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.

Rob Stillwell

We want to retain both as many employees and customers as we possibly can.

Chad Cassel

We have to have another good week of practice and continue to get better. It's a tough place to play and the winner of that series is going to end up with the No.2-seed in the conference tournament so it's big for both teams.

Paul Spiegel

We have no problem with this project because both Helge Schneider and Dani Levy are capable of approaching this work with the necessary sensitivity.

Henry Hyde

We have no precedent to follow on the involvement of the independent counsel in our proceedings. However, it seems both useful and instructive that we should hear from him since he is the person most familiar with the complicated matters the House has directed us to review.

Brian Lucas

We have no plan to phase out all sales of VCR machines at this time, ... However, many customers are opting to purchase our dual machines (which retail for about $150) that play both DVD and VHS formats.

David Dulkys

We have more time to study and play basketball. You can't do both at the same time.

Anthony Crabtree

We have so many players going both ways we don't have as much depth. Gallatin is a good team.

Paul Pierce

Whenever you get two all-stars on the court at the same time, you always have that sense of pride. We both have the utmost respect for one another and I think our competitive juices come out. What can I say? It was just a great night for both of us.

Marc Guggenheim

Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.

Agnes Macphail

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

Charles Caleb Colton

A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.

Evan Wolfson

We've seen a steady improvement in the number of people who support marriage equality for same-sex couples.

Susan B. Anthony

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

Tom Peters

My problem is not that I see all 17 sides of any issue, but I'm equally passionate about all 17 sides simultaneously.

Charlie Trotter

Ultimately, I want to prepare food that will be recognized equally in Tokyo, London, and Paris. I am after that universality, that transcendence.

Byron Katie

Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.

Byron Katie

Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.

Kim Cattrall

The older I get, the less jarring I want my exercise to be, and I find that a long walk is equally as helpful and satisfying as a three-mile jog.

Charles Caleb Colton

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

Susan B. Anthony

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

Brandi Carlile

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

Cary Elwes

Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

Jane Addams

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

Jane Addams

We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation and must remain in the sphere of intellectual comment, that a situation does not really become moral until we are confronted with the question of what shall be done in a concrete case, and are obliged to act upon our theory.

Chris Christie

These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation,

Antoine Predock

Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

Ashwin Sanghi

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.

William James

Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Taya Kyle

When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

Mike Smith

We wanted to throw a little more tonight, but old man weather wouldn't let us do that.

Ryan Rourke

The Pancake Man went well. We served over 150 people.

Sharon Stone

Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere.

Samuel Smiles

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Selman Waksman

From the moment he is born to the moment he dies, man is subject to the activities of numerous microbes.

Sarah Snook

I think if I could be a man in any time period, I would be a pirate. You know, go climbing in the rigging, sword fighting. I'd like to do that.

Stephanie Zimbalist

My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know.

Dmitry Medvedev

Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.

Jane Fonda

Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring.

Bernard Cornwell

I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.

Bo Sanchez

Getting a mentor is the shortcut to success.

Deepak Chopra

To be a mentor you need to understand what's going on in a young person's life and you just want to have an internal dialogue that says, 'How can I help? Because I really care.'

Paul Simon

Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.

Katie Kabage

We have mentors in a whole range of ages.

Brian Jones

He was my mentor at UCLA, but he's a traitor now.

Christopher Parker

I get on well with everyone, but I like Jessie Wallace and Natalie Cassidy. Natalie was my mentor when I joined, so we're really close.

Alan Sugar

Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma

Charlotte Bronte

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

Charles Edison

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

Charles de Lint

It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.

Booth Tarkington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

David D. Burns

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

David Sanborn

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Carolina Herrera

In anything you do, it's important to have your own personality there.

Carolina Herrera

A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.

Marty Casey

When I was in Minnesota, I thought we had phenomenal volunteers, but we never had this volume.

Carolyn Thomas

We've had a phenomenal response from students as well.

Dan Scanlon

I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.

Cynthia Stevenson

I loved doing 'Dead Like Me.' That role was phenomenal to me.

Chad Spalding

Having two triples in one inning is something that is unheard of in my time with the team. Tyler just had a phenomenal game.

Dirk Nowitzki

He's been playing phenomenal since the All-Star break. His turnaround (jumper) is money.

Ernie Kent

He's had two back-to-back phenomenal games, to score like that and with no turnovers. I thought he was great.

Scott Skiles

He was on. When he's on like that, he can shoot over people. His threes were dialed in. It was a phenomenal display.

Tom Crean

He's phenomenal at the end of the game.

Bill Nighy

I'm not a royal family watcher.

Roger Clemens

Now, we sit back and watch Roy do his thing.

Christo

Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

William Shakespeare

Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.

Alastair Campbell

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

Alastair Campbell

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

Ben Braun

Roy took them over the hump. He put them on his back.

Antonio Tarver

Roy Has Come Up And Said, This Is It, This Is All Or Nothing

Susie Pelzel

They were grateful. And we were treated with royal southern hospitality.