Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Inslee

What the president did was wrong; he should be censured, but not impeached. Rick White and Newt Gingrich shouldn't be dragging us through this. Enough is enough. It's time to get on with the nation's business.

Alan Turing

The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely.

Tony Stewart

When I'm not dragging the team down, I think it helps all of us, ... When the one person who is dragging everybody back gets on the same page and does his part, it makes a huge difference.

Bruce Davis

We used to joke that if you go into labor we'll drag you out to the sidewalk.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

You can't drag people from understanding to action. A customer isn't actually at the last mile if you're the one dragging her to the finish line.

Don Bluth

I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes.

Don Bluth

Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.

Lykke Li

The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.

William Shakespeare

Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched; For death-like dragons here affright thee hard.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much more of my time than I like. Meanwhile I hope that the second time this expenditure of time will be much less, otherwise I would never be able to reconcile myself to it, even practical (astronomical) work must give far more satisfaction than if one brings up to B a couple more mediocre heads which otherwise would have stopped at A.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and the third lacks both preparation and ability. Such are the onera of a mathematical profession.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most of the few pupils who go a step further, and usually to keep the metaphor, remain in the process of gathering information, become only Halbwisser [one who has superficial knowledge of the subject], for the rarer talents do not want to have themselves educated by lecture courses, but train themselves. And with this thankless work the professor loses his precious time.

Agnes Smedley

Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.

Agnes Repplier

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

Agnes Repplier

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

Agnes Repplier

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

Alan K. Simpson

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

Alan K. Simpson

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

Carlos Pena, Jr.

I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.

Carlos Fuentes

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

Carlos Castaneda

For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power

Carl Guardino

Communities must plan for a variety of uses and income levels. Why do we care about housing as high-tech employers? If teachers, firefighters, peace officers, retail or restau- rant workers can't live here, then we're going to fail.

Carl Crawford

Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called dillettanti, physicians, jurists, and so forth.Lamenting the fragmentary time left to a professor has remaining after fulfilling his teaching duties.

Agnes Repplier

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

Agnes Repplier

Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.

Agnes Repplier

It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.

Wendell Perkins

We know how to value companies. And we go where the value is.

Charlize Theron

We value some lives more than others.

Brian Tracy

Nobody values your time but YOU.

Demi Lovato

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

Michael Cloherty

Yields have cheapened up, but if the Fed's going to go further, they still may not have value at that level.

Tom Kuefler

We see the value of having our dealers involved.

Roy Blunt

This report's only of value if we use it in a positive, forward-looking way, and not try to get into meaningless blaming, who could have done what when; now that it doesn't matter, ... American Morning.

Christine Callies

We think there's a lot of value in semiconductors.

Dick Durbin

We need to know as much as we can and as much as he will tell us about his values and beliefs,