Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Brian Eno

So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing become a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.

David Pogue

The rise of the citizen review site is a sobering development. No longer are you on top of the mountain, blasting your marketing message down to the masses through your megaphone. All of a sudden, the masses are conversing with one another. If your service or product isn't any good, they'll out you.

Carter G. Woodson

Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.

Alan Watts

Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

Ben Parr

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

Barbara Johnson

Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be unconscious of - others? Does the educational system exist in order to promulgate knowledge, or is its main function rather to universalize a society’s tacit agreement about what it has decided it does not and cannot know?

Barbara Jordan

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

Barbara Jordan

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Sonny Schofield

(West Iredell) did a good job frustrating us. Every time we'd do a little bit, they'd knock us out of our rhythm. We were too frustrated to play tonight.

Elliott Sadler

We're still frustrated not being in the top 10,

Channing Tatum

I'm frustrated when I see movies in which I feel like the plot is being told to me instead of shown to me.

James Mathis

Watching the news gets me frustrated on how they're handling everything down there.

Ross Randall

We are all kind of frustrated with the way we performed. This was just the first tournament, and we know we will get better from here.

Ed Belfour

It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.

Mary Ford

She didn't seem to get flustered or frustrated about the situation.

Pete Waite

She's still stepping up to the challenge. That says a lot for her. She's frustrated and wants to get her numbers back up. That says a lot for her determination.

Richard Thurin

She was frustrated (in the first half), so we put her inside, because she has to score.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody.

Bob Marley

The beauty of love. The love of beauty. The greener you are, the wiser you will be.

Betty White

Now that I'm 91, as opposed to being 90, I'm much wiser. I'm much more aware and I'm much sexier.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

Doris Lessing

As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.

David Levithan

The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y

Romesh Gunesekera

The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.

Francis Bacon

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

Torii Hunter

I'm older, and I'm better. I'm not old, but I'm older and wiser.