Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

Alan Paton

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

Alan Moore

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

Alan Moore

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Alan Bennett

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Bennett

My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.

Alan Ball

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Alan Alda

Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.

Alan Alda

When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.

Michael Porter

As minorities and other immigrant groups become more important to our economy, the inner city is a crucible that gives us an early look at phenomena that are going to be spreading more broadly in the economy over time.

Arthur Miller

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

Arthur Miller

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

Arthur Miller

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

Arthur Miller

Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.

Arthur Miller

The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone...

Arthur Miller

There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.

Amy Carmichael

When I can see my face in it [the liquid gold in the crucible] then it is pure.

William Hanson

Real estate, legal deals, ... It was the crucible of Fort Myers.

Kristin Turk

I didn't really think I'd be that big of a scorer until my sophomore year. And I really didn't think it would come to this extent.

Ted Purdy

I wish they wouldn't give the Nationwide Tour any points. Because it kills us when we start making (PGA Tour) points. It's like a sophomore curse.

Ted Purdy

I wish they wouldn't give the Nationwide Tour any points, ... Because it kills us when we start making (PGA Tour) points. It's like a sophomore curse.

Cheryl Parsons

Todd's just a sophomore but was actually on the stage as a 10-year-old when we did the Titanic.

Dave Holmes

That's super for a 15-year-old sophomore in her first trip down here,