Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Van Dyke

Some people never change their mind through their whole lives, about anything, despite new information that comes in. And now that we know that homosexuality is not a choice, it's biological, I think we have to love and understand them.

Dick Van Dyke

I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler.

Diane Johnson

Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people.

Diane Johnson

...is this not in fact the purpose of young Americans going abroad? To make them think of things they never thought of?

Diane Paulus

I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the class every week.

Diane Paulus

Im always interested in working with people who are good team players - that are selfless that way in their interests and dedication to the project.

Diane Lane

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

Diane Ravitch

In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can close the achievement gap. And it hasn't happened. Yet the new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, is based on the same test-based and market-driven framework and ideology, except it lets the states do it.

Diane Ravitch

The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.

Diane Ravitch

You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.

Diane Ravitch

Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well-educated teachers and a sound educational program.

Diane Ravitch

What is happening to teachers now across this nation is a disgrace. The attacks on them are a blot on our nation. Teachers and students are not different interest groups. Anyone who demeans teachers demeans education and hurts children.

Diane Ravitch

Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.

Diane Ravitch

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

Diane Ravitch

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

Diane Ravitch

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

Diane Sawyer

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

Diane Sawyer

I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.

Diane Sawyer

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

Diane Sawyer

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

Diane Sawyer

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

Diane Sawyer

Einstein was always looking for a unifying principle for the universe. I think anxiety about hair is the unifying principle.

Diane Sawyer

I love cabdrivers. I love their unpredictable manners. I love the pictures of their families on the visors. I love the fact that most of them think I'm Martha Stewart.

Diane Sawyer

I think no one knows my politics.

Diane Sawyer

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

Diane Lane

Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.

Diane Lane

I try not to be overly analytical.

Diane Lane

I think I'd be in an entirely different business if it were easy.

Diane Keaton

I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.

Diane Keaton

What makes a heroine? I think I can answer that. A heroine is a woman who risks going too far in order to find out how far one can go for a cause greater than herself.

Diane Keaton

That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.

Diane Keaton

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.

Diane Keaton

My thinking about plastic surgery is this. I haven't had it, but never say never. Because when you do, you are definitely going to go there.