Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Barker

My Dad always liked Syracuse and we knew here that Colin (Barber) was leaving, ... We figured that this would be the best place for me. Plus, the academics are great, too.

Mark Lunsford

Obviously the academics are outstanding at Duke, and Doug is a smart young man,

Johann Jones

Growing up, it was always academics first, then basketball. If you would ask me to choose between the two, then it would be academics because I know anything can happen tomorrow. I can get injured or something and then basketball is over but I'll always have my mind.

Tom Moore

I have a high regard for the academics at Delaware, and the history of athletic success speaks for itself.

Tanya Chaplin

She's living the life that's kind of honoring her mother right now and doing that in every area that she can, from academics to gymnastics to her relationships. It's also helped this team understand and value their relationships that they have between each other and their own family members.

David Giles

I have heard of many occasions when academics rely on children to explain why a game works and then rely on their own area of specialisation to analyse the game.

Jared Mitchell

I have chosen to continue my athletic career in football and baseball as well as my academics at Louisiana State University.

George M. Whitesides

We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it's fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you're not responsible for outcomes.

Tucker Max

You know, even big-time academics kind of have groupies. Anyone with any sort of fame. So, like, in your micro-world, or in your niche, you're kind of like a celebrity.

Kristin Lehman

For 'Motive,' it wasn't a question of making it look un-Canadian, but instead, we wanted it to be the product of a bunch of really skilled people making something. And that's what you have.

Kristin Cast

Oh my God, I used to get heartburn and all sorts of indigestion and stuff because I didn't feel well. And you know, I sit a lot because I write, and I gained a whole bunch of weight. My vanity just got to me, and I was like, 'I've got to do something!'

Mark Johnson

We're not deep enough where we can have our starters standing on the sideline. We had a bunch on the sideline late in the ballgame. That was the big momentum changer. ... Bryce played well.

Mark Johnson

We're not deep enough where we can have our starters standing on the sideline, ... We had a bunch on the sideline late in the ballgame. That was the big momentum changer. ... Bryce played well.

Dave Chappelle

like I'm hanging out with a bunch of people.

Mark Richt

Last year, they played a bunch of close games. Learning how to win doesn't happen overnight. Coach (Bobby) Johnson has done a good job of teaching that in a real methodical way.

Jim Sparks

Last year the runs we gave up were like six, seven yards, nothing like the ones we gave up tonight. Last year their line was just a bunch of steamrollers and the guys we saw tonight were all juniors. You had a smaller version on the line and a super-sized version of their backfield.

Barrett Kaiser

Max worked way too hard to secure these dollars to let a bunch of bureaucrats get in the way.

Michael Leunig

Meat workers may have been looked down upon socially, but at least they were well-paid and were a fit and lively bunch as a result of hard, honest physical work.

Robert Rainy

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.

Koko Taylor

I was so glad to get out of the cotton patch and stop pickin' cotton, I wouldn't of cared who come by and said, 'I'll take you to Chicago.'

Albert Schweitzer

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Steven Brill

We're not dealing with kidnappers here. When you see the way they continued to raise him and take care of him, you're dealing with parents that love their kid and would do anything they could to keep him.

George H. W. Bush

Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for New Orleans and Galveston. I urge the citizens to listen carefully to the instructions provided by state and the local authorities. And follow them,

Joan Lingard

Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.

Brenda Valdes

Life is ... you work, you support yourself, take care of yourself, but you also have to take care of your community.

Jason Varitek

Like I always say, we handle things in here. In no way, shape or form are we going to play a media game with our teammates. I think that people look to pick on things on Manny because he's Manny Ramirez. We'll take care of things and we take care of things in here.

Lou Lamoriello

Let's be careful how far we go with that.

Anne Johnson

Men need nutrition, counseling and health classes just as much as women,

Michael Moss

One reason that we eat processed foods is the decline of home economics. Restarting home economics classes is one of the key things we could do to get this issue moving.

Merce Cunningham

My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.

Cynthia Voigt

My favorite season was when I wrote every morning for three or four hours, then I would go and teach my classes at school, come home to my family and hang out with them, have dinner, and then, after everyone was tucked in, I would prepare for my classes the next day.

O. J. Simpson

Now that these students have returned, some credits do not balance, ... Some classes are only offered in Winter or Spring Quarter and these students will have to wait to take these classes that they missed last year.

Charles Pierce

Neither of us has much of a science education, or even math, ... They all went together, at first taking the same classes as their mother. They did better than she did.

Michael Beals

We had been at full capacity. Now we could unfreeze the system and move classes around to better meet demands on the campuses.

Michael Beals

We had been at full capacity, ... Now we could unfreeze the system and move classes around to better meet demands on the campuses.

