Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen Harris

We have seen a huge gain in our (Illinois Standards Achievement Test) scores just because of these kids who have role models and good behaviors skills. Overall the students have helped the whole building.

Charles Spurgeon

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Alan Bleasdale

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.

Andrew Wiles

I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.

Timothy Ferriss

Workaholics typically have a lot of achievement with very little appreciation of what they have, whether it's cars or friendships or otherwise. That is a shallow victory. Then you have people with a lot of appreciation and no achievement, which is fine, but it doesn't create a lot of good in the world.

Dhirubhai Ambani

Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.

David McCullough

It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

Jim Young

We are honored to have been named America's most admired railroad. The spotlight for this accomplishment shines directly on our 50,000 employees who are truly the heroes in our company's success. In light of unprecedented business demands, we are successfully maintaining focus to stay on track.

Lynda Resnick

Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.

Aaron Swartz

The adults were completely wrong.

Kristin Matthews

The reality is, just like with adult books, a big name makes for an easier booking. Any time you're booking an author for a four-and-a-half to five-minute segment, if you're dealing with someone who's done television or comes with a track record, they are a known quantity. They know they have to have a funny or a touching story.

Sharon Stone

I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and talked. That was it. Then I started school and drove everybody crazy because they realized I had popped out as an adult. I had adult questions and wanted adult answers.

Sharon Stone

I've had the same breasts for my entire adult life

Sarah Steele

I got so much out of 'The To-Do List.' This is a joke that I say about myself sometimes, in terms of my film career: I feel like I'm always playing the kid in serious adult movies. So, for me, it was so wonderful to suddenly be working with other people my age who were doing this on film.

Aasif Mandvi

I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor.

Terry Hayes

When I was 10, my father had to go to the local library to sign a release form stating that I was allowed to borrow books from the adult section.

Edward Carey

Part of the joy of writing for kids is that you have to have a real adventure story. You can get really involved in the fantastic in a way that perhaps you can't so much in adult fiction.

Enrico Colantoni

In Toronto, I grew up taking a subway, I grew up taking a bus. I spent my formative adult years in New York City, walking the streets, taking the subway. You're connected to the larger whole. L.A. is so spread out, and you're so incubated inside those cars and it's so exhausting to deal with the traffic, without really having the human contact.

Jomo Gbomo

We have no intention of executing them ever and will only keep them for as long as our demands are not attended to.

Karen Minkel

We want everyone to attend at least one event during those 10 days. But we also recognize people have busy schedules or they may not want to come to a public event but could get online.

Leanne Winner

The eye-exam language creates a financial barrier to enter the public-school system and may bar some children from exercising their constitutional right to attend school.

Gene Orza

The fact of the matter is, the Japanese have to establish the fact that they can draw fans to games other than when Japan is playing. If we hold a final in Japan that winds up being Cuba playing the U.S., I have no good feeling about what kind of attendance that would be. That's my point.

Peter Uihlein

When I was 13, I told my dad I wanted to move to Florida to attend the IMG Academy. I wanted to be a golfer, and that's hard to do in New England where I could only practice half the year.

Keith Adams

We use the outdoor elements to attract the boys to scouting, and when they attend weekly meetings and do community service projects, they don't realize they're learning.

Thabo Mbeki

The poor of the world stand at the gates of comfortable mansions occupied by each and every king and queen or president or prime minister privileged to attend this unique meeting,

Wu Han

We know how important it is to establish the trust of the audience and really make sure that our enthusiasm is shared by those who attend the concerts.

Tori Kelly

All my life, I was even just wanted to attend the Grammys, like, just be there, so the fact that I'm nominated for Best New Artist, it feels like a dream.

Carol Leifer

I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it.

Carol Moseley Braun

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

Carol Vorderman

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?

Carol Vorderman

I'm very pleased how my children have turned out.

Carlos Mencia

If God made Adam and Eve, they had children... wait a minute... that means someone banged their sister!

Carlos Fuentes

Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency

Carlos Fuentes

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

Carlos Castaneda

The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.

Carl Andre

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

Gavin Grant

We have to have a strong ACC Tournament. We were supposed to be like a 3 seed (in the NCAA), but I am pretty sure we are going to drop down from there. I think we have to go into the ACC Tournament like we did last year, knowing we had to win to get in. We have to win games. We don't want to be an eighth or ninth seed.

Ahmad Khatami

We want our rights and nothing more, and we will resist until our last drop of blood.

Rob Savage

We've seen the labs drop from five a month to nothing. That's not to say they're not out there.

Robert Wright

When I dropped her off at the shelter, I went to see how our house was. We have nothing except for a chimney, ... Pretty much, we had nothing left.

Sean Pertwee

When I drop my son off at school, I love walking around the outskirts of Hampstead Heath.

Thomas Middleditch

After going to theater school, and then subsequently dropping out, I would say that when I first went to Chicago and learned long-form improv, that was a far better acting workshop than any acting school I've been to.

M. Night Shyamalan

Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.

Ken Warwick

Why should you take a drop in money?

