Famous Quotes & Sayings

Teresa Heinz

I was always impressed by Betty Ford and what she went through and how full of integrity she was, and how brave. I think Mrs. Reagan was a role model of my mother's generation, intelligent, very supportive of her husband. I am very different from my mom, but I admired her devotion.

Sean Rushton

Janice Brown ... is admired like no other among conservatives, and that counts, I'd love to have that fight.

John Ortberg

Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.

Christina Milian

The actors I would like to work with are Julia Roberts, just because I've admired her work for a long time, well Brad Pitt. I think you know my reasons.

William Rehnquist

The American judicial system is admired throughout the world.

Vin Diesel

That was a dream. As an actor, you find yourself studying the performances of actors you've admired in the past, and so often those performances were in Sidney Lumet movies. When I directed my first short film, 'Multi-Facial,' I bought a book by Sidney Lumet called 'Making Movies,' and that book actually gave me the confidence to direct. So this was coming full circle, 10 years later, into the master's program, with the master.

Martin Bain

Martin is unbelievably driven, ... Murray always openly admired him, but Martin himself would sometimes put in hours that other people would find frightening. When you consider these two facts, it's no surprise that he has got to where he is at the club.

Sania Mirza

Martina is one player I admired and was really disappointed that she wasn't around when I started playing the tour. I am just excited to play with her and I think I played a great match and made her work hard for her points.

Pankaj Mishra

Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.

Daddy Yankee

Reggaeton means the same thing to Latino youth as hip-hop does to African-American kids. We didn't have artists to look up to before. But the young kids now, they're looking at Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderon and Ivy Queen like kids in the American 'hood look up to 50 Cent or 2Pac. I'm representing for my culture and my people. It's their music.

Jean-Marie Lehn

Receptor chemistry, the chemistry of artificial receptor molecules, may be considered a generalized coordination chemistry, not limited to transition metal ions but extending to all types of substrates: cationic, anionic or neutral species of organic, inorganic or biological nature.

Miriam Nelson

Our research shows that a program of strength training not only improves bone density but reduces falls, improves arthritis symptoms, and increases flexibility and strength.

John Cusack

Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have helped light the fire. They are very liberal, artistic people, but they didn't force us into acting. They let us find our own ways.

Henry Rollins

Our record is all finished, ... It's mastered, and now I have to come up with artwork and a kiss-ass video for MTV. They never play our stuff anyway, so it's just a gesture. We'll pantomime through some ridiculous situation on film and the record will come out at the end of the year. It's going to be a release that no one will hear.

Keith Davis

Parks was a man of perhaps unparalleled artistic talent.

Stephen Phillips

Part of the problem with the previous art festivals was the weather,

Bob Taft

Passion Works is a studio where persons with mental retardation or other disabilities can create beautiful works of art and products and provide those to the community,

Kent Thompson

part vision, part coaching, part recruitment and fundraising and part conversation and collaboration. My job is to articulate the vision of the theater and to make it happen, and I know the only way I can do that is to have a lot of people joining into that vision. I view it as a serve-and-lead kind of job. The hard part is figuring out when you need to do which.

Chris Lehane

Our policy proposals, when they're analyzed, are responsible, reflect experience and show some real thought.

Justin Phinisee

Our past and history has given us experience so we know how to respond.

Henry Spencer

Past experience, on the shuttle and the Titan rockets, suggests that large multi-segment solid rockets have a probability of failure of 0.5 to 1 per cent.

Jim Anderson

Particularly with low socio-economic status, my experience is, such students never realized that testing was important,

Joel Edgerton

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

Ilian Evtimov

Our maturity and experience showed. We finished this game like you're supposed to.... We made plays.

Carl Howe

People have experience with the real world. For most people, the Internet feels insubstantial.

Mark French

People leave this whole experience really knowing more about their community.

Mario Hernandez

People here were frightened. By experience, they know that if they see the water receding, it's just concentrating, to come rushing back in furiously.

James Courtney

Rehberg suggested this man because he knew him.

