Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.

Robert Osborne

For a lot of filmmakers, their first goal is to be successful and make some money. But once people start doing that, the real goal is then to win an Academy Award. Because when they do, they know that their obit is going to start out, 'Academy Award winner so-and-so.'

Ronald Kessler

The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

Malcolm McDowell

It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.

Shawn Amos

Like any self-governing group of people, the Recording Academy has made missteps over the years. Still, it has corrected course and done more to open its arms to the future than nearly any other industry group around.

Jahangir Khan

Let's face it. There is no setup in Pakistan to train and groom young players at the grassroots level in different sports. Those of us who did make a name for ourselves and became champions did it with our own initiative - there was no academy to back us till we reached a certain level on our own.

Mark Ishikawa

Screeners have been distributed to Academy members and many of them are already appearing online.

Sean Conway

Senator Allard wants them to look at the Air Force Academy from leadership through process.

David DeMartini

Much like he had an opportunity to work with Puzo and kind of evolve the book into a screenplay - which obviously required some modification to what Puzo had done - I just hope that he respects that we were targeting a different customer and we're trying to keep this fiction alive. The book's a great book; the movie's Academy Award winning; and hopefully the game will get a tremendous amount of acclaim as well. Just respect each of those works for what they are, I think that's the best way for us all to look at it.

Richard Andrews

loves the idea of kids going to see rock 'n' roll icons and seeing the Impressionists, maybe for the first time. We've done such a slick job of eliminating the arts from the schools that Allen's effort is especially important.

Paul Chambers

Many of us have seen images or read about the devastation down there. This is a tangible way for the performing arts community to get together and help out.

Norm Dicks

Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.

Patricia Lopez

My friends, all Hispanic girls, we went to school with the kids from North, Central and Alhambra, and we discovered we were not attuned to their level. 'Are they smarter than us?' we asked, ... I learned later about the arts and grammar. I don't want our kids to feel at a disadvantage when they reach high school.

Andre Breton

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Doc Severinsen

Music and the arts are not just something to make people feel good. They elevate the soul and broaden the entire personality. It's easy to say they aren't needed because culture seems intangible. But not having it deprives young people of a cultural heritage.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Richard Corley

No other performing arts group has had to go two years without a home space.

Milla Jovovich

When you're able to survive a martial arts workout session, it definitely builds your stamina and builds your tolerance.

Tom Hoffman

We're not being propelled in one direction or another by any external timetable that is being imposed upon us.

Stephen Leacock

Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions

Dave Cottle

Last year we were 5-5 at this spot. We didn't want to be there again. We talked all week that all of our goals are still in front of us. We're headed in the right direction but still have a lot of work to do.

Scott Young

Lee's really got 'em going in the right direction.

Norbert Haug

Many people would probably like this partnership, but there are neither talks nor intentions in this direction.

Larry Colagiovanni

Several drivers traveling in the same direction as Smith said he ran the red light. He wasn't even close.

Bruce Peterson

Seniors are just going to be pounded with information from every direction,

Kevin Ayers

Soft Machine were going more in the direction of fusion jazz and I didn't like that.

Roberto Suro

Much of their future lies there, ... The high school dropout rates are all going in the right direction and are improving. They have gotten better for the second generation.

Jennifer McMahon

I graduated with a B.A. from Goddard College in 1991 and then studied poetry for a year in the M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College.

John Davies

I graduated in June 2005 with a GPA of 3.021.

Edward Hill

I graduated from medical school in 1964 and we had never heard of these different kinds of E coli,

John Glover

I graduated from high school in '62 and I didn't know any people who were gay. I'm sure there were people, but I didn't know any. For years and years, I guess, I was very uptight about being a gay actor. I thought it would make me less hirable.

Vinny Guadagnino

I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.

Patricia Lessnerkraus

She graduated from high school with perfect marks.

Ving Rhames

Since I graduated college, all I have ever done for a living was acting.

Ving Rhames

I graduated on a Friday. By Monday, I was doing Shakespeare in the Park.

Elizabeth Warren

I graduated law school nine months pregnant and didn't take a job.

Robert Toombs

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

Richard Garnett

Liberal justices like Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg think as highly of him as someone like Clarence Thomas. I think that's a testament to the respect he enjoys.

Chris Healy

Lieberman has high marks on Iraq but he is still very much a liberal and we are Republicans.

Bob Mulholland

Look who has the highest percentage. Neither of them.

