Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Hanson

Part of the struggle was probably the fact that we gave the kids a few days off once we got back to get them back into rhythm on an academic side.

Michael Kennedy

Part of what we do in the meetings is deal with business from the Senate Committee on Academic Affairs. A part of their job is approving new classes.

David Smith

Our objective is we want their behavior to improve, their academic skills to improve and see their attendance records improve.

Terry Hollander

Our new coaching staff has adopted a 'hands-on' approach to monitoring study halls as well as setting the expectations for class attendance and performance. We have seen a remarkable improvement in the academic performance of the individual team members, but know that this is a ... responsibility that requires continuing attention.

Jeb Bush

States are free to modify the Common Core State Standards or adopt their own individual standards, because academic standards are the prerogative of the states.

Larry Cook

State-of-the-art laboratories are essential in our quest to recruit internationally known biomedical scientists and is key to our staying competitive as an academic health sciences center.

George J. Mitchell

Stanford. It's a pretty good university, and everyone seems to like their academic stores.

Charles Haynes

Some of the courses I've encountered around the country over 20 years would not pass muster in a court of law. They're closer to Sunday School than legitimate academic courses.

David Doyle

Our producers were tasked with finding the best and brightest the academic engineering world has to offer for the tasks at hand. Stanford is among the top engineering programs worldwide and therefore was a natural fit.

Kent Perkins

Our focus has never been on fast runners. That's why there's no prize money. . . . In terms of attracting big names, our philosophy is we want to provide this quality of service to our runners.

Bob Colarossi

The Amgen Tour of California is attracting a caliber of riders in its first year that is evidence of the high esteem the race is being given by the international cycling community. This field is unprecedented in the history of modern American cycling and we're excited to host such an accomplished group of cyclists. It's our goal to give them a first-class experience in California.

Christina Gilgor

It has an overarching impact on the state in terms of attracting tourism, attracting conventions and attracting businesses that want to make their home here. It is very unfortunate that the governor has chosen to scapegoat a minority group in this way.

Scott Thompson

I can tell you, in the past five years, we've seen a continued and remarkable decrease in risk management issues, hazing issues and all that stuff continues to decrease year in and year out. A lot of that is because the type of men we are attracting to our organizations are the ones who are looking to do well academically, who are looking to get something out of college beyond the party experience.

Michael Biehn

I would say that one of the things that we are proud of is that we are attracting very interesting guest stars. One is Tyne Daly, who has done a wonderful job.

Jon Lindhout

If someone moves here from the Midwest, the first thing that is attracting them here is the water.

Dan Rottenberg

One of the big challenges of family companies is attracting outside talent.

Jeffrey Grau

Online retailers were very successful in attracting early holiday shoppers by offering incentives such as free shipping and discounts. However low prices may end up hurting Web merchants' profit margins in the long run.

Koichiro Suzuki

Money is starting to shift to insurers. They are attracting buyers who are betting on the inflated value of their assets.

Kathleen Hohl

Regardless of the number of men we ordain to the priesthood each year, that number does not keep pace with the number of priests who retire from the ministry. As a result of fewer priests, the need for well-trained lay ministers is even more important.

Jon Peck

Our report can only reflect the numbers provided to the state. There are larger communities that reported fewer than some smaller communities.

Ken Goldstein

Part of the real story here is that, through July, producers were still getting more output, with fewer labor hours put in. Productivity in the third quarter is probably going to be stronger than in the second quarter, confirming the idea that, while the stock market's not in good shape, the overall economy's not that bad.

Anthony Chukumba

Pier 1 needs to fix the problem with its merchandise. Fewer people are going into their stores because they're not selling anything different,

Josh Bernoff

It doesn't matter how friendly you are if the end result is people watching fewer commercials,

Greg Knapp

I think he did a great job last year of taking a lot fewer hits. He understands how important his health is to this team and that he doesn't need to put himself in harm's way.

Teju Cole

I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and more 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 300 pages I've written.'

Jason Falkner

I feel that recording a song already compromises the magical music one can create in the mind, so the fewer people watering down this process the better.

Curtis Eccles

Jack is taking fewer shots because of the double-teams. He's doing a good job of finding the open man.

Randy Cunneyworth

Our leadership has to step forward, and not just by being vocal in the room.

Marvin Miller

Some of the players were leaning on leadership to do most destabilizing thing possible for a union, to open they contract. They will rue the day they did this.

Christopher Whitney

Republicans aren't thinking as they used to think on these issues. There has been a role reversal at the leadership level and it has trickled down.

Peter Drucker

Management is doing a thing right; leadership is doing the right things.

Emily Williams

I'm here to teach them about JSU and different leadership positions and their roles.

Bill Shuster

Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business.

Cathy Rigby

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

Carrie Underwood

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

Bergen Evans

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

Paul Charles

Our market share has risen to record levels on the most competitive routes in Europe.

Chris Dwyer

Stable water levels are really important for management of vegetation.

Rory Fitzpatrick

Playoffs are always a big jump. I've been through it at different levels and in the NHL.

Billy Corgan

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

Bill Sienkiewicz

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it

Benoit Mandelbrot

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

Michael Holland

I think we are down to levels were people have said enough is enough.

Ned Yost

I think we all were (impressed). There's some reason why he has jumped three levels in a year and a half. You could see why today.

Greg Miller

He just sets new levels of expectations for himself.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Our nation doesn't need nuclear weapons. You can use nuclear technology in several ways, and we want to do so peacefully.

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

Steve Gibson

Our wines are doing quite well in national and international competitions.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

Bill Daly

We now have a national product we can sell in United States, ... When you're perceived as a regional sport, you can't sell national sponsorship agreements.

Edward Collins

We need a backstop of a national catastrophe fund,

Dana Rohrabacher

The American people understand that in order to get an organization like the United Nations to reform, there must be consequences.

Chris Bosh

I think it's (the national team selection) a little bigger.

Alex Salmond

It had 1,000 years as an independent nation before the union,

Melanie Sloan

Particularly in the House, the progress is very slow and may end up with very little reform.

Bertrand Russell

Change is one thing, progress is another.

Bertrand Russell

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

Bertrand Russell

The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.

John Bolton

I think we are still making progress. I think it is slow but it is steady,

Wayne Inouye

I think things are on track and we're very enthusiastic about the progress we've made to date. We have just started a long journey. I don't think that everything is perfect.

Ty Warren

I think we're more satisfied with the progression, and the progress we've made through the season from where we started to where we are right now. It's a whole other season that's going to start right now.

Sandy Bridgeman

I think we?re making the progress that we want to. It?s not perfect. But there are glimpses of the team we can be.

Scott Sutton

I think we're making some progress but tonight we ran out of steam in the third period,

Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

Carl Sagan

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

Carl Sagan

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Carl Sagan

I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

Carl Sagan

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

Carl Sagan

There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

Carl Sagan

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science

Jeff Probst

Survivor. With all the women together, there's no modesty.

B. R. Ambedkar

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Carrie Snow

If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.

Carrie Chapman Catt

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Carrie Chapman Catt

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Bette Davis

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

Heinrich Heine

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day

Stephen Lewis

It is always the village women who drive these things.

Jaime Pressly

I think it's sexy when women have shapely bodies.