Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Heffernan

Openness isn't the end; it's the beginning.

Michael Flatley

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

Michael Bloomberg

In the game of life, when the final buzzer sounds, the only stat you carry with you is the number of assists you made.

Riki Lindhome

I think my parents wanted me to be whatever I wanted to be. But I do remember them - when I first moved out to L.A. - sending me applications to grad school for teaching.

Chris Thompson

I just stay out of trouble to stay out of trouble. I do it so I can graduate, so I can get out of here.

I just kind of got gradually better and better, and then one day it clicked, and I did pretty well ever since, I'm going to miss it too much after I leave (Manheim Township).

I moved to New York in '92 and got my graduate degree in acting from NYU - they have a great acting program. I graduated in '95.

Joseph Addison

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

Lisa Kudrow

I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime

The guy said, 'You probably don't remember me, but we went to first grade together,' ... Then he said, 'Can you help me find a ticket?' I told him, 'You're right, I don't remember you. And I can't help you get a ticket either.'

Alan Greenspan

A gradual reduction over time of the GSE portfolios should be a non-event to investors and market participants, other than GSE shareholders,

John Adams

Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences...

Eric Idle

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

Frederick Reines

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

George Foreman

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

Barry Long

The true in the false, gradually strips away all self-delusion until all that remains is pure being.

This is something that's going to happen gradually over time.

Ella Fitzgerald

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

Stephen Colbert

Thankfully dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses. So whatever your dream is right now, if you don't achieve it, you haven't failed and you're not some loser-but just as importantly-if you do get your dream, you're not a winner.

Stephen Colbert

You are about to start the greatest improvisation of all. With no script. No idea what's going to happen, often with people and places you have never seen before. And you are not in control. So say 'yes.' And if you're lucky, you'll find people who will say 'yes' back.

Stephen Colbert

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

Richard P. Feynman

What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

Ruben Hinojosa

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

Ruben Hinojosa

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

Richard Russo

Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.

Ronnie Lott

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

You'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

Samuel West

Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read.

Winston Churchill

Never give in, never give in, never give in.

Winston Churchill

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Woody Hayes

You'll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never.

W. E. B. Du Bois

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.