Famous Quotes & Sayings

Craig Brown

Like Christians, Soccerians argue that you should not judge the essence of their faith by the loopy activities of its followers. But the Beautiful Game is in fact quite the opposite. It is badly designed and riddled with flaws.

Raymond Berry

Making my first visit to the Children's Hospital as part of the game week activities was very meaningful for me as I got to meet the children who were being helped by the game.

George Toups

Making money or making a profit is not part of our agenda. The payback is through the learning and experiential activities that our students participate in.

Jillian Kinzie

Many institutions have been explicit about what students need to succeed at their institution, so students aren't just left to figure this out on their own. They provide students guideposts and very clear messages about what you need to do in terms of studying and preparing for class and the kind of activities you should be involved in.

Max Messmer

Many of the companies that are hiring are doing so to accommodate business expansion activities during 2006. Firms also are adding full-time staff and working with consulting professionals for corporate governance-related compliance and remediation initiatives.

Rochel Bryski

Many organizations focus on providing therapeutic care. We offer love, companionship, friendship and activities that are child-driven. Teens can reach children in ways that professionals, or even family members, cannot. The program also has a profound effect on the teenagers themselves by instilling within them the values of giving and gratitude.

Lisa McGee

Many private companies are planning activities that may increase their exposure to management liability risks.

Anne Wilson

Many women are familiar with the Becoming an Outdoors-Woman programs offered in Michigan, and this special weekend will focus on winter activities in one of the most beautiful places for snow-related recreation in the Midwest.

Sergei Ivanov

Many terrorists who have committed terrible crimes in the past and who operated in Chechnya are staying in Georgia now and of course they are full of new plans for terrorist operations. All that is taking place just 10 to 20 kilometers from the Russia state border, so we can't sit and watch those activities indifferently.

Stephen Daldry

Leon has an exceptional combination of talents - he is an excellent ballet dancer, fantastic gymnast and contemporary dancer, and he can sing.

Thom Cooper

Miller has had the Russian National Ballet perform several ballets over the years. They are an outstanding company of dancers.

Bill Conti

Mozart's job classification was to write music, which he did for ballets and operas. He got paid to do that, and taught on the side. He wasn't a waiter. He didn't sell mutual funds. Those are all noble professions, but if you want to be a professional composer, then you're writing dramatic music for film and television.

Sarah Shahi

My favorite workouts are the ones that don't feel like I'm working out! So, dance is a big one. Another is any kind of isolated moves, like ballet moves. Anything that works the glutes and legs - sign me up! And I like to blast the music. I have to get lost in the music. That helps.

Robert Caro

My favorite ballet is Jewels. I don't think I've seen that more than four times. And each time you see it, you see something new in it.

Toni Tennille

My years of ballet and jazz dance lessons didn't make me any more graceful - they just helped keep me from bumping into the furniture on stage.

Twiggy

Ballet pumps are the dream shoes because they are so comfortable. They look great both with jeans and summer dresses; and you can even wear the right pair with an evening gown.

Twyla Tharp

It's very difficult for me to do fund raising for my own organization if I'm working for other companies because sponsors will say, 'Well, hey, man, if she's doing a ballet for Ballet Theatre, we'll give money to Ballet Theatre.'

Raymond Rodriguez

I feel that Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley is strong and on the right path for establishing an institution that will thrive for many years to come.

Alexandra Paul

The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.

Alexandra Adornetto

How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

Rod Blagojevich

Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?

Malorie Blackman

Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

Malorie Blackman

Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.

Luke Selking

We're not doing anything to help those children excel.

Aaron Baker

like a lot of research tends to overlook children in some areas.

Margie Dorshorst

Lighted Schoolhouse Night is designed to connect the parents and the children with the school.

Bill Clinton

Let us, in short, do the work that is before us, so that when our time here is over, we will all watch the sun go down -- as we all must -- and say truly, we have prepared our children for the dawn.

Alexandra Fuller

I listen mostly to classical music.

Richard P. Feynman

There were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point to the solution of the difficulties of quantum electrodynamics.

Robert Klein

I was a class clown. My father was a class clown. My son has been a class clown, and it sort of ran in the family.

Richard Rolle

Make sure you're not being put into a class of comparables that you shouldn't be,

Thomas Fuller

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched. Try whether

Robert Lloyd

Librarians, counselors, teachers, training, students, support, systems all those are excluded from the classroom expenses.

Tom Edwards

Lots of kids liked him, all different kids in his class.

Reggie Witherspoon

Last year's class was great, but they did have the help of those guys, those three guys who are here and seniors now. And what made it really challenging for these three is . . . we had to play a lot of freshman and a lot of new guys. And last year we rarely played a freshman in a game like this. We didn't have to go that deep.

