Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Savage

Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.

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.

Max Beerbohm

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

Maria Montessori

The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

Maria Montessori

The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this is the book of the teacher; this is the book which must inspire her actions . . .

Maria Montessori

In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet; they are to serve, and to serve well: to serve the spirit.

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.

Plato

Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.

Bobby Rahal

My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.

Amy Winehouse

I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.

Amy Winehouse

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

Amy Winehouse

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

Amy Winehouse

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Amy Winehouse

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

Alexa Chung

DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I prefer to play older songs because they're the ones I personally enjoy dancing and singing along to and modern dance music bores my brains out.

Drew Carey

I wish I could end every rap song I didn't like with a buzzer.

Doug Davidson

I like to sail. My son Caden and I are avid sailors.

Kenneth Edmonds

So most of the acting that's done are usually Canadians and because it's shot in Toronto, there's this law that you have to use Canadians for extras.

Carter Jenkins

Sometimes it's just a piece of tape. The other day it was a box of cereal. When we're shooting, he's not there; it's all visual effects. Acting is reacting, and when you don't have anything to act to, it's tough.

Michael Gardner

The whole fourth quarter they were acting as if they were behind. I tried to use my timeouts judiciously to calm them down.

J. L. Austin

Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.

Tony Shalhoub

I like to do things that are different from the last thing that I tried. That's the whole purpose of it. That was the reason I got into acting in the first place, to try diverse roles,

Jeff Church

In 1992, the Coterie formed a partnership with the graduate acting program at UMKC to have the third year graduating class make their Coterie debut each January-February. Because the program emphasizes the acting of classical material, the Coterie is able to produce plays that utilize the students' skills.

Jon Nadler

In a world where news stories continue to make ominous ripples, gold is acting like the thermometer of collective global anxiety.

Morgan Freeman

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

Jon Bon Jovi

I would love to be able to do both (acting and making music). If I look at someone like Sinatra, who toured until he was 80 and made 60 movies, that would be a great life to have.