Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael King

The point I've always made is that I'm writing for a general audience, rather than just for an audience of academics or fellow historians.

Renaldo Balkman

Until a final decision is made, I will concentrate on my academics and improving my basketball skills.

City High

We are proud that we have fine examples of athletic and academic excellence amongst our varsity football athletes, ... These students are examples for the entire student body at Cathedral City High School.

Mark Slonaker

We are proud of Will's efforts in the classroom and we are glad to see that he is being recognized for his accomplishments. We hope this will bode well for him as he attempts to repeat as a first team Academic All-America selection.

Tim Curley

We are pleased with the consistently high level of academic achievement by our student-athletes. Penn State strongly encourages and endorses Academic Progress Reporting and other forms of protecting the interest of the student-athlete earning a meaningful education. We recognize that currently some institutions are slightly penalized for reporting at a higher standard, but we will not compromise that standard.

Pankaj Patel

The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was granted this scholarship for achieving academic excellence, and it continues to be one of the high points in my life.

Leonor Varela

What we owe future generations is the subject of growing debate by economists, philosophers, ethicists, public policymakers, and academics of all stripes. But for me as a mother, the moral implications are very clear. We owe them clean air and fresh water, a healthy planet and a secure future.

Alan Sugar

I'm a commercial person, not an academic.

Nic Pizzolatto

I'd want to bring a flamethrower to faculty meetings. The preciousness of academics and their fragile personalities would not be tolerated in any other business in the known universe.

Johnny Davis

The other thing you get with Grant Hill is the leadership, the professionalism and the good, strong positive character. He brings that element into the locker room and into your team as well. He's just doing really well and it looks to me that this time he'll be able to sustain it the entire season.

Vikas Khanna

The Power of Food is really Spiritual. It not only brings the whole family together on the same table, but also brings the whole world together.

Bill Gates

The personal Web is a tool that brings together all the good things we're used to in a new world of communications, ... It will make us think differently about the PC and the Internet.

John Johnston

We are pleased to strengthen our relationship with Harris County Hospital District. The hospital district plays a vital role in support of healthcare in the region. Premier brings value and market leadership in supply chain cost effectiveness to support the district as it provides high quality patient care and training for health professionals.

Stu Walters

We struggle offensively. Defense is what keeps us around. Senior forward Evan Walker brings it every night defensively, he works his butt off. All our guys do.

Pasuya Yao

We are looking forward to a bottom-up dynamism that brings out what most people think of Taiwan.

Alexandre Oliveira

We're in a world where the model of the inefficiently run national oil company is virtually gone. It's a new model (for national oil companies) that brings change and with it resistance to change.

Noemie Lenoir

I can't say modeling is a hard job. And it brings the money home.

Ian Collins

We have a special player in Andy. He always brings his best.

Ed Patru

The perception that candidates who are war veterans are influencing the national party is wrong.

Cooter Failla

We started the process in October, had 12 candidates which we reduced to three, then two, and today was the day the decision was made.

Peter Wong

We're in talks with about three to four Chinese candidates for a joint venture brokerage, and we should be able to set it up sometime this year.

Nelson Warfield

When you talk to the Republican network in Washington, the consensus is that Rudy is MIA. He is making none of the traditional moves you expect a candidate to make.

Phil Price

We want to run candidates (for City Council) that will dissolve the city.

Scott Boman

We have never had a more qualified and capable champion of personal and economic freedom than the 2012 Libertarian Party candidate for President of the United States - Governor Gary Johnson.

Harry Reid

We want him to give us a candidate who is mainstream, not extreme.

Lynn King

Whether she's going to be a candidate or not is her decision.

Edith Nawakwi

When we were fighting the third term 'King Cobra' was still in MMD. He fought all potential candidates and took them out of the MMD. He got out of MMD after 90 minutes of the game.

Caitlin Kittredge

Dean flashed me a smile that promised rule-breaking and breathlessness.

John Edward

Unless I missed something, Governor Dean still has not said he was wrong. Were you wrong, Howard?

Penny Wright

So many students today use the Web as a source of information. There's going to be an interactive feel; the dean is actually talking to the students from the Web site.

Mike Blake

She toured nationally with Jimmy Dean when he was playing music instead of making sausage. She's still got it, too.

Frederick Reines

I served as Dean until 1974, when I stepped down to return to full time teaching and research.

