Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think college administrators should encourage students to urinate on walls and bushes, because then when students from another college come sniffing around, they'll know this is someone else's territory.

Robert Vaughn

While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.

Satchel Paige

Don't go to college, unless to get knowledge.

Sargent Shriver

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.

Sargent Shriver

I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.

Sarah Vowell

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.

Santiago Durango

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

Vince Young

I feel like I accomplished everything I wanted to accomplish in college.

Wendy Williams

I know firsthand that educators are the most overworked and underpaid people around. It influenced me in that it was always about family first, and education was right next to that. There was never any question about whether I was going to college.

Susan Ward

Train your staff (if you have any) to be always helpful, courteous, and knowledgeable. Most importantly, give every member of your staff enough information and power to make those small customer-pleasing decisions, so he never has to say, "I don't know, but so-and-so will be back at..."

Susan Ward

The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did!

Lance Armstrong

Fear is priceless education.

Lisa Loeb

I walked away to get wisdom, but in the end I just walked home.

Lisa Loeb

With all the things that you could be, you never could learn how to be me.

John Updike

You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.

John Updike

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

John Updike

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

John Updike

It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.

Dave Piepenbrink

Pitchers want to play for him (Reed). He's got a lot of experience and he's done a good job with the staff.

Ilian Evtimov

Our maturity and experience showed. We finished this game like you're supposed to.... We made plays.

Carl Howe

People have experience with the real world. For most people, the Internet feels insubstantial.

Deirdre Lovejoy

I prefer the paycheck of television and the experience of theater.

Philip Howard

In the rich cities, an Internet user who spends $1 actually gets more out of their experience and finds more Web sites in their language.

Mohammad Khan

In the past decades, all the time our people have had the experience of fighting,

Mark Gertler

In terms of his stature and experience, Kohn would be a natural person to turn to for the vice chairman's job.

Ned Yost

In terms of experience and guys getting better, we've taken that step. We've made the strides that we set out to make this year as far as big-picture stuff.

John Sullivan

If you're interested, please show your support for this proposal. No experience is necessary.

Carmen Dolfo

It's a really disappointing situation. We'll need to work through this. Stephanie is such a wonderful person. She's our big defender, and she just gives us so much.

Kimberly Headrick

It really makes people accountable, as well as gives them insight into personal training. There's someone you're accountable to.

Larry Brown

It's a killer when you lose a quality player like him, especially when you're struggling. It's tough. The way things are going, it gives some other people an opportunity to play and hopefully they get better because of the experience.

Ella Wilcox

This is the way of it, wide world over,One is beloved, and one is the lover,One gives and the other receives.

Ronald Reagan

This law gives you the power to seek the release of Wallenberg, ... The law makes no distinction between honorary and other citizens.

James Evans

They're doing the work that a student would do in an honors course. Putting that label on it makes it more valuable to the student. It shows they are doing more than the other students ? it gives them that edge.

John Tortorella

(They) have not been spectacular, not great, but solid. That gives the team an opportunity to win. That's what we need.

Jeffrey Joerres

There's also the practicality that people are needed to do the work, but I'm not sure whether the third quarter gives us the proverbial hockey stick, ... What our guidance would tell you is we're not seeing that as going to happen in the third quarter.

Felipe Alou

It's a big difference. It gives me a lot of confidence.

Demi Lovato

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Alexander Herzen

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

Will Smith

You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

Jane Gillette

I know orchids don't grow in the wild.

Jamey Bowen

I hope it wasn't a last hurrah. I'd love to see this team grow and stand by my words that we'll win a championship before (Portland).

Terry Boe

I haven't put (too much pressure) on her. My expectations are for her to grow and get better and do it at her pace and her style.

George Eads

I'm just trying to let everything lie and grow right now, I'm not going to pressure myself to do anything that it's right for the time.

Joe Horrigan

I'm sure he (Bell) had no idea it was going to grow into what it is today.

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Alison Sweeney

I love fresh vegetables and we always include them in our meals. I don't force my kids to eat asparagus, but they do eat peas, broccoli, and carrots.

Alison Sweeney

Especially with me working in the entertainment industry, I think my kids are aware of weight and fat much earlier than other kids. It was important to me from the beginning to make sure they understand things like why too much sugar is bad for you, etc.

Alison Sweeney

I have encouraged my kids to eat well from day one. I add flavor - herbs and spices - to everything because I don't want them getting used to starchy, bland food.

Alison Pill

I think it's just different to get married for a woman than it is for a man. The amount of work to overcome certain gender roles in the partnership - just the expectation of housework, kid-work, whatever it is.

Alison Gopnik

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

Anthony Jeselnik

Tom Cruise's pre-nup lets him keep his money, the kids and Katie Holmes.

Anthony Jeselnik

I could see myself adopting a kid someday. But, obviously, I'd prefer it to be aborted.

Anthony Jeselnik

I don't ever want to have kids of my own. But I do want a lot of kids.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Richard Hatch

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

Anderson Cooper

I just found it interesting to talk to adults I admired, and to discover that the path they took was never all that clearly defined. It was comforting to me when I figured out that you don't have to know what you want to do with your life; you just have to take a few steps in one direction, and other opportunities will open up.

Clay Aiken

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

Daniel Dennett

Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical as werewolves. By increasing the information we have about the various causes of the constraints that limit our current opportunities, he has increased our powers to avoid what we want to avoid, prevent what we want to prevent. Knowledge of the roles of our genes, and the genes of the other species around us, is not the enemy of human freedom, but one of its best friends.

David Mamet

Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.

David Fincher

The thing is, that great actors are everywhere. They're everywhere. They're doing good parts on television. They're doing television commercials. They're doing local theater. There are so few opportunities.

David Fincher

I think title sequences are an opportunity to sort of set the stage or to get people thinking in different terms than maybe whatever they understand the movie to be going in.

David Copperfield

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

Kristen Stewart

I want to be an actor, I am just not very comfortable talking about myself.

Kenny G

You can't just walk away when somebody recognizes you. You have to take some time out and talk to them. It's not a waste of time - I just love talking to people. And I don't do this to sell records. The truth is, I do what I do because I love it.

Peter Milligan

When you're alive and everything is going fine, why talk about things? Talking's for later, when talking's all there is that's left.

Prince Philip

I've never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.

Paul Walker

People are often talking when they are not supposed to be.

Terry Pratchett

It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.

Selena Gomez

I'm really nervous, because it's actually happening. You forget after a while when you start talking about something that it's actually going to happen.

Sharleen Spiteri

Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.

Phyllis Bottome

When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.