistake.

William McDonough

We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.

William James

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

William James

The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time

Sarah Wilson

In life, you may face hard times. But in the face of adversity, always seek to remain positive. What we think, will eventually become our life. And if you think positive, you will have a positive life.

Wayne Dyer

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

William Blake

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Nicole Scherzinger

We're on a wave, ... And we're going to ride it as long as we can.

Patrick Surtain

We told him to get out, but he wanted to ride it out. He was a little stubborn,

Kevin Mahaney

If you're going to ride a bike, the ultimate ride is the Tour,

Tracy Anderson

The trick this year is the '1080'. If you can't do that you won't get on the podium. Riders are airing much better.

David Robinson

This is all just a part of the roller-coaster ride of a winter we're having this year.

Fred Berry

Eighty-seven-thousand riders may not be as many as other areas, but that's still 87,000 riders.

Joe Polizzi

It's too silly. Save it for the ride home.

Megan Smith

I want to ride again. Let me ride one more time,

Jim Clyburn

we're not going to let it ride this time.

Sergei Liakhovich

He said I'm scared of him, but I am scared of nobody.

Larry Rogers

He had to be scared for his life.

Sarah Wayne Callies

I don't watch horror movies because they scare me!

Sara Shepard

Life isn’t worth living if you’re scared all the time.

Sarah Dessen

It's a big deal when you finally get the chance to do the one thing you want to do -need to do- more than anything. It can kind of scare the crap out of you.

Vijender Singh

Scrutiny has never scared me because I have had detractors all my life.

Wyclef Jean

I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.

Estelle

I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.

Neal Shusterman

Who says I'm insane?" "Oh you're sane alright. You're so sane, you scare me. You're so sane, it's insane.

Rachel Carson

Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.

Theodore Roosevelt

Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.

Kevin Sutherland

It's worked out pretty good, but now I need the space.

Carolyn Clark

As you can see, you get really dirty. But you know you worked if you get dirty.

Gene Fraise

It's the same as it is at home. We've always worked together.

Shanna Zolman

There's a lot of things that need to be worked on before we get to where we need to be.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Scott Aukerman

I look back on our productivity in the 'Mr. Show' days, and think, 'We probably could have worked harder.'

Joe Balogh

This was something we worked to get. It was important for us.

Mitch Ashmore

We have not executed well all year on things like that. We made them make a play, and it just worked out well.