Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Zora Neale Hurston

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

William H. McRaven

If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. . . . And, if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made - that you made - and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.

Will McDonough

I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.

Wendy Wasserstein

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

Josie Bissett

Dreams come a size too big so we can grow into them.

Joss Whedon

Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

Joss Whedon

Don't just be yourself. Be all of yourself. Don't just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not follow where the path may lead.

Laurie Anderson

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

Terry Teachout

I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.

Shannon Lucid

I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.

Leonard Orr

If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to discipline you.

Leonard Nimoy

What mark will I leave behind? How will anyone know I have been here? What sign will tell the future traveler I existed? 'I am here! Today... I exist'. I believe the deepest impression is made in those moments when I can say 'I care, I love'.

Lee Pace

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

Marc Garneau

I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

Robert Sternberg

ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

Wally Amos

Be clear about what you want to accomplish, and whether the circumstances surrounding you are actively helping you toward the goal.

Tom Brokaw

Think of it as your ticket to change the world.