Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Kenneth Galbraith

People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.

John Daly

The only way I'll ever make the Ryder Cup team is when I become captain; then I can name myself to the team.

John D. MacDonald

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.

John D. Rockefeller

What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario, labor negotiator, diplomat, educator, publicity and public relations expert, politician, skilled businessman, a social sophisticate, a servant of the community, a tireless leader - becomingly humble before authority - a teacher, a tyrant, and a continuing student of the arts.

John Chaney

I don't want a team that escapes from reality and escapes from the truth. I don't want people who are always escaping, who always have a story and are always conniving. An ostrich tries to escape from the truth. Isn't an ostrich the thing that puts its head in the sand? But guess what's sticking out when he does it? It's ass, that's what. I don't want a team like that......Because when you have a team like that and trouble comes, that team will not face the trouble.

Lisa Edelstein

When I wake up, I always drink tons of Guayaki organic yerba mate tea.

Lionel Messi

I never had any problems with my height. I was always the smallest kid, at school and in my teams.

Lionel Messi

When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, personal records are secondary.

Lionel Messi

I'm lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground.

Lionel Messi

It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.

Lindy Ruff

You believe you can make it every year. You don't think it's going to end. But the reality is that most teams, you end up in, you end up out.

Lindsey Vonn

I have a race routine. I have a team of people helping me. I have winning habits. I believe in myself. I have balance in my life.

Lindsey Vonn

I'm proud to be part of any Olympic team.

Linus Pauling

In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.

Lindsay Thompson

My goal is to get on the national team. People joke that we'll be able to go to Beijing in 2008, but it's just jokes right now. Hopefully I'll be able to make it a reality.

Linda Ronstadt

In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.

Linda Lael Miller

No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people.

Linda Howard

Sign by elevator put up by computer geeks in office building: REMEMBER: FIRST YOU PILAGE, THEN YOU BURN. THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLY WILL BE SUSPENDED FROM THE RAIDING TEAM. In Mr Perfect

Linda Evangelista

I'm part of a team that raises millions of dollars and raises awareness of HIV and AIDS all over the world.

Linda Evangelista

There was a time when everyone remembered that stupid thing about me not getting out of bed for less than $10,000 a day. These days, it's far more important to me that I'm part of a team which raises over $1 million a month for Aids. I'm much more proud of that, than that other old quote.

Lilith Saintcrow

He wiped away the tears, tenderly, and I forgot to weep as he told me silently everything I always wanted to hear.

Leon Battista Alberti

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.

Leo Tolstoy

The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.

Leo Tolstoy

People continued regardless of all that leads man forward to try to unite the incompatibles:;: the virtue of love, and what is opposed to love, namely, the restraining of evil by violence. And such a teaching, despite its inner contradiction, was so firmly established that the very people who recognize love as a virtue accept as lawful at the same time an order of life based on violence and allowing men not merely to torture but even to kill one another.

Gayle Forman

I want to make her cry and then lick up the tears.

Gary David Goldberg

A good team, like a good show, comes into being when the separate individuals working together create, in essence, another separate higher entity - the team - the show - which is better than any of those individuals can ever be on their own.

Lois McMaster Bujold

What you are is a question only you can answer.

Logan Henderson

My whole family is really tight-knit. We're a really good team.

Lloyd Kaufman

I was going to be a teacher and improve the world. Teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and teach bums to draw happy faces on beads.

Logan Mankins

I always was flattered when people would say I would do whatever it took for the team. I always thought of myself as that kind of guy.

Lynda Resnick

As places of learning, schools have a responsibility to also educate on nutrition, which we all can agree is far more important than algebra, no matter what your third-period teacher claims.

Luke Ford

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

Luke Evans

Not everybody's a great singer, but people can get better at singing. There's great singing teachers out there. It's a muscle, you just have to train it.