Famous Quotes & Sayings

Every high school player not being recruited by a major Division I program in the Pac-10, this gives them a reason to look at Davis. It's a great academic institution. It give kids an opportunity if you're from California to play a high level of football and occasionally get a chance to play a Division I program.

Based on a thorough analysis of the five-year academic results at all 2,850 schools appearing in the Institute's Report Card on Ontario's Elementary Schools, we rated the schools on three categories of academic performance. The awards will be presented to the top school team in each category. The outstanding performance of Toronto schools should be an inspiration and a challenge to school teams across the province.

Some people might say that an academic kid like that would be soft, but he's not soft. He is hard as a player. He covers kids that are bigger than him and weigh more than him, but he never gets kids that work harder than him.

Derek Bok

Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.

Andrew Greeley

One could say at a dinner party that most Americans are faithful to their spouses, and a loud mouth, semi-inebriated jerk can respond that the conclusion cannot be true because look at all the academics who sleep around at professional meetings.

One day, I was reading the New York Times and there was a front page story about Simmons and the Plan for Academic Enrichment, ... So that just got me to thinking, so I picked up the phone and asked if anybody was interested down there.

Action, not words, would be the measure of our success or failure. Will there be lengthy academic or legal debates on what constitutes genocide or crimes against humanity while people die?

Dr. Anvari is a seasoned professional dean who emerged as our leading candidate from a national search, ... He comes to the university with many years of experience as a professor and dean. He just brings a lot of strength to our academic and administrative bench.

Nicola Sturgeon

The teachers who taught me at Dreghorn Primary and Greenwood Academy were fantastic.

The Super Bowl is one of those television events like the Academy Awards that really dominates and monopolizes the audience.

The thing that excited me about Georgetown is that I know I'll have good kids. Some of the things that other coaches have to worry about -- losing your best player because of academics -- I won't have to worry about. I just have to get them to play basketball.

Mary Ford

I've always been a big believer in transfers -- I understand the mentality, ... I've always believed transfers have an axe to grind. They come in with an incredible hunger, and I love the year they sit out, improve their academics and their game, and learn the system. And for us, these are really, really, really good basketball players.

Mara Wilson

I've always been more of a nerdy, academic type. I loved 'Star Wars' growing up. I have three older brothers, so they were a big influence on me. We loved 'Danger Mouse,' and we love 'Monty Python'. We loved any kind of British comedy and 'Wallace and Gromit' and all of that stuff.

Thank you to all the members of the Academy for embracing our film about love, and about tolerance, about truth, and thank you to people all around the world who have been been touched by this message.

Teams that use the squad-size adjustment to escape penalty rather than improve their academic practices right away might find the 'pay-me-later' syndrome hard to accept. As more years of APR data become available, teams will find scores harder to change.

It would seem to favor the community colleges, to the detriment of students who would prefer to attend a university. Some kids are better served at community colleges, and some kids are better served at universities. That decision should be based on academic reasons, not economic reasons.

It was ultimately her decision. But we all sat down and ranked the schools in terms of academics and athletics.

It was tough, knowing there was Division I schools where I could have walked on or had opportunities to play Division I-AA. They call you a student-athlete; sometimes the student part has to come first. The environment up there and the academics really mean a lot to me. A lot of people think I'm crazy for passing up those opportunities, but I really feel at peace that I made the right decision.

It was a chance to go away from home to play and I'll probably get to play earlier. Plus, it's a great academic school. It's close to an Ivy League education.

These children have enough on their plates as it is. At Arlington Heights Academy they have trust with someone who has been helping them all along. You want to take that trust away for a dollar amount?

These emission cuts must begin in the next 10 years if we want to pull this off with a minimum of economic impact. As the National Academy of Sciences has emphasized, delay makes the job much harder. A slow start will mean a crash finish.

J. C. Watts

The senate is vital to the academic well-being of the university.

Jack O'Connell

These much-needed funds come at a critical time when state budget cuts are affecting the students who need the most help, ... These funds will help kids meet California's high academic standards so they will be successful in school or the workplace without the need for remedial courses.

The broad conclusion from tons of academic research is that private sector does things better than government. In a lot of these cases privatization is the only thing do because (large state projects) require a lot of capital and government entities usually have limited access to capital.

At Valor, we believe that the personal, social and academic growth of students is a responsibility shared by our students, their parents, the Valor staff, the school district and the community in which we live.

Harry Smith

As long as there are no significant objections, the school should be given the status in time for the academic year beginning in September 2006.

Cary Sherman

As long as students continue to corrupt this specialized academic network for the flagrant theft of music, we will continue to make it clear that there are consequences for these unlawful actions.

Alan was selected after a comprehensive search and review process. Our paths have crossed frequently over the past 15 years and I believe Alan's wealth of experience should be of great value to our Academy in advancing the many exciting initiatives we have for the future.

We've got a lot of runs that have been playing for a month, and some of these markets are over-encumbered. So there's a weakness in some of these theaters that are playing out. It's a function of normal attrition, despite the Academy awards stuff. It's the core markets that it's important to sustain.

We will be seeking the academic perspective throughout this process, and in fact have begun so already with the formation of a faculty advisory committee.

We will be going out to each academic unit to talk about implementation in order to keep them informed throughout the process. No one will be left in the dark.

This very possibly has something to do with the fact that this week the Academy will announce this year's winner.

Henry Jenkins

What's exciting about this (symposium) is the total fusion of fan and academic discussions. That's a breaking down of the walls that hasn't occurred in many other places.