Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Sheffield

Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.

Richelle Mead

You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you’re less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone—not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee—push you around.

William Zinsser

Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written and looks at it with the objectivity of a plumber examining a newly piped bathroom to see if he got all the joints tight.

William Sanderson

The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.

William Matthews

Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided--the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity.

William Wordsworth

Let Nature be your teacher

William Saroyan

Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man.

William Nicholson

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

William James

From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.

Wanda Sykes

I felt like I was being attacked, personally attacked - our community was attacked. Now, I gotta get in their face. I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman. And I'm proud to be gay.

Mila Kunis

When gay people can get married, then I'll get married.

Jose Antonio Vargas

One of the things I had to really wrap my head around is I have no control over what people call me: advocate, activist, gay, Filipino, undocumented person, gay person with an Asian face and Latino name.

Kevin Rudd

If you accept it to be natural and normal to be gay then it follows it is not right for two folk who love each other to be denied marriage,

Kenneth Cole

Gay people getting married? Next, they'll be allowed to vote and pay taxes.

Kellan Lutz

I don't Google myself, but I've heard that people think I'm gay. I've heard it all.

Harvey Fierstein

When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we're under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness.

Harvey Fierstein

When I went into 'Fiddler,' I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye.

Harvey Fierstein

There's nothing I need from anyone except love and respect, and anyone who can't give me those two things has no place in my life.

Lynda Carter

Having them go to these premieres with me and tell me that they are proud of me is pretty cool.

Greg Zipadelli

What I'm proudest of this season is how we've battled throughout every weekend,

Rick Barnes

He had to step back and look at a lot of things. I'm proud of him, because he took a tough situation and got the most out of it.

Rex Ryan

I can't tell you how proud I am to be the head coach of the Buffalo Bills.

Robin Tunney

I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do.

Robert Schumann

I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.

Roseanne Barr

I'm fat and proud of it. If someone asks me how my diet is going, I say 'Fine - how was your lobotomy?'

Roh Moo-hyun

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

Yoko Ono

Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.