Laurie Metcalf

You know, if a TV show dropped into my lap out of the blue, I would have a hard time turning it down because there just isn't the money in theater that there is on TV.

Vicki Flotta

We're just trying to provide a healthier alternative to going home and sitting on the couch.

Clare Balding

Swimmers provide much healthier role models for teenagers than the catwalk.

Evelyn Glennie

As we live longer and healthier for longer, we need to keep ourselves busy... the diary is pretty full.

Felipe Alou

He seemed to be healthier today, his legs and everything. He said he needed work and threw 52 pitches.

Gillian Cross

Refugees come from many different backgrounds and live in many different circumstances, so I wouldn't like to generalise. But I think refugees from the U.K. would probably be healthier and better fed than those from many other countries.

Chris Bentley

People are healthier and living longer, so it is unfair that they stop working simply because they turn 65,

Dennis Gartman

A rally such as we've witnessed in the past week needs a correction. The market shall be healthier in the new year because of it.

Milton Stokes

Visualizing yourself at a healthier weight can give you something tangible to reach for.

Charlie Tahan

It's healthier if you kind of just walk away from things and not really care about what happens.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

Cathy Hay

We've seen prices pushing higher since about the middle of February.

Mark Richt

We're just trying to get better down there, ... We just need to get more (touchdowns). We're not going to get a touchdown every time, but we need to get a higher percentage of them.

Charles Holliday

Ultimately, it will be higher prices for the consumer.

Dave Chappelle

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

Donald Selkin

This was a strange day, but overall it was OK. All other things being equal, we should open higher tomorrow.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Brian Ellis

We have improved every game. Now we probably need to take another step higher to play with Herkimer.

Jane Reynolds

We have higher standards for teachers. We should have higher standards for teachers.

Carole Bouquet

I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

Carol Leifer

Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.

Carol Moseley Braun

We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

Carlos Ghosn

When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.

Carlos Ghosn

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

C. S. Lewis

Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap, I don't know what will.

Shannon Miller

We have to get jobs to support ourselves. We can't sit around for six months like it's vacation.

Dan Webster

We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.

Agnes Macphail

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

Mark Patterson

Whenever someone takes a lesser role in the operations, it's not too uncommon to see this type of thing.

Marjorie Gubelmann

When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.

Donald Sterling

When you're winning, anything you say has value. When you're losing, the less you say, the better.

Katrina Kelner

We were already worried about the 2004 paper and this doesn't make us any less worried.

John Landgraf

There is a lot less overt bigotry in America.

Celso Senise

There is a lot less money for high-risk investments and no liquidity. The polls are not enough.

J. C. Watts

The popular things become more popular and the less-popular things get less popular.

Cael Sanderson

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.

Dan Savage

There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.

Kris Carr

When our purpose is external, we may never find it. If we tie our purpose or meaning to our vocation, goal or an activity, we're more than likely setting ourselves up for suffering down the line.

Erin Morgenstern

I'm working on something that's not yet novel-shaped but is something of a film-noir-flavored 'Alice in Wonderland.' It will also very likely be a single volume story and not the start of a series.

Courtney Campbell

With this type of leukemia, he most likely will need a bone-marrow transplant.

Grant Williamson

Until we get into the reporting season next month we're probably likely to see more of this thin trade.

Henry Spencer

Whether solid rockets are more or less likely to fail than liquid-fuel rockets is debatable. More serious, though, is that when they do fail, it's usually violent and spectacular.

Dick Vermeil

Least likely normally to have a problem is the kicker.

Henry Blodget

Settlement talks, if any, will likely be very complex, with multiple parties involved.

William Gerstenmaier

We're going to have to make some modifications to the tank, so that probably puts the September (launch) window into a not very likely possibility.

David Carr

We're more likely to be understanding than to be judgmental.

David Morgan

We have satisfied ourselves that appropriate safety and security measures will be in place.

Kevin Shelley

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

Moshe Sharett

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

John Proctor

There are similar security measures to those of online banking.

Raila Odinga

Kenyans should rise and stop this draconian measures by a dictatorship government.

Thomas Flynn

It'd be that much more if we didn't have some of the conservation measures we have here,

Chris Gibson

We have a lot of safety measures in place already, so I feel pretty comfortable with those,

Li Yizhong

We've met unprecedented safety pressures and all in all, all the iron-handed measures should be implemented thoroughly.

Sudhir Kumar

We have taken all measures to see that passengers are not affected. Security has also been tightened.

Barbara Kingsolver

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Benjamin Spock

I really learned it all from mothers.

Bob Hope

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

Amy Milliron

Mothers risk prosecution every time they go out in public and nurse their children.

Edgar Allan Poe

In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.

Eddy Arnold

MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Antonio Villaraigosa

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

Diane McColley

Occasionally, we'll get teenagers. Most are sewers. Some have mothers who sewed. The older people quilting now are doing it because they always wanted to quilt but never had the time.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Jeong Kim

We have a woman who tied for third place in the national spelling be as a kid, and just really wanted to come back and do this.

