Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tawny Toering

When I was in elementary school I always looked up to high school students.

Jeffrey Clark

Lunch (at the two elementary schools) was a little longer than normal, but it will be until they get used to it. But they were hanging in there,

Todrick Hall

I was introduced to theater by a teacher that found me when I was in elementary school. She tested me for the Gifted and Talented program, started taking me to see the 'Nutcracker Ballet.' I got involved.

Josie Loren

I started acting when I was, like, five in monologue competitions at this private elementary school.

Tiffani Thiessen

It's funny - in elementary school, I went by Amber. I never liked Tiffani.

Lauren Holmes

I got into writing in college... well, in elementary school. But in college, I started writing seriously and had a professor who read my writing and gave me permission to pursue that as a real effort and time-consuming effort.

Aimee Bender

I noticed, when I taught elementary school, how true the squeaky wheel thing is, and how endearing squeaky wheels can be! Because when you're being a squeaky wheel, you're also really letting people know who you are.

Grazia Deledda

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.

Joe Blodgett

When they extended their zone, the floor shrunk. It was like playing on an elementary school floor for us.

Charles Caleb Colton

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Alan Watts

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

David Krumholtz

What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.

David Graeber

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

Carl Sagan

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

Casey Affleck

When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As an actor, you go and do your thing, and someone else down the line then does all the math and goes, "We can't include that thing where he's pretending to be dumb and needling those people, because it takes a minute and a half, and it ruins the next scene. It doesn't make sense." If you're directing, you're the one doing that.

Mark Blondin

We are going to shut down their operations, and if he would do the math he would come back to the table,

Charley Reese

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

Charles Lindbergh

Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.

Charles Caleb Colton

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

Charles Caleb Colton

No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.

Alan Watts

We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician.

Dave Barry

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

Dave Barry

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.

Dave Barry

Here's a simple experiment that you might want to try if there is absolutely nothing else going on in your life. All you need is a cork, a bar magnet, and a pail of water. Simply attach your magnet to your cork, then drop it into the water, and voilà (literally, "you have a compass")-you have a compass. How does it work? Simple. Notice that, no matter which way you turn the bucket, the cork always floats on top of the water (unless the magnet is too heavy). Using this scientific principle, early hardy mariners were able to tell at a glance whether they were sinking!

David Sarnoff

I ... began my career as a wireless amateur. After 43 years in radio, I do not mind confessing that I am still an amateur. Despite many great achievements in the science of radio and electronics, what we know today is far less than what we have still to learn.

David Sarnoff

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

Duncan Sheik

Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog

John Shanley

There is probably, if anything, a shortage of availability of styles.

Marc Basnight

We've had that shortage for a long time. It's the most important thing before us.

Roger Miller

We haven't had as many workers over there. We have a shortage of workers,

Michael Davies

There's a freight shortage at the moment. They're going to struggle getting a lot of it over there.

Craig Stevens

A lot of this has to do with speculation that there was going to be a shortage of supply,

John Eichberger

There's not a shortage of supply. It's a transitional issue.

Cary Elwes

There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

Jeanne Calment

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

Chris Crutcher

If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it.

Wendy Kopp

The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.

Avi

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

Mary Quant

As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.

Dave Craig

Saturdays we always have a lot of browsers -- teachers and tourists.

Peggy Smith

Some teachers are better with adults and some aren't.

Catherine Johnson

If you've ever been in a classroom, you know these teachers are underpaid.