Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Rodgers

As far as standards and academics I couldn't have made a better choice. I had high expectations for her and she's exceeded those. As a representative for IVC, she's been wonderful. I think she (represents) our best foot forward.

Robert Morse

This isn't being published for the academic community, albeit the academic community is keenly interested in it. From a student and parents' perspective, to know the relative peer standings of a school is important.

Mike Bohn

The University of Colorado is a gold mine ... and we're going to work our tail off to bring a great coach to this program to match the academic standing of this institution. That will be my sole focus.

Jennifer James

Black mothers are deciding to stay home because they want to be there when their children come home after school. They want to take a hands-on approach to their children's upbringing. Some black stay-at-home mothers are also home-schooling because they are tired of low academic achievement and racism of all sorts in the schools.

Dan Berman

You have to make sure the students are highly motivated to pursue their academic interests.

Juan Garcia

You have to be an effective communicator, have a deep understanding of the complexity of a university this size, you should believe in shared governance, understand the academic mission of the university and have strong ethics.

H. Hunt

We've heard nothing at all about the graduation contract since the 2004-05 academic year ended. Nothing has happened at all.

Doug Swink

We will be going out to each academic unit to talk about implementation in order to keep them informed throughout the process. No one will be left in the dark.

Chris Haack

There's no question that playing so close to Athens and the campus has its advantages for us. Travel is very time consuming and taxing physically, especially when you're juggling academic and athletic schedules, so we'll be able to avoid some of that and hopefully be fresher for the NCAA Regional and the NCAA Championships. We also hope these tournaments will give our supporters a chance to come out and watch us play. It means so much to the guys to look into the gallery and see someone wearing a Georgia cap or shirt.

Lynn Sadler

The breeding population there is no bigger than that of the federally endangered mountain lion of Florida - the Florida panther,

Robert Douglas

The sizes of homes keep getting bigger and bigger. We are looking for ways to control the size.

Kim Smith

This is a small district. If they're looking for that kind of money, those kind of benefits, they should be in a bigger district. They're welcomed to leave. They're welcomed to work some place else that can pay them what they want. We can't, it's that simple!

John Reid

This is definitely bigger than homecoming, I'd say.

Scotty Bowman

That's not going to create more scoring chances. Scoring chances are down because that's the way the game is played today. The players are bigger now, there's not as much room to move around. You watch old tapes, which I do quite a bit, it is a different game now.

Martin Chapman

That's just a little taste of what's liable to happen at some point in the not-so-distant future. There's no reason why a much bigger earthquake couldn't happen there.

John Hoffman

We did it for the past four years in Oil City and it gets bigger and better each year.

John McEnroe

Things slow down, the ball seems a lot bigger and you feel like you have more time. Everything computes - you have options, but you always take the right one.

Silvia Pepino

There is a risk (to the recovery from the VAT hike) but since we are seeing stronger growth then there is a bigger chance that the German economy can actually withstand it.

Jose Theodore

People talk a lot about Pittsburgh, but Pittsburgh showed tonight they're really a good team. They have so many skilled players, it's scary to face them.

Fernando Ferrer

Oh, he went into the valley to do battle, and all the smart money was on Goliath. And, then, who had to face 'em?

Armon Johnson

After a while, I think we got a hand in his face and cooled him down a little. But he's a great player. It's tough to stop a shooter when he gets hot like that.

J. Horton

Somebody out there knows this man. I know his face is covered, but if it were my husband and I saw him, I would still recognize his movements and his body.

C.C. Sabathia

Some people may not know us. But I guarantee you that in clubhouses around the league, they know who we are. We don't have to see our faces on TV every night. As long as we're playing in October.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

Douglas Kirkland

The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin; and that gives unrealistic levels of esteem. Somebody feels they're not right because they haven't got that type of refinement.

Granth Sahib

Your Face is so Beautiful, and the Sound of Your Words imparts intuitive wisdom. It is so long since this sparrow-hawk has had even a glimpse of water.

