Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darryl F. Zanuck

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.

Darryl Dawkins

For years, people always say, "Ah, what about the dunk. It's still two points." But it energizes a team. If you're down and you get a monster dunk, everybody gets psyched. "Oh yeah, let's go, let's go." So it was dying down a little bit and guys, I think, they took it upon themselves. They got energy on it and started trying different stuff.

Dave Eggers

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

Dave Eggers

High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in.

David Limbaugh

Obama's Marxist mentors - Franklin Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers - also understood that you don't build an army of street organizers or a recurring voting constituency by teaching people of the streets to fish. When you 'share wealth around' you make the distributees dependent on your next handout - beholden to your largesse with other's people's money and personally worse off in every respect.

David Levithan

I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.

David Levithan

teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke.

David Letterman

Rick Perry, started out like a ball of fire from Texas and then he started to drop and now he's retooling. He's adding advisers to his campaign team. This guy had advisers? Really?

David Letterman

Life experience is the best teacher.

David Letterman

Today would have been the birthday of Osama bin Laden. It makes me remember when Seal Team 6 threw him a surprise party.

David Letterman

The Hillary team is driving around in a van. Sometimes people get those gag bumper stickers put on their van. Hillary has one on her van, and it says, 'If this van's rockin', I'm deleting emails.'

David Gill

Arsenal are a great team. But we lifted the trophy eight times in 11 years.

David Gergen

The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.

David Blunkett

I love the walk although my security team weren't too sure to begin with but I was anxious to be able to lead a near normal life. Whilst walking I do get the chance to meet people and keep in touch.

David Bohm

To change your reality you have to change your inner thoughts.

David Karp

Our team isn’t changing. … And our mission – to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve – certainly isn’t changing.

David Karp

We couldn't be happier with our Storyboard team's effort.

David Karp

The biggest lesson has been the importance of constantly repeating the mission. It means bringing the team together every week to talk about all of our projects, progress, and vision.

David E. Kelley

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

David Eddings

I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.

David Eddings

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!

David Eddings

The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.

David Beckham

I was forced to masturbate in front of teammates

David Benioff

I'm just not a natural teacher.

Deion Sanders

Marshawn Lynch is the heart of this team. If he's not going, the Seahawks aren't going.

Debbie Reynolds

I loved working with Bette Davis. Bette Davis was great to work with and a wonderful teacher, and very kind to me. We became good friends.

Debbie Macomber

I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.

Daymond John

Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.

Dax Shepard

I'm an off-road racecar driver. And I think every woman in my life has told me that's not a sensible hobby. But when I was growing, even more than I wanted to be funny, I wanted to be a racecar driver. That's all I thought about. I worked for a race team when I was 15 and I traveled with them.

Dean Norris

When my kids started preschool, the teachers had to take away all the fake bananas because all the boys would pick them up and pretend that they were guns. Boys find sticks to play swords and anything that looks like a gun to shoot. It's just inside of them. It's who they are.

Andie MacDowell

When I was 23, basically I stopped modelling and started going to school, and was able to study with wonderful teachers.

Amar'e Stoudemire

On paper we might be the best team in the league. We’ve got great players on this team who accomplished so much. We just couldn’t put it together.

Amartya Sen

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.