Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are gradually showing people the value of our technology, but it is a tough market.

William Lyon Phelps

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

Alice Sebold

I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet.

Al Jourgensen

You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot.

Douglas Smith

You don't really want to be responsible for the unwinding, because you can't be sure the markets will react in a gradual way.

Ving Rhames

Since I graduated college, all I have ever done for a living was acting.

Adam Savage

There's few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.

Amy Poehler

The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.

Larry Wilcox

It's like with a girl: it's more fun to meet and slowly, gradually learn things about each other. A little mystery is always nice and it's interesting to still learn new things about someone you are involved with.

Where are all the kids who graduated the last 25 years? There is nothing to keep them here.

Nikki Reed

My mom and I would make bracelets and necklaces, and I would sell it in the first, second, and third grades because that was my lunch money.

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

There is a very gradual improvement, but the rate of improvement is painfully slow.

Ivy Lee

We don't have high school graduates teaching our kids.

Sean Hayes

We are really pleased with our results and 69% of students received A to C grade passes.

William Christopher

I've often wondered about people that come to the profession late in life. I've wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was... magic.

Elizabeth Warren

I graduated law school nine months pregnant and didn't take a job.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

Ravi Shankar

I started out as a dancer, but gradually became more interested in music.

Tommy Caldwell

I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation.

Bikram Choudhury

Why must everyone need a doctorate to teach? You can be a graduate from my institute in two months and for $11,000.

Al Madrigal

I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.

Ving Rhames

I graduated on a Friday. By Monday, I was doing Shakespeare in the Park.

One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence.

Marilyn Nelson

One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested I prepare a book manuscript which he could send to publishers for me.

Langhorne Slim

To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.

Louis Zamperini

I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.

Lorrie Moore

When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'

Kourtney Kardashian

I remember in seventh grade we used to wear lipstick to school, and the teachers would get so angry, and they'd steal our lipstick if we had them.

Janet Yellen

Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.

I am undecided on my major, but I'm leaning toward psychology, ... I plan on graduating, even if the NBA comes calling. I am going to graduate.

Anne Sebba

More women than men graduate in media studies. They don't know how to find a fixer; they don't know about weaponry; they don't know where is safe, where is not safe - they just want to prove themselves.