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.

Peter Stoessel

We were already looking at Southern California when he approached us.

Scott Clark

The fact that natural gas prices are competitive in California has to do with the lasting effects of the California energy crisis, which has continued to keep electrical prices high.

Bobby Julich

The professionalism (of the race) is what keeps the European teams coming back and what makes the American riders so focused. The Coors Classic and Tour Du Pont were huge things that got George and I into cycling and now it's up to us to inspire the next generation (of cyclist). I think the Tour of California can help up with that.

Tom Bissell

I'd been in Sacramento a day and already noticed the pervasiveness of its homeless problem. The city seemed like California without the masks or pretense: a place where dreams were occasionally made but mostly torn apart.

Thomas Starr King

I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.

Dave Foley

The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants.

David Pogue

Scientists in California have discovered a chemical in the brain that causes use of Windows in otherwise normal human beings. It's called alcohol.

Gary Sinise

The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.

Camille Guaty

My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.

Darryl Sutter

When you're young like that, you just have to stick to those things that you do really, really well. With a player like that, it's never a mistake or a flaw in his game, it's just about how he harnesses it and challenges it.

Alan Shepard

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.

Alan Kay

If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

Lynda DeLaforgue

There are a lot of challenges for people who are low income. There are significant resources being put in by drug companies, and millions of consumers are benefiting from these programs. This is just a good excuse for them to get out of those programs.

Carly Fiorina

The people of HP can execute, and they've proven it. Think about the challenges these employees have had to face up to and overcome: a very difficult economic environment worldwide; an industry undergoing a rapid transformation; intense competition; and a distracting proxy contest that none of us could have predicted, but one that we are determined to win.

Richard Paul Evans

I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.

Tracy Pollan

Everybody has their challenges; I couldn't say that we have more challenges than other people, they're just different.

Brian Weiss

Sometimes the most evolved souls take the most challenging paths

Brande Roderick

The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can't stick our heads in the sand and say 'it can't happen to me.'

Gordon Brown

We have said very clearly that not only is the rebate justified, but if in the national interest it was necessary to do so we would have to use our veto.

Charles Prince

We have said pretty clearly that our focus is on extending the franchise transactions.

Red Berenson

We have to have a good game tomorrow. When the smoke clears on Sunday, we'll see what our situation is. But if we don't, I don't know that we deserve any.

Marty Heires

We have no intention of doing what they seem to be trying to prevent. Right in our application we state very clearly we have no intention of opening branches.

John Emery

We have never looked at exiting that asset. I want to be perfectly clear on that.

Ed Wade

We want our fans to be excited. We're giving them a lot of reason to be excited. But we clearly understand that you play the game on the field. That's what it's all about.

John Terry

We were a lot of points in front and we've dropped a few - we lost to Fulham and a couple of results didn't go our way. But we are still fighting. We are seven points clear and any team would take that at the end of the season.

John Devine

We have product and distribution plans to fit each of those brands, ... I know there's a lot of speculation about what we're doing and that's fine. But I want to be clear we do not have plans to drop any brands.

Gareth Davis

We've spoken to Steve at length and made it very clear that we would like him to stay. It's an ongoing process, and my expectation is that it will be a few days before we know one way or the other.

Peter Rice

Whenever we can, we like to improve the situation.

Travis Bradberry

Taking time to contemplate what you're grateful for isn't merely the 'right' thing to do. It also improves your mood because it reduces the stress hormone cortisol by 23%.

Cary Grant

I improve on misquotation.

Sue Miller

This will not only replace what you have now, it will drastically improve what you have now.

Clayton Wilcox

We did not make the kind of leapfrog improvement we need to. While I wasn't ecstatic, I'm pleased with the trend lines.

Jared Diamond

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

Michael Dell

We are seeing a substantial improvement in the availability of flat-panel screens (from) two months ago,

Kevin Toney

The reason for his improvement was the work he put in in the weight room during the off-season.

Mark Lee

We still want to try and improve our playoff standing. We've got two next week so we'll have to come ready to play and see if we can't get two wins.

Vickie Warehime

We have no indication that anybody's been harmed.

Eugene Fama

People don't walk away from their homes unless they can't make the payments. That's an indication that we are in a recession.

Bob Burke

What they're saying is there's no indication at all of mechanical failure.

Mary Stillinger

Mr. Guardia had an invitation to the White House. He went to the (presidential) inauguration. Every indication was that he was a reputable, upstanding person.

Bill Bixby

So, I work on instinct and start probing with remarks and I have an indication of what the person is like before they even open their mouth.

Bryan Whitman

I don't have anything to suggest that is accurate. I have no indication that there are any unaccounted for personnel.

Wade Pogany

I don't have any indication that's happening. It is possible, sure. Any school could do that.

Jerry Klein

I don't have any indication at all, really, one way or the other.

Shyam Saran

I do not see any indication yet that there could be joint operations.

Lindsey Rice

She was just being released into a world of paranoia, and it wasn't good.

David Wright

I had released all that was worst in me. It was a shame I had to kill them.

Alan Rusbridger

We're overjoyed that Rory has been released safe and sound.

Rob Schneider

We're not getting released in Japan; I know that for a fact,

Jack Sheehan

He was immediately released to his place of employment.

Christian Gross

There is a JavaScript that has a lot of these things solved. Nobody's released it.

Leslie Sloane

Yes, she has been released and she is doing better.

Sydney Wayser

I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together.

Jim Calhoun

I thought at first when he released it, it was going to be good, but it wasn't.

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,

Ed Cange

One night, somebody scores a lot, then another (night), it's someone else. That's our bedrock. It's a team concept.

Phil Mason

We would have been up by two scores had we scored on that drive.

Jerry Kelly

Just play well and the scores will come. I showed that today.

Chris Nelson

That's the way we've been all year. Every time someone scores on us, we score right back.

Sue Olds

Our API scores give us the idea that we're on the right path.

Amy Williams

It's not right when we have teachers that are fudging on the test scores because they want to look good.

Ichiro Suzuki

In a tournament like this one, it's important to be the team that scores first.

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.

Kenyon Martin

I know the game well. I'm a student of basketball; I know what it takes to win.

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.

Marc Benioff

I think the most surprising thing about giving is it takes a while to find out what you're really interested in and what you really want to do.

Michael Hein

I was shocked. I won't say it was crushing, but it was surprising and disappointing.

Carol Windley

I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.

Steve Bisley

As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.

Rodney Brooks

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

Mark Zuckerberg

The thing that's been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is - I think then, and I think now - that if we didn't do this, someone else would have done it.

Astro Teller

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.

Philip Schiller

We want things to be beautiful, surprising to see, but they also have to be functional. One without the other doesn't make any sense.

A. S. Byatt

Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

Carl Bernstein

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Aasif Mandvi

Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.

Brent Scowcroft

Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem.

Diane Wakoski

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

David Graeber

States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.

Byron Katie

Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.

Olympia Snowe

We are here today because we want to be responsible stewards of the surplus,

Jared Diamond

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

Alan Perlis

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.