Vladimir Putin

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

Eric Swalwell

I think having a national system that tracks who owns guns is fine. I don't think we need to be printing it on the Internet.

Don Cooper

We did everything we can do with these guys. They're like the National Guard. They're on 24-hour call.

Josh Pastner

We're here to win a national championship. This is not a rebuilding stage. It's not a question of talent. We've got pros on our team.

Kofi Annan

What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.

Garth Jowett

Woodruff is a public personality with wide public recognition. He's a national story.

John Lee Hooker

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.

Rob Enderle

LCS and Communicator are not worth a whole lot without the back end. They have to have the back end in place, or the other parts don't move.

John Scalzi

I don't think we're at the point where most people are willing to get rid of body parts and replace them, but then again, people who shoot lasers in their eyes come out with better-than-perfect vision.

Jerome Flynn

I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need a charismatic leader and some teachings, and before you know it, you have a cult.

Bill Stoneman

One of the strongest parts to our organization is depth. It allows us to do a lot of things.

Bill Cosby

Things are old. Parts are old. I'm talking about 'us' parts. AARP-parts. Some of us were born with stronger parts than others.

Larry Rice

The parts are worth more than the whole.

Steve Daignault

We need to get the other parts on.

Jim Tracy

We need to get him back to where he is completely functional, rather than seeing parts of him here and there.

Carol Shields

Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.

Agnes Repplier

Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

Charles W. Pickering

The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care.

Charles Dickens

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

Brian Eno

Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film which is upsidedown and the bulb had gone on the projector. The quality of large-scale live music is so shocking.

Dhirubhai Ambani

We must always go for the best. Do not compromise on quality. Reject if it is not the best - not only the best in India, but globally.

Ed Comeau

We did have some quality shots and he made some saves.

Jane Austen

my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be...

Alan Chadwick

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

Carlos Mencia

If your gonna drop out of school - tough grades are not your goal - then change your name to Candy and learn to work a pole.

Carl Crawford

I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to just get checks.

C. S. Lewis

But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more probable," said the Profesor, taking off his spectacles and beginning to polish them, while he muttered to himself, "I wonder what they do teach them at these schools.

Agnes Varda

I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.

Agnes Varda

I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

Aaron Tveit

I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.

Aaron Tveit

I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!

Aasif Mandvi

There's no school that you can go to and learn how to be a "Daily Show" correspondent and how to interview people and, you know, essentially leave your soul outside the door and go in there and kind of, you know, destroy people's lives sometimes.

Aasif Mandvi

Bradford specifically there were a lot of Pakistanis there. Even today it has a very large Pakistani population.It was something that I experienced - getting chased home from the bus stop after school by English kids, boarding school, being targeted for praying to what they call Allah wallah ding dong.

Mark Twain

I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education

Milton Friedman

Not all schooling is education nor all education, schooling.

Erin Sullivan

We want to score early. And score often.

Kevin Pietersen

We set our target to score about 400 in the first innings. We're about 240 short after the first day.

Brett Hull

You have to know how to score.

Lee Kuan Yew

I would not score very highly on religious value.

Bill Watterson

The score is still Q to 12!

Ned Yost

We had battled back for him and got him in a situation where the score was tied,

Christopher Young

'Sinister' is the first score I've done in which there's no orchestra in it whatsoever. There are traditional instruments I sampled, then manipulated, so you don't even recognize the source anymore.

Alain Vigneault

Three wins by 1-0 scores -- obviously, our goaltending has been solid.

Josh Beckett

Right now it's going to come down to whoever scores more runs, because the starters aren't going to be out there as long,

Carol Kane

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

Peter Flynn

We want students to take these tests very seriously,

Andrea Ruedi

We'd especially like to see students from the hospitality program.

Robert Mason

We have a school, ... The students know they have a school.

Jane Jacobs

One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.

Jan Morris

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

Bob Inglis

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

Jim Henderson

Until now students take the tests and nothing is done with the information.

Paul Kohn

We're going to take a look at all the qualifications that all of the students bring.

Carol Leifer

The only thing I said to my parents when I was a teenager was Hang up, I got it!

Charles de Lint

Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing…sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.

Charles de Lint

I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.

Charles de Lint

Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.

Shanley Caswell

When I was a freshman, I didn't have that much time for extra-curriculars, so I didn't do any theater stuff. Actually, I didn't do it with my school. I did theater with this thing called Teen Source.

Devon Sawa

I don't think I want to play a teenager anymore.

Devon Sawa

Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.

David Krumholtz

Obviously [Can't Hardly Wait] wasn't in American Pie, which was a movie about some teenage boys.

Dave Barry

Teenagers are bored. By everything. Show a teenager an actual volcanic eruption, in progress, featuring giant billowing clouds of smoke, hot rocks raining from the sky, lava flows destroying entire villages, etc., and the teenager, eyebrows arched with sarcasm, will look at you and say, "Gee, this is swell," then return to the rental car, turn on his portable CD player, and listen to a band called Stomach Contents.