Ellen Tolley

Looks like last-minute shoppers lived up to their high expectations.

John Christiansen

Last year we had an accelerated program, so this year, to take an accelerated program to a higher level, it's safe to say that because of 318A.

Tom Davies

Last year, the winds were around 25 to 26 knots out of the north. This year, it was even higher winds, but out of the south.

Charles Greene

less respect for high standard and more interest in high enrollment.

Vince Cable

Many voters still...associate us with high taxes and big spending.

Matt Will

No one is better situated than we are in Indiana to do this.

J. Hoover

You'd like to see Indiana State a little later on in the schedule, but what are you going to do? We just have to get ourselves ready for that match. No excuses.

James Navolio

Kentuckians in 2004 paid $236-million in taxes in Indiana and Illinois. I find that offensive.

Brad Huse

I talked with him last week. But I had no idea the Indiana thing was going down.

Ron Edmonds

Pittman is tough. She's an outstanding player. I'll vote for her as an Indiana All-Star.

Clark Kellogg

I think Indiana has those things in place but not necessarily so much more than a lot of other places.

Corey Feldman

Fans have always said that I would make a great Indiana Jones, a great Young Indiana Jones.

Steve Alford

Indiana went about it a little different in how they did their search. I never got a phone call. I was never contacted.

Mitch Daniels

In many ways, I think it's time for Indiana to lead,

Albert Schweitzer

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

David Circle

Let them know that you support music programs.

Dan Hill

Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.

Janice Stockigt

Several of its themes and musical motifs are strikingly similar to those present in other Vivaldi works.

Grimes

My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.

Laura Mvula

One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

H. Hart

Music is feeling. Once you start thinking about it then you overdevelop it. It should come from the heart, the soul, and the subconscious. Music is all about the moment, and if you think about it then you're already in the next moment.

Rutina Wesley

Music is definitely influential on how I approach my scenes.

Daron Malakian

Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.

Kelly Golob

Scoring points has never been a priority. It's always been the team's success.

Ken Goldstein

One of the things this points out is that we're on the road to recovery, but the road is going to be bumpy -- it always is.

Mark Dyer

Obviously, we're getting closer. At some point in the calendar, we have to have negotiations with the one it comes down to.

Jeff Shaffer

No one point is more important than another.

Mike Heimerdinger

No. I don't have a point of reference.

Heather Bowie

No, I don't feel like I have a point to prove. I don't think there is anything to prove.

Julie Robertson

No point in going out of here too early. We'll take all the time we can get.

Dennis Ritchie

A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.

Mike Graham

(Girard) has pushed him to the point where his serve is much better.

Tony Ierulli

Seven interceptions has got to be a school record.

Chuck Eddy

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

Jonathan Bennett

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

David Walliams

When I was at school I was watching The Young Ones,

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.

Chris Cuomo

I've always been a fan at home. That's the one joke I have with Sam [Champion]. "I've always loved you! I remember wanting to be you in grade school!"

Chris Crutcher

Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

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.

Charles Morgan

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

Eliphas Levi

Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent!

David Epstein

When we started studying it in 1998, frankly, it worked much better than we ever anticipated.

Maria Mitchell

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Prince

I have friends that are gay, and we study the Bible together.

Charles Spurgeon

The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author Himself is far better.

Howard Schnellenberger

We'll be getting the tape tonight and be studying them.

Bill Johnson

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

Joe Pannunzio

We're going to have a two-a-day, but it's going to be academic. We're going to study two times today.

Madeleine Albright

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

Wendy Kopp

The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.

Chris Crutcher

If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it.

Avi

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

Mary Quant

As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.

Catherine Johnson

If you've ever been in a classroom, you know these teachers are underpaid.

Peggy Smith

Some teachers are better with adults and some aren't.

Dave Craig

Saturdays we always have a lot of browsers -- teachers and tourists.

Lars Mikkelsen

I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

Vince Young

We're not going to be scared. We're going to be pumped. Nervousness is not a part of the University of Texas.

Margaret Garcia

We don't know. Mia didn't play soccer. She was a cheerleader all her life. She cheered for (the University of Colorado).

Derek Bok

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

Ben Barnes

I actually went to university.

Adolf Hitler

For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius.

Adam Ross

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

Ryan Lynch

I think this will show the university that we are a responsible community.

Bill Gates

I didn't completed my University Education