Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

M. Wolfe

We have never had prices so high and increase so quickly.

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Alan Meeder

When you say you get 130 or 140 high school kids together, people say you must be insane.

Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Cathy Hay

We've seen prices pushing higher since about the middle of February.

John Freeman

The real issue is how high does that threshold need to be.

Richard Brodhead

When it was offered, I thought it was highly appropriate.

Stephen Colletti

I was a very spastic kid who loved to see how high he could climb a tree. That's just the way I've always been.

Erik Hassle

I was 17, still in school, and my manager saw me in school, and then we hooked up, and after that, I went straight into making music.

Frank Sr

We have his PlayStation hooked up. We are trying to keep him as comfortable as possible.

Robert Richardson

She was hooked up to an ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine to keep her alive, and so they said that transplant was the only option.

Brian Regan

Hooked on Phonics worked for me

Charlotte Lamb

Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I.

Scott Rudin

I was 10 years old, taking the train by myself to see Saturday matinees, something you'd never let a kid do now. I got very hooked on it.

Jeff Pacheco

Time could be wasted when (the individuals operating the AED) are getting machine hooked up, when the individual doesn't need an AED.

Hannah Kent

I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.

Sophie Hannah

I love the house we're in, but at the same time, I'm hooked on the romance of house-hunting.

Laila Ali

I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.

Mark Twain

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.

Neil Peart

If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

Dorothy Young

She looked so beautiful. I was so moved. I intended to say a prayer, but I forgot.

Sarah Churchwell

'Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for pedagogical choice couldn't get enough of it.

Mike Jones

I don't think it is right to use the petition system when you have no intention or likelihood of prevailing. That is not what the system was intended for and to misuse it now is reckless.

Richard Menicke

I had intended to race three in the varsity race.

Courtney Pratt

If other people see it differently, they'll see it the way they want to see it, but that's not what it's intended to do.

Edgar Ramirez

I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.

Alex Rodriguez

When you think about the Space Needle, you also think about Junior rounding third.

Takashi Saito

Until my junior year in college, I was an infielder.

Bob Seger

Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.

Porter Goss

Singling out these individuals would send the wrong message to our junior officers about taking risks,

Karalyn Dehn

My junior year was the first year in like 10 or 12 years that we had a record over .500. Then my senior year was the best, but now they're back down.

Ed Jackson

I have a junior varsity team playing varsity basketball.

Jim Webb

I am a junior senator, ninety-fifth on the seniority list, and so by Senate standards, my office in the Russell Senate Office Building is less than splendid.

Larry McKissack

We put pressure on the ball. They have a lot of sophomores and juniors and so do I so I know how they'll react. They make mistakes.

Larry Swim

We're young. We only had one senior who made it to state. The rest are juniors and sophomores. We'll be back.

Carol Vorderman

Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.

Carol Vorderman

My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time.

Carlos Mencia

I grew up in the projects and I know how important it is for kids to have hope.

Carlos Ghosn

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

Carl Barks

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

C. S. Lewis

Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.

Tommy Amaker

We have no one to blame. That's what I wanted the kids to know.

Jim Allen

When your kids get on a bus, you want...

Miguel Nicolelis

We want kids to think that they can think about science. They don't need to just play soccer.

Nick Harkaway

I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.

Gary Roberts

Nearly all our blokes are locals, but a lot of them work out of town during the week,

Tony Haffer

For rain fans, it's going to be a nearly perfect day.

Geoffrey Zakarian

When I entertain, I want to have fun. But I'm also a control person. I don't go in for those everyone-in-the-kitchen cooking scenes. So if I want to be with my guests, I have to do everything - or nearly everything - in advance.

Billy Collins

I'm a nearly uncontrollable Geoff Dyer fan, who I think is one of the most comically brilliant writers today.

Hillary Clinton

Everybody feels they have been trespassed upon, and nearly everybody has trespassed on somebody else, maybe not intentionally.

Crystal Kennedy

We don't pay her nearly what is comparable.

Clive Sinclair

You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

Tequan Richmond

Going through different places, I stopped through Dubai and stayed there overnight. There I had an ultra-culture shock.

Leonid Hurwicz

My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.

Cameron Bennerman

Short-range shots, you're going to know where it's going to come off, so I just stayed with it.

John Short

She never showed up, ... We stayed until 4 in the morning. We don't know why she didn't come.

Joan Armatrading

So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.

Linda Grant

When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because the first impressions were so powerful they have stayed with me.

Ian Scott

I was surprised it stayed right there so I could go get it.

Charles Stiles

I have intentionally stayed out of that discussion.

Mitch Kapor

If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself.

Carlos Pena, Jr.

I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.

Carlos Castaneda

For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power

Carl Guardino

Communities must plan for a variety of uses and income levels. Why do we care about housing as high-tech employers? If teachers, firefighters, peace officers, retail or restau- rant workers can't live here, then we're going to fail.

Carl Crawford

Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes.

Agnes Repplier

Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.

Agnes Repplier

It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.

Aaron Tveit

I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.

Aaron Sorkin

Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. . . . Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense." --Sam Seaborne, West Wing

Alan Sugar

If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.

Hal Lindsey

Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.

Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.

Gordon Strachan

Twenty years. They've crept up on us. They've gone, just like that.

Bob Dylan

Twenty years of schoolin' / And they put you on the day shift.

Jane D. Hull

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.