Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ivan Illich

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

Tre Cool

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

Sugata Mitra

Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are.

Franz Grillparzer

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.

Edwin Land

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

Huston Smith

Science is empirical, all about physical senses that tell us about the world. But physical senses are not the only senses we have. Nobody has ever seen a thought. Nobody has ever seen a feeling. And yet thoughts and feelings are where we live our lives most immediately, and science cannot connect with that.

Brian Schmidt

Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions.

Carrie Snow

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Greg Graffin

Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority that came before you. That's consistent with the punk rock ethos that suggests that you should not take what people say at face value...

E. T. Bell

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

Alan Kay

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

Michelangelo Antonioni

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

Scott Adams

Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.

Quincy Jones

Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.

Beau Bridges

Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

Nick Turse

Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences. New Yorkers will remember well the end result of clandestine U.S. support for Islamic militants against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the 1980s: 9/11.

Ahmed Chalabi

Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.

Karen Kingsbury

Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual.

George Nethercutt

Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual continuation is not guaranteed.

Dennis Ross

Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners.

Jean Baudrillard

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

Mel Torme

See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.

Ira Sachs

Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York.

Paul Begala

See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners.

George William Russell

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

Greg Iles

See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.

Erich Fromm

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

Frederic William Farrar

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

Carole King

Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album.

Vernon Jordan

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

Johnny Isakson

Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.

Louis de Bernieres

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.

Jackie Kennedy

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

Marquis de Sade

'Sex' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

Jacki Weaver

Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.

Andy Warhol

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

Victoria Wood

Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?

Douglas Booth

Sexuality is such a small part of the make-up of someone; it's not who they are.

Anita Diament

Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.

Katharine Lee Bates

Shakespeare's frequent horseback journeys from London to Stratford, and from Stratford to London, must have made him familiar with the county of Oxfordshire.

Julie Burchill

Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

Richard Engel

Shaped like Texas, but twice as big, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. It exports almost nothing - mostly just cotton, gold and livestock - and doesnt have enough money to import much of anything, either.

Richard Stallman

Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.

Robert B. Parker

She found me intolerable. But she got to know me, and I wore her down.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

Helena Bonham Carter

She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater.

Bob Fosse

She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.

Brian Austin Green

She really mellowed me out that way. We both definitely grew with each other and with the whole experience.

Sri Aurobindo

She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.