Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Russell Lowell

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

Marty Nemko

As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their wisdom, their humor, their failings.

Thomas A. Edison

I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.

John F. Kennedy

Fail miserably, achieve greatly!

Hermann Hesse

How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?

Hans Zimmer

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

Timothy Roemer

This kind of grade -- unfulfilled, insufficient, minimal progress -- those grades are failing grades ... That is an unacceptable response.

Kate Atkinson

It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.

David Mitchell

How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!

Bob Stanley

I knew him a lot of years in grade school,

Frank Raffone

That means more kids have passed it before getting to 12th grade and don't have it hanging over their head right now.

W. Hull

I've been sitting waiting the whole year. Since ninth grade I wondered what I'd do after high school. They say they want me, I'm there.

Louis Zamperini

I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.

Stephen Bollenbach

We like to have an investment grade ... now one of our objectives is to grow income and pay down debt.

Les Paul

We're switching the sounds, not so much the tone of the instrument. And when things seem impossible, it's back to grade school, soldering, re-developing - always building.

Paul Morse

There's some guys looking at him, so he needs to get his grades in order. There are people that want him. He's just got to get the test score to get in.

Shane Voss

We monitor their grades throughout the season, and provide a (mandatory) study hall.

Frank Godina

He was always sports-minded. He played soccer and in ninth grade was (Conneaut Valley's) starting goalie. He was very successful.

Paul Morse

There's some guys looking at him, so he needs to get his grades in order. There are people that want him. He's just got to get the test score to get in.

Shane Voss

We monitor their grades throughout the season, and provide a (mandatory) study hall.

Dave Andrews

The leakage is reduced to very minimal amounts.

Jim Struzzi

You're going to have some traffic restrictions, but we're going to try to make those as minimal as possible.

David Nicholson

For the most part the philosophical differences are minimal between party members.

Stephen Hadley

I would say that is some real progress.

Samuel Johnson

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

Walt Disney

Progress is impossible without change

Samuel Johnson

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

Melanie Sloan

Particularly in the House, the progress is very slow and may end up with very little reform.

Robert Einhorn

In retrospect, we impeded a lot more of their progress than we knew.

Hossein Entezami

The continuation of talks shows there is progress.

Khalil Gibran

You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.

Kevin A. Ford

Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.