Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dontrelle Willis

I did it twice in the bullpen, as well, ... It's funny. They still believed in me. I thought I was going to get released after that. I thought I was horrible. They definitely saw something that I didn't.

Kevin Porter

I found out the next day, after I'd gone public that I wasn't going to run, that the city manager probably wasn't coming back and so I decided to stay in the race. With Jared leaving and a new mayor coming in, I believed it could be a benefit for me to stay.

Joanne Harris

I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that catch on to the hem of your skirt when you've been sewing, and different colored threads would mean different things... Of course, all that influenced me quite a lot as a child.

Marjane Satrapi

If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise. But we are not living in paradise, we are living in hell. What does it mean? That means the majority of people are wrong. So I never believed what people told me.

Steve Barnett

If you had told me two years ago that we'd have that kind of increase, I wouldn't have believed it, ... It's been phenomenal. They're a great bunch of kids and have worked extremely hard.

Agnus Berenato

If you look at the shooting, the fact that we got 70 shots was amazing. I think that's a sign that they believed they could make the shot and a good majority of them went in and out.

Wes Kooistra

In this particular building it was believed that the window structure met the requirements as a secure perimeter. Obviously, after what happened on Saturday night, it did not. It was breached and we're looking at changes right now.

Jason Molina

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

Cara Enright

I just loved the energy that coach brought to practice every day and the way she never gave up on us, always believed in us. She made us love the game even more, and we played our hearts out every single time we stepped on the court.

Mark Takano

You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

Brad Turner

They haven't changed defensively since 1991 when we went there and Coach Rush was the defensive coordinator,

Willie Nelson

What has changed is that nothing has changed. . . . That's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something

Scott Milburn

As we move forward we will of course be looking for opportunities to find savings on top of what we have already proposed.

Rick Clancy

We plan on revealing more in the course of quarterly earnings announcements or as specific developments dictate.

Nick Davis

We said at the time we were very unhappy with that course of action.

Larry Daniel

We as a state have benefited from it and of course the recipients have benefited from it.

Judy Outlaw

We will evaluate it go through each of the recommendations. Of course it's going to have to be a prioritizing of what is financially feasible and what is practically feasible and whether it goes with our mission or not.

Ed Adler

We would of course speak with any interested shareholder of relevant thoughts and perspectives. We have informed Icahn that we'd be happy to meet.

Bob Becker

We would like to get at least one course open, but I don't know how we could do that. We have no staff or equipment. We can't do anything.

Jules Verne

The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not yet been utilized, for the very good reason that they have not yet been discovered.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Bobby Cox

He looked like a 20-game winner today. He really did. He can't pitch any better than he did today.

Phil Garner

We send them (Marlins) out of town with no change. After those first two games, it looked bleak.

Jurgen Moltmann

Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.

Paula Abdul

And I have been taught never, never to lie,

Maya Angelou

At our best, we're all teachers

Meg Whitman

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

Maria Montessori

The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.

Nick Harkaway

People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you're a teacher you're in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they're old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern. Religion? So long as you don't actually think about it. Otherwise some furious mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch.

Michael Jackson

The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote.

Herbert Spencer

Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts in his memory in a way that no mere information heard from a teacher, or read in a schoolbook, can be registered.

Ellen Barkin

I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

Sandra Cisneros

I was reading Emily Dickinson and Edwin Arlington Robinson, but these weren't the poets that influenced me. I think Gwendolyn Brooks influenced me because she wrote about Chicago, and she wrote about poor people. And she influenced me in my life by giving me a blurb. I would see her in action, and she listened to every single person. She didn't say, "Oh, I'm tired. I gotta go." She was there, and present, with every single person. She's one of the great teachers.

Rory Bremner

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.