Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denise Levertov

Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because they wouldn't have jobs, otherwise. But it's phony, you know.

Denis Waitley

Failure should be our teacher..

Denis Waitley

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Denis Waitley

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Denis Leary

You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.

Diego Luna

I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.

Diego Maradona

I'm not desperate but I know that some day I'll be the coach again of some team.

Diego Maradona

I'd give my life to be the national team coach.

Diego Maradona

While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team's victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent

Diego Maradona

When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.

Dick Bennett

I must learn what I can to teach what I must.

Dick Cavett

I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.

Dennis Muren

Other times you can get showy for three minutes, and that's OK with certain films. But that isn't right with an Ang Lee movie, you have to fit right in. You have to understand Ang, respect him and be part of the team and not be in charge of it - he is in charge of it.

Dennis Kucinich

Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction, homelessness, a weapon of mass destruction... racism, a weapon of mass destruction, fear, a weapon of mass destruction. We must disarm these weapons and renew our commitment to quality public schools and dedicated teachers and good housing and quality health care and decent jobs and stronger neighborhoods.

Dennis Miller

By and large, I think it should be a rule in the teacher employment manual that you can't go attend any event where if you took your classroom on a student field trip, they would summarily be obliterated. That should be rule No. 1.

Dennis Miller

The Democrats continue to snipe at Bush. They'll never give it up to him. You know Teddy Kennedy and Tom Daschle pick more nits than a father and son spider monkey team who know they're being followed by a National Geographic film crew.

Dennis Miller

Nothing ruins the mood during foreplay more than the recurring image of your sixty-five-year-old homeroom teacher trying to stretch a condom over a cucumber.

Deepak Chopra

You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox.

Deepak Chopra

Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

Edward Snowden

Let's put it this way. The United States government has assembled a massive investigation team into me personally, into my work with the journalists, and they still have no idea what documents were provided to the journalist, what they have, what they don't have, because encryption works.

Edward Everett

All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.

Ed Sheeran

It's too cold outside for angels to fly.

Earl Weaver

You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.

Earl Weaver

Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

Ed Koch

Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.

Earl Monroe

I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.

Earl Butz

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

Elizabeth May

There is not enough tea in the world to calm me.

Elizabeth Kostova

I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion to my own.

Elizabeth Kostova

It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over whenever they occurred. (Our teachers deplored this and added extra units about social history and protest movements, but that was still the message of the books.)

Elizabeth Olsen

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

Eliza Coupe

I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometimes take my tests out in the hallways because I couldn't focus. But, my teachers would come see me in the plays and were like 'I don't understand how you can focus and be in the moment in a play and you go into math class and you can't focus.

Edwin Land

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.