Billy Joel

You see firemen, you see cops, and these guys risk their lives everyday. They do this all the time . . . to be able to see a smile on some of these people's faces -- they've gone through so much, they've lost so many of their friends.

Kazunori Jinnai

The Nasdaq gains gave a gentle nudge higher to a market that was ready for a rebound after last week's losing spell.

Jere Adcock

The most impressive thing to me about him now is how many yards he gains after contact. He doesn't give you a big target to hit, and he's exceptionally strong.

David Briggs

The S&P lost 50 points last week and today we gained back four. This is not great.

Cheryl Smith

The whole thing with the power of prayer in our minds is true. And a lot of what has happened, and the strength he has gained back and progress he's made, without sounding corny, I think a lot is attributed to prayers.

Sarah Bolton

The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work.

Richard G. Scott

I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.

Lisa Johnson

Women are our marketing manual. If you understand them, you'll understand how to gain competitive edge, how to reach men.

Gwin Price

You give up a lot. I gave up my job, my family, the life I had. But I gained so much, too.

Joe Biden

What they gain is not having to tell the American people the truth.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Rebecca Hornbacher

Deb, on the other hand, is one of our most versatile players. She played midfield for her first two years here at ISU, played as a defenseman last year and now is switching back. Once again, she has done a great job with the transition process.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Richard Grimes

The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest pleasures.

Tim Cox

The students have been great and have worked very hard,

Freeman Dyson

It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

Curt Schilling

I don't go out there with the mindset that he did this, now I'm going to better him. This game's too hard.

Hans Rosling

Let the dataset change your mindset

LeBron James

We have a lot better mindset this year. I feel that I am a lot better. I know what it takes down the stretch.

William Carey

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

Jules Verne

I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

Carson Daly

It's hard to be a breakout show and stay on top. We're like the flagship show over here.

Cynthia Nixon

I'd do a show about garbagemen if it was good!

Anthony Jeselnik

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

Alice Barrett

But this is called show business, not show family.

Robert Hilburn

Take any celebrity - all we really know is what they choose to tell us, or what they show us in public.

Veronica Roth

Come on,'he says.' I have something else to show you.

Tommy Tune

I like a show to unfold and keep presenting itself, surprising you.

Steven Van Zandt

I'd never go onstage in my life without fully intending to do the best show you've ever seen.

Pete Carroll

If anything, it shows that we can finish.

Brian Jacques

Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.

Diane Cilento

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

Artur Davis

Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.

Brian Van Holt

Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?

Eckhart Tolle

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

Rush Limbaugh

The best way to create and bring dependent voters in is to bring people that don't have much education and therefore do not have many skills and therefore are not as capable as others of providing for themselves. That's the gold standard in immigration, if you're a Democrat in 2016, 2002, 2000, as long as this current debate has been raging, that's their objective.

Stephen Hawking

Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn

Roy H. Williams

If you want the truth to prevail, you must cause people to realize the truth. This requires much more skill than is required to simply tell it.

Sugata Mitra

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

Gene Miller

The students are coming, and we're going to have to do something to accommodate the growth.

Sathya Baba

The teachers of tomorrow are the students of today.

Ray Romano

I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

Terence Lewis

I was, am and always will be a student…, the day I stop learning, is the day I die.

Willie Smith

If the students see it as something they can put to use, then they are interested.

Richard Skaggs

Some of the students were still out of control.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Human reproduction can be a sticky subject—” “Ewww!” groaned a chorus of students

Roy Barnhart

Our students will not be the only ones using this building.

Annie Dillard

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

Brett Hull

I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.

Brian Tracy

Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Brian Tracy

If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.

Brian Tracy

The more accurately you can think about who you are, what you want to accomplish and how to accomplish it, the more successful you will be.

Brian Tracy

Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have everything you want.

Jamie Dimon

I have gotten disturbed at some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive.

Benjamin Disraeli

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Miley Cyrus

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

Lester Funk

We're 16-4 right now, but we could be 0-20 and the sportsmanship has to be there whether we win or lose.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.