Douglas Fairbanks

People are divided into two classes - those who profit by experience and those who do not. The unfortunate part of it all is that the latter class is by far the larger of the two.

Rick Perlstein

While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price.

Marc Benioff

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.

Louisa May Alcott

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!

David Lehman

Like everything at the end of the session, there's going to be a scramble. The Speaker has said community college is on life support, but it's not dead.

Troy Taylor

(Mack is) about 6-foot, her work ethic is good and she can shoot the jump shot. A couple colleges were at the Centennial game (Mifflin won 65-55 on Dec. 16) and they really like her because she can run the floor really well.

Carlos Ramirez

Los Alamos in conjunction with the New Mexico Association of Community Colleges recently finished listing legislative priorities for the upcoming session,

Maurice Ager

Last year, we had a lot of ups and downs. But as a team we rallied together. It just put us in a position where we see what we can do. I don't want to leave college without a ring.

J. Horton

Last year, we ended up getting some matches out of it (hosting the Small College Championships) some teams wanted to come back down here and play.

David Pollack

learned more in these first couple weeks, and since I've started here, than I learned all through college.

Robert Fisk

One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.

Albert Schweitzer

The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.

Richard Hills

Lee (Robinson) has gone back to the United and done very well,

J. J. Johnson

Several firms that have gone public recently and others that have been public for some time have seen their shares rise considerably.

Yuri Thamrin

Second-hand information is not enough and this has gone on for too long.

Thomas Blanton

Secrecy, the secrecy system and the pseudo secrecy system in the United States have gone out of control.

Edward Luck

So I've gone in and out of the U.N., working on counter-terrorism, on U.N. reform, on peacekeeping, peace and security issues, many things through the years but always with a strong interest in humanitarian issues, and human rights issues as well.

Gary Waters

McNamara would've helped them, but I don't know how much he would've helped them. I can't say because he was gone that we were better, because they played like a team.

Kim Clijsters

My injury's not gone. The pain is gone because of the tablets I'm taking.

Karalyn Dehn

My junior year was the first year in like 10 or 12 years that we had a record over .500. Then my senior year was the best, but now they're back down.

Ed Jackson

I have a junior varsity team playing varsity basketball.

Porter Goss

Singling out these individuals would send the wrong message to our junior officers about taking risks,

Alan Johnston

Tim's team played with a lot of intensity. We should have had that kind of intensity. I have 13 juniors who don't know how to see forward, yet.

Tom Brokaw

Here is a secret that no one has told you: Real life is junior high.

Clint Eastwood

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.

Phil Klay

I ended up going to Dartmouth, and I did Marine Officer Candidate School during my junior summer.

Alex Rodriguez

When you think about the Space Needle, you also think about Junior rounding third.

Chad Logan

We really have a lot of experience. Our juniors saw considerable time last year and look to start as seniors.

John Bunyan

So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

Mike Eggl

Obviously, we feel pretty passionate about this issue.

Martin Parr

My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down.

Charles Spurgeon

Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.

Dennis Prager

The more passions you have the happier you'll be

Democritus

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

Denis Diderot

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

Edgar Allan Poe

The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.

Edgar Allan Poe

And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him, who shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a plunge. To indulge for a moment, in any attempt at thought, is to be inevitably lost; for reflection but urges us to forbear, and therefore it is, I say, that we cannot. If there be no friendly arm to check us, or if we fail in a sudden effort to prostrate ourselves backward from the abyss, we plunge, and are destroyed.

John Bunyan

So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

Martin Parr

My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down.

Tim Zerull

I can't say enough about how well we passed and how well we served and how well we played defense.

Chris Clarke

I was saying, 'You've got to get up; you've got to get up,' ... He said, 'I'm getting up.' I went to get help, and when I got back, he'd passed away.

John M. Smith

I got very hammered, threw up and passed out. After that I drank, but not very often.

Tim Powers

I have more questions than answers. I wonder, could a lot of these teachers have passed this test in the '70s?

George Pataki

We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.

T.I.

My father passed away in 2002, but yes, we were pretty close. I loved him a lot.

Jim Calhoun

We did what we could with the schedule put before us. We passed every test.

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.

Meghan Steiner

I did everything I could for it. I was working out the whole time. I took calcium pills.

David Anders

When we said go, they went. They took our words seriously.

Frank Haith

When they took the lead, we showed some toughness.

John Enos

I got right in my truck and took off to Dayton.

Gary Gambardella

She was a fortune-teller, and she took this woman for a fortune.

Dhani Jones

My parents took me around the world when I was young, so I caught the bug. Every person is different when he travels, and every travellers' story is uniquely his own.

Solange Knowles

I felt like when I took my weave out, I wasn't pretty, I wasn't noticeable.

Ian Mckellen

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.