Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carolyn McLaughlin

We want to take these meetings across the city to get as many people involved as possible. We are trying to build a coalition behind this.

Robert Kirby

We want to stimulate demand for physics and encourage young people across the UK to study it whatever their financial or social background.

Luke Bracey

At the end of the day, it is just a movie, and we should remember that we're doing it for the audience, and we should have fun doing it. If we have fun doing it, it will come across on the screen.

Louis Stokes

Well we had nine top forensic pathologists from across the country, who operated as a panel, who looked at all the ballistic evidence and they came out saying that those bullets did exactly what the Warren Commission said they did.

Michael Specter

Many climate scientists say their biggest fear is that warming could melt the Arctic permafrost - which stretches for thousands of miles across Alaska, Canada, and Siberia.

David Heim

The performance ranged from excellent or nearly so to very good. There was a very high level of performance across the board.

Jackie Vaughn

The percentage is reduced each year, until after five years the fire department is able to continue on with paid staffing with it's own funding. At a time when volunteer fire departments across the nation are struggling to obtain new volunteers, this cut really hurts. It means fire departments will have to look to the public for even more support.

Tim Ruskell

The people who step across the line and get the job done deserve the credit. They enjoy playing with each other, they have each other's back, and they've really bought into the team concept. You drive down a road and see a road crew, two of them are working and the rest are leaning on their shovels? I lean on a shovel.

Joe Horn

We appreciate it. We welcome it. We love the people across the nation who have poured out their hearts to us. We love you with all of our hearts and we're going to do what we have to do to win football games. We love everybody in the world who has supported this effort and those who sat and watched TV and wanted to support us financially but couldn't.

Paula Carney

We started three years ago with 150 people attending the event. This year we had more than 400.

Luis Walter Alvarez

Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.

Adoniram Judson

The places chosen for the administration of the ordinance, and the circumstances attending those instances, in which the act of baptizing is particularly described in the New Testament, plainly indicate immersion.

Robert Burton

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

Twyla Tharp

Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special events or rehearsals.

Ann Hood

For reasons I can't remember, my family eventually stopped attending church, and I started questioning the Catholic Church's beliefs. I dabbled a little, but nothing stuck.

Nina Easton

Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential.

W. G. Sebald

Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to - a notion so universal, it's enscribed in all religions. If you didn't, they might exact revenge upon the living.

Yolanda Adams

Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart.

Charles Dickens

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

Charles Caleb Colton

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.

Charles Dickens

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Charles Dickens

If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.

Charles Dickens

Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.

Michael Keaton

My first day in grade school, I was plain scared. I left the comfort of my run-down house, which I loved, and went to school where it was cold, it smelled, the lighting was bad.

Mike Davis

We're moving more than a grade level a year. That's way more impressive than anything we've done so far.

Kreayshawn

Sometimes I'll dress like a boy, sometimes I'll dress like a Japanese crazy teenybopper. I have clothes from the 7th grade that I've kept and still wear.

Gov. Carcieri

We are going to know what is going on with learning in grades 3 to 8, and we are testing for that, so the light will shine.

Melissa McCarthy

Since grade school, I focused on women's clothing.

Paul Kasriel

We really don't want to give Greenspan a grade yet. You want to wait a year or two to see whether the seeds turn to weeds.

David Nicholls

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

Ferid Murad

Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class.

Nikki Reed

My mom and I would make bracelets and necklaces, and I would sell it in the first, second, and third grades because that was my lunch money.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Dave Chappelle

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.

Shinzo Abe

The other side has not responded to any of our requests regarding the abduction issue, so it is highly regrettable.

James Browning

The potential profits are so high there's a win-at-any-cost mentality.

Mark Thompson

The perception is that it's too high end, too futuristic, but I think we will see prices and use models to support it.

John Connaughton

The people who pay the highest income tax are also the most mobile. They simply leave North Carolina.

John Remington

We are always trying to look for unique ideas, and we wanted something new for New York. We thought that hey, it's an island, let's do something on the water...New Yorkers have pretty high expectations.

Marty Natalegawa

We've always been on a high state of alert. The perpetrators of the previous bombings are still very much at large and the risk is still very much with us,

Charles Dickens

If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to which it used to be hidden in mine - which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason to suspect myself of having been a monstrosity - it is the key to many reservations.

Charles Spurgeon

A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.

Charles Spurgeon

Idleness is the key of beggary.

Alan Greenspan

Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of an everchanging economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank needs to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path. The decision makers then need to reach judgment about the probabilities, costs and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.

Alan Greenspan

The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions .... Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.

Alain Robert

When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

Al Kaline

I was very, very shocked about Cooperstown. I thought my chances were fairly good, but I tried to stay low key about it, not too high and not too low. That was the way I played, too.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient.

Chris Colfer

I just downloaded the new Alvin and the Chipmunks album! They're the only guys that make music in my key!

Dave Roberts

You don't always want to wait until the ninth inning to win games, but we haven't had that. That propels us, to know we can win at any time. You don't want to go into the postseason scuffling.

Derek Jeter

I've been playing baseball since I was 5 or 6 years old. I've been on a schedule, pretty much, since I was in eighth, ninth grade. I look forward to not doing that.

Ed Nottle

We've got to get it going before the ninth inning.

Hunter S. Thompson

We are young, ... We start a lot of juniors, sophomores and ninth graders. We have 10 seniors on the team.

Larry Goldfarb

We are completely self-funded. This is our ninth year of concerts.

Spike Lee

People could not believe, especially the residents of the Ninth Ward, that there wasn't hanky-panky in the flooding.

Derek Jeter

The worst thing is, we were in a position to win. We were right in the position we wanted to be, in the ninth inning with Mo.

Pat Flannery

That?s pretty impressive, nationally, that they think of us as a ninth seed. I think it?s recognition of who we played and who we beat.

Priest Holmes

This is my ninth year, and I feel real good.

Brad Lancaster

We're 20 to 40 students away from being a Recognized district. It was close, but we're not taking any chances.

Ted Nelson

The only ones those certifications are recognized by are the associations who give them.

David Boreanaz

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

John Eberle

The propeller sputtered and that was it ... we recognized it was an emergency.

A.J. Pierzynski

Yeah, I got recognized more at home. That's for sure.

Allison Tolman

I haven't been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable.

Bonnie McKee

I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.

Rick Comley

We wanted to get back to being a nationally recognized program. I think we're there.

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.

Edward Hirsch

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

Elizabeth Olsen

I've always loved being a student.

Carol Kane

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

Bob Inglis

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

Paul Kohn

We're going to take a look at all the qualifications that all of the students bring.

Kelly Shackelford

What they're trying to do is treat them like they're not a student club. They are a student club.

Steve Gray

Three years ago, I had 18 students, ... and this year I have 44.

Tom Callos

When the student is ready, the teacher appears. Likewise, when the teacher is ready, the students appear.

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Caleb Colton

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

Charles Caleb Colton

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

Charles Caleb Colton

To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Casey Neistat

Then HBO was the pie in the sky. HBO is the absolute ultimate.

Bill Owens

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

Lloyd Cutler

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

Brad Chalk

Getting to Omaha, that's the ultimate goal. If I batted .100 and we made it there, then I would feel like I succeeded.

Charles Kendall Adams

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

Helen Thomas

I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

Donald Trump

I say God is the ultimate.

Donald Trump

Brainpower is the ultimate leverage

Bhagat Singh

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.