Timothy F. Cahill

I hold the record now with Dixie Dean for being the only Everton player to score three Merseyside derby goals at Anfield. I still hope to better it. Things like that, the fans never forget.

Nancy Roman

At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.

Michael Weston

My interest in theatre started in high school, mostly because my dean forced me to do it. I was creating trouble in the hallways, so he demanded that I do something with my spare time.

Ken Block

My heart goes out to Dean and Ginger both. We have a long history with them, and we hope for the best.

Mark Oaten

We still want to try to seek consensus, however two sticking points have emerged for us.

Mike Gill

What he did great after that first inning was get the first and second guy out before giving up that hit. He's really emerged as the ace, and we're going to keep riding him.

James Rubin

The procedural hurdle that emerged yesterday has been overcome and we are proceeding apace.

Robbie Fowler

When I emerged Liverpool had a tradition of their players working hard and playing hard, back before the Nineties and through all the glory era.

David Suzuki

We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or opportunity.

Donald Lowe

The rapidity with which this has emerged over the last two to three years is probably unprecedented. When you look at the numbers, this way outstrips other so-called new infectious diseases.

Ivo Daalder

One of the remarkable things about Macedonia is that it is the only republic that has emerged out of Yugoslavia in which there is a multi-ethnic government.

Judy Preston

I don't say this lightly: Louisiana has emerged as a model for juvenile justice systems in this country.

Carrie Mae Weems

I emerged in that incredible moment in the 1980s when all kinds of social questions about subjectivity and objectivity, about who was making, who was looking.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

Chogyam Trungpa

One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

Lukas Haas

It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.

Lorraine Toussaint

I hope that whenever my daughter has a negative experience, I'm there to talk about it and remind her how we feel when it's done to her so that she doesn't do it to others.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences

Mike Cisco

We've all had experience to this point, which has been good.

Diana DeGarmo

West Side Story. It's a totally new experience for me. I've always loved theater.

African Proverb

We start as fools and become wise through experience

Dan Brooks

When you've got talent from top to bottom, everybody's playing to count. It's a tremendous experience to play without that mental cushion.

Joe Kantarik

Make sure that you tell everyone that right now we are leading in points.

Klaus Steinbach

We have proved our leading position in the world.

Lawrence Lindsey

We have rising real incomes for households, leading to rising real consumption. That looks unlikely to be disrupted,

Theodor Mommsen

Under the Julian and Claudian emperors, the Parthians seem to have been the leading power at the mouth of the Indus.

Imelda Staunton

I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.

Brian Cox

I didn't have this feeling that I should be a leading actor in the cinema. And I wouldn't want the responsibility of the opening weekend.

Conrad Hilton

My new hotels will play a leading role in promoting world peace.

Ellen Key

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

David Chang

The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.

Bill O'Reilly

Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Michael W. Smith

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions, ... I know you can't spell BCS without USC.

Vladimir Putin

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

Kofi Annan

What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.

Todd Solondz

When I was making Storytelling, I couldn't watch while the violent sex scene between the student and the professor was being shot. It was too intense.

Charles Johnson

wasn't a professor here, he was only a student here.

Joan Roscoe

It is like a documentary because she has it written day-by-day and incident-by-incident. She was a professor of English. Her writing is wonderful, wonderful writing.

Alex Hernandez

We have to look at race more often. And the professor seems to like to talk about race.

Wystan Hugh Auden

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

Roe Hye

There is no way but that Professor Hwang has been involved.

Charles Johnson

(Brown) wasn't a professor here, he was only a student here.

James Cronin

In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics.

John Barth

If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!

Charles Caleb Colton

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

Charles Stanley

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

Byron Katie

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

Bruce Tulgan

Leverage your uniqueness.

Michael Steele

We are a grassroots party. We always have been. That's been the strength of the GOP.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Confidence comes from victory, but strength comes from the struggle.

August Wilson

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

August Wilson

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

Derek Bok

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

Ben Barnes

I actually went to university.

Lars Mikkelsen

I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

Vince Young

We're not going to be scared. We're going to be pumped. Nervousness is not a part of the University of Texas.

Adolf Hitler

For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius.

Adam Ross

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

Margaret Garcia

We don't know. Mia didn't play soccer. She was a cheerleader all her life. She cheered for (the University of Colorado).

Dana Snyder

I graduated from the University of Whatever.

Ryan Lynch

I think this will show the university that we are a responsible community.