Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Damon Lindelof

I always remember liking school.

Billy Childish

I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.

Bobby Fischer

She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that I should get friends outside of chess, you can't make a living from chess, that I should finish high school and all that nonsense. She keeps in my hair and I don't like people in my hair, you know, so I had to get rid of her.

Brie Larson

For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school. For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.

Brendon Urie

I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.

Ludwig von Mises

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

Charles Spurgeon

We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy.

Cardinal Richelieu

I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.

Arianna Huffington

I have one piece of advice for you: sleep your way to the top.

Diane Cilento

I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I can't sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.

Bill James

A chart of numbers that would put an actuary to sleep can be made to dance if you put it on one side of a card and Bombo Rivera's picture on the other.

Bill Hicks

Nonsmokers--this is for you and you only. Ready? Nonsmokers die every day. Sleep tight.

Elbert Hubbard

Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.

Ben Huh

The worst thing in the world is to be bland.

Tom Ferrell

Tonight, I will think about it a lot before I go to sleep. That is if I can get to sleep.

Joseph Biden

No. 1, on the police training, we've wasted 17 months,

Frank Serpico

The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.

Robert Peel

The police are the public and the public are the police

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.

Joseph Wambaugh

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

Karl Turner

It seems like to me, police made a lot of procedural errors.

Nikolai Shepel

They took back roads and there may have been no police posts, so that's why they got through without obstacles,

John Campbell

They said, 'we could protect you if you'll tell us what you know,' ... But she said, 'I don't know anything,' and left. There is no allegation that the police took any affirmative step at all to provide protection.

Matt Strauss

It's the No. 1 destination for police in Price Hill.