Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Lynes

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

William Zinsser

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.

William Jennings Bryan

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

William James

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

Roger Ascham

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Robert Scheer

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

Robert M. Hutchins

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

William Hung

I enjoy tutoring. I just really enjoy the experience of teaching.

William Bennett

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

Rob Reiner

Usually I don't like to act in movies that I direct because it's kind of confusing.

Rob Zombie

I like European movies because it seems those audiences are a little more patient. Those movies are always slower, where over here, the studio system freaks out if something doesn't happen every five minutes or if anything is confusing.

Ronda Rousey

The confusing thing is we now live in a society where it's not illegal to be an asshole, but it's illegal to slap one.

David Irons

I'm just trying to get in the swing of things and learn the new system. It's not what we did last year, so it's real confusing at times.

Bob Matthews

It's already confusing enough. Now that they can make changes, it'll be even more confusing.

Flannery O'Connor

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

Michael Anderson

Cforce does exactly what we need. Working from within Salesforce it was simple to setup and I was immediately able to start sending emails without having to deal with a confusing list import process.

Geraldine Ferraro

Modern life is confusing no "Ms take" about it.

Ian Anderson

Most of what I've written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time when you're going through puberty.

Shelly King

Take parking monitors for instance. How boring would that be unless you had a friend to do it with you?

Janice King

The world sees Christians in a very boring way. We know the younger generation is reaching out to music and whatnot. The image needed to be cleaned up. You can go out and have fun and go to the movies. We spend our money on the same things everyone else does. God created it all, and he wants us all to enjoy it.

Rachel Johnson

Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.

Kelly Macdonald

It can get a bit boring working on accents.

Anne Enright

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.

Diane von Furstenberg

Don't let any of your good habits get boring.

Chita Rivera

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.

kim booher

Prayer is communication. If prayer is boring or pointless then the relationship is dry.

Ron Murphy

It was a boring game; we took it to them right away.