Daylon McCutcheon

Part of it was we knew Ty pretty well, but part of it was it was we had an exceptional game," ()

George H. W. Bush

Paul's soft-spoken, hard-working ways will be sorely missed by all of us who knew him and loved him.

Cody Provenzano

Our linemen knew they had to step it up after last year. Our quarterback got hit, like, 12 times. They stepped it up big-time.

Michael Shaw

People knew this was going to be the shoes' last week at the museum, ... That's why I feel somebody might have been planning this a long time.

Judith Bondus

People knew there were going to be two seats up for election.

George Mason

That'd be cool. Some of our threes (Thursday) night didn't have a chance. I knew they weren't going in as they left the hand.

Nick Vandewalle

Robin was knocking shots away left and right. I knew she had a lot. I didn't it was that many until I looked at the stats afterward. It was impressive.

Sorin Cerin

Man's life is knowledge and that's all. If the Man didn't knew life he didn't exist.

Omar Sharif

Picasso: Masterworks From the Museum of Modern Art.

B. R. Ambedkar

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

Arnold Schoenberg

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Jehan Perera

It is a referendum on nationalism versus internationalism, on modernity versus tradition.

Dean Miller

I don't think people want chains. People want modern conveniences, but they don't want chains.

Albion W. Small

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Jory Hancock

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Fred Greenstein

When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.

Brian Young

Some of the (people) actually saw a three-foot shark swimming down I-10,

Bede Griffiths

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Anand Gopal

I was living near the Twin Towers on 9/11, so I saw the attacks, and I had friends who were killed in the attacks.

Shawn Chacon

Just getting ahead. I watched Smally do it all day yesterday, and I saw how that turned out for him.

Bill Burr

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

E. B. White

That was a train wreck that we saw in New Orleans,

John Nicks

That was the first time I ever saw her distraught.

John Whiting

That's the sort of simplistic thing we'd like to avoid, ... That was a train wreck that we saw in New Orleans.

Christyne Nicholas

I think people, for the first time, saw New Yorkers unfiltered.

Julie Myers

I will seek to work with those who are knowledgeable in this area, who know more than I do.

Cynthia Kenyon

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

Abu Bakr

If anybody seeks your advice, offer right and sincere advice.

Mahatma Gandhi

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

Robert Hamilton

We are seeking any new work we can get.

Charles Miller

My understanding is we were seeking what keywords are put in and URLs. Nothing personal.

Danys Baez

We didn't seek this out, but after an in-depth exploration, it made sense for us.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We are commanded to seek out those who are lost. We are to be our brother's keeper.

Atharva Veda

Servant Nanak seeks Your Support; he has come to Your Sanctuary.

B. F. Skinner

Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.

B. F. Skinner

The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.

B. F. Skinner

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

B. F. Skinner

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

Billy Corgan

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

Bill Engvall

I've come up with the three things you never want to hear at your kid's parent/teacher conference. Number one: 'You're only responsible for the first $10,000 worth of damage.' Number two: 'We have medication for this.' And number three: 'It was more than an ounce and he was less than a hundred yards from the school.'

Bill Cosby

When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.

Bill Cosby

I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.

Bharati Mukherjee

What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

C. S. Lewis

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C. S. Lewis

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Bertrand Russell

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

David Spears

That's a true dilemma. But we don't know any way to get around it. The work has got to be done.

Eric Wise

I was always true to her. I am not a predator.

Aimee Teegarden

I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.

Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Blake Mycoskie

The more you give, the more you live.

Bette Davis

I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.

Bill Vaughan

Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

Bertrand Russell

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

Bertrand Russell

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.

Bertrand Russell

I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.

Bertrand Russell

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.

Mark Adelson

From now on, only the plainest vanilla versions will be permissible, nothing elaborate.

Blaise Pascal

Vanity is but the surface.

Blaise Pascal

We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Kevin Hassett

I think it's the only way it works politically,

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Frank Thomas

If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Ira Glass

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.