Famous Quotes & Sayings

Suzanne Farrell

You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.

Sutton Foster

And, as an adult, I tried skiing, and I ended up in tears.

Susan Wiggs

Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.

Susanna Kaysen

Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and my classmates.

Suzanne Collins

If I feel ragged, my prep team seems in worse condition, knocking back coffee and sharing brightly colored little pills. As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair.

Suzanne Collins

It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss.

Suzanne Collins

Cleaning me up is just a preliminary step to determining my new look. With my acid-damaged hair, sunburned skin, and ugly scars, the prep team has to make me pretty and then damage, burn, and scare me in a more attractive way.

Suzanne Collins

I think of the snarling, cruel exchange back on the hovercraft. The bitterness that followed. But all I say is "I can't believe you didn't rescue Peeta." "I know," he replies. There's a sense of incompleteness. And not because he hasn't apologized. But because we were a team. We had a deal to keep Peeta safe. A drunken, unrealistic deal made in the dark of night, but a deal just the same. And in my heart of hearts, I know we both failed. "Now you say it," I tell him. "I can't believe you let him out of your sight that night," says Haymitch.

Suzanne Collins

But in school I remember hearing that for the second Quarter Quell, the Capitol demanded that twice the number of tributes be provided for the arena. The teachers didn't go into much more detail, which is surprising, because that was the year District 12's very own Haymitch Abernathy won the crown.

Taron Egerton

I'm into books – I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.

Taslima Nasrin

Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?

Taryn Manning

Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.

Steve Stivers

The military taught me that teamwork is important, which is why I work with both Republicans and Democrats in Congress to get things done. It also taught me that everyone brings a different perspective, whether I agree with it or not, which helps me bridge the divide in Congress.

Steve Tisch

As many Giants fans know, we're one of the few teams without cheerleaders.

Steve Spurrier

So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.

Stephen Mangan

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.

Stephen Mitchell

Even the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him.

Stephen Lang

Whether I appear in 'Avatar 2' or 'Avatar 3', I always feel I'm a part of the 'Avatar' team.

Stephen Leacock

I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day.

Stephen King

Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.

Stephen King

Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.

Stephen King

The only [working] ritual is making tea. I use the loose leaves and drink it by the gallon.

Stephen King

The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.

Stephen King

Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.

Stephen King

Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teachers that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.

Stephanie Rice

I think there is more pressure at trials when you are trying to make the team and you have to come first or second, and you have to go under qualifying time.

Starhawk

All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.

Sophie Thompson

I think I always wanted to be an actor - sounds a bit boring, doesn't it? And I pretended once that I wanted to be a vet because one of the teachers asked me and saying you want to be an actor sounds a little bit silly. And I do still feel a bit silly saying it. You feel a bit fraudulent.

Sophia Bush

I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid.

Solomon Ortiz

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

Solomon Ortiz

I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models.

Solomon Ortiz

Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.

Solomon Ortiz

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.