Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Lynes

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

William Zinsser

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.

William Jennings Bryan

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

William James

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

Roger Ascham

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Robert Scheer

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

Robert M. Hutchins

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

Salvador Dali

I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.

Salman Rushdie

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

Robert Crawford

What gets measured, gets done. And what gets recognized gets done again, and even better.

Richard Paul Evans

The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.

Rick James

Now is my time. Everything I've done up to this point is just a warm up. This is where it all begins.

Sappho

Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.

Tracy Hickman

How much wrong have we done unintentionally, meaning the best

Vera Wang

Is she going to, or has she done it? Has it happened? What is the story here?

Valentino Rossi

I'm done with F1 unfortunately. I'm too old, the train has passed

Roger Ailes

I've found increasingly less effectiveness with the man-on-the street type of stuff that was very standard fare for years. It can still be effective, but it's got to be done well.

Robin Hobb

Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.

Samuel Johnson

Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.

Terence McKenna

Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.

Bill Wyman

Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.

Donald Miller

I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.

David Foster Wallace

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity

Sienna Miller

I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone's twenties are documented it's not always going to be pretty.

Matt LeBlanc

I started going gray in my early twenties.

Lorrie Moore

We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.

Candace Bushnell

Happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.