Andrew Gibson

Last year we met as an after-school club, but this year we are meeting as a class during lunch period.

Asa Hutchinson

Obviously this is an adversarial process we are engaged in.

Cory Booker

These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world.

Sarah Stevens

The projects get the kids engaged - it is reading and researching and writing and history.

Saint Francis de Sales

Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God.

Christopher Koch

I've never set a book in Europe. I've lived in Europe three times, but somehow or other it wasn't the experience that engaged me in that way.

Bernie Sanders

Senate Republicans have engaged in a record number of filibusters and other obstructionist tactics.

Patricia Schroeder

The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if they can make women fertile after menopause.

Scott Rudin

If you're going to spend two or three years of your life working on something, you've got to be making the kind of movie that discusses and influences the culture and is engaged in the world you're living in.

Barbara Kellerman

We need followers who are engaged and supportive, not just resistant.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

The hardest thing about being a full time chef is leaving my work behind when I go home at night. I'll toss and turn about a menu item or forget to order produce and wake up at 4 A.M. in a cold sweat over some artichokes.

Alexandra Paul

I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home.

Alexandra Adornetto

(Beth) "I don't care anymore." I turned my face up toward Heaven. "That's not my home anymore. You are.

Italo Calvino

I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it.

Dave Gahan

Like every New Yorker, I have a love/hate relationship with the city. There are times it's overbearing, but when I'm away even for a little while, I can't wait to get home. I am a New Yorker.

Andy Landers

Let's be honest. It will be very much like a home game.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy maidservant be faithful, strong, and homely

Joseph Gallagher

Lumber is up by about 25 percent over two weeks ago and carpeting and all the things that go into a home are up and spiked.

Greg McBride

Make sure you're in your home long enough to recoup those costs.

Tim Shea

One of the things I'm trying to do, and we all need to do, is look outside our public schools.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

Vince McMahon

Obviously, we've got some time problems with doing a Pay-Per-View outside the country.

Kip Pulliam

Now you know you can get all you need in the league. We don't have to go outside the conference.

Tom Waits

If you are making a record, you are the one saying 'action', and you are the one saying 'cut,' and you have to be sure that the most interesting thing is not going on outside the frame.

Mark Bruener

I would say he's one of the more underrated outside linebackers in a long time,

Sergei Bubka

She's a personality, not only for sports. She is very intelligent, and she's a star outside of sports.

Lin Loring

We practiced outside on (Wednesday), and it went well.

Allan Palmer

The outside (of Hangar 37) has to be restored, and we've got to repaint it and put a new roof on, and make it look like it did in 1941.

Dennis Wilson

All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.

Eddie Van Halen

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.

Ahmad Jamal

I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.

Lia Ices

I can play piano, and I write everything on piano, but I don't really feel like a piano player, necessarily.

Abel Korzeniowski

I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

Roger Williams

Only my loyal Steinway piano endures. Be it beaten or caressed, its gorgeous tone remains.

Conrad Sewell

You have those songs that are very special to you that you don't want to get ruined by production. Something like 'Start Again' shouldn't be touched. It's a classic-sounding song on a piano and violins and harmonies, and I think those songs are perfect as they are.

Caio Fonseca

I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.

Alexandra Paul

I'm trying to practice owning less stuff.

Brad Smith

Seth Burris showed the kind of shooter he is. We see that in practice a lot, and I'm awfully proud of him.

Mike Lingle

Monday, it's back to business. Time to work. They come here every single day and practice hard. We practice like we play, and it shows.

Dennis Prager

You know what I ask Jewish liberals? 'Why don't you preach what you practice?'

Democritus

One should practice much sense, not much learning.

Deborah Smith

Alongside Han Kang, there's only one other author I've chosen to translate so far - Bae Suah. Her work is radical both stylistically and politically, influenced by her own translation practice (she's translated the likes of Kafka, Pessoa, and Sadeq Hedayat into Korean). Her language is simply extraordinary.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Patrice Lauzon

I did it in the first practice, I don't have to do it again.

Carmelo Anthony

I can't even remember. To me, it's just going to be like practice. . . . I don't even look at it as trying out.

Charles Payne

I think it's insane, absolutely insane for a person to have one of the highest and most important jobs in the entire world to be saying that he has to be at his children's soccer practice.

Denis Law

Walsall have given City more than one anxious moment amongst many anxious moments

Denis Law

Who ever wins today will win the championship no matter who wins.

Eduardo Galeano

And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.

Eduardo Galeano

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

Eduardo Galeano

I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good soccer happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it.

Eduardo Galeano

Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.

Eduardo Galeano

Soccer is a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it

Eduardo Galeano

His legs have a mind of their own, his foot shoots by itself... Roberto Baggio is a big horsetail that flicks away opponents as he flows forward in an elegant wave.