Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marya Mannes

the incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even if the brain is irretrievably damaged or lung and heart incapable of functioning without mechanical help. Now it is not dust to dust, but human to vegetable.

Marya Hornbacher

My students know I have a life, they know I've written about my life. They know some detail, probably more than they know about their physics teacher, but I would've told them anyway!

Marya Hornbacher

When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?

Mary J. Blige

I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms.

Martha Grimes

And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, From a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petit fours a friend of mine gave me for Christmas.

Marsilio Ficino

A sturdy lad . . . who teams it, farms it . . . and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls.

Martha Beck

If you see failure as a monster stalking you, or one that has already ruined your life, take another look. That monster can become a benevolent teacher, opening your mind to successes you cannot now imagine.

Marshall McLuhan

Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.

Mark Grace

A slumpbuster is when you have to take one for the team. It's finding the biggest, nastiest, fattest broad, and you put the wood to her to come out of your slump. Also known as 'jumping on a grenade for the team'.

Mark Harmon

Some people say it's scarier to direct the people you work with; not me, I'm a team guy.

Marisa Tomei

I've sought out several dance teachers-shaman-like women dance teachers-to get in touch with the mystical through movement.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

All the tears women shed, they leave no mark on the world...

Marguerite Young

I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

Oswald Chambers

Our Lord’s teaching is always anti-self-realization. His purpose is not the development of a man; His purpose is to make a man exactly like Himself, and the characteristic of the Son of God is self-expenditure.

Oswald Chambers

If Jesus is a teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize us by erecting a standard we cannot come anywhere near. But if by being born again from above we know Him first as Savior, we know that He did not come to teach us only. He came to make us what He teaches we should be. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His way with us.

Oswald Chambers

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

Oswald Chambers

Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is - Never look for justice, but never cease to give it.

Paul Scholes

There have been so many outstanding players I've had as team-mates, but if I had to choose I'd choose Giggsy, he can do anything.

Paul Samuelson

Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.

Paul Harvey

Yoga is a product of Eastern thought. A further complication is that the early Yoga teachers were both Indian and Hindu. So from the late 1800's and early 1900's the Yoga teachers who came across were as interested in Hinduism as in Yoga. Often what we were being taught was a mixture of two different systems.

Paul Haggis

Independent films are very hard to get made, but I'm lucky enough to get them made, so I'm going to keep doing it. I like my independence. I like being able to tell a story the way I want to tell a story. I don't like developing it with a team. I like coming to a story and deciding whether I want to do it or not.

Paul Goodman

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

Pau Gasol

I just need to get more aggressive and let my teammates feel all that energy and all that emotion.

Pau Gasol

Nobody had faith in me when I got here except my team. That's what carried me through all the transition problems and adjustments and everything.

Pau Gasol

If our minds and hearts are into it, we can be a heck of a team. We can beat anybody.

Paul Allen

In the computer industry, you've got an interdisciplinary team of people who can come together, attack the problem, and work in a collaborative style. You knock down one problem after another, cobble things together, and then hopefully turn the crank at some point.

Patrick Kane

I think maybe our team was too young and stupid to even know what was going on.

Pat Bowlen

Although his playing career with the Broncos took place before my time with the team, I am well aware of what Floyd Little means to this franchise, city and league. Aside from his stellar play on the field, he helped make the Broncos relevant in the NFL and strengthened the bond between this team and its fans. He has waited a long time for this honor, and I couldn't be happier for him.

Pat Boone

Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.

Pat Conroy

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

Pat Conroy

The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave

Pat Conroy

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.

Pat Conroy

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.