Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Post

Regardless of how legitimate it looks, it's a fraud. No government agency or company is going to ask for sensitive information over e-mail.

Gregg Wilson

Regardless of age, what we want is people who are physically active, doing those things they can.

Phil Crane

Re-examining all of the federal departments and agencies and whether they should exist is the next great battle for conservatives.

Bob Lohn

Recent information and further analysis leads our agency to conclude that the Southern Resident killer whale population is at risk of extinction, and should be listed as endangered. By giving it protection under the ESA, we have a better chance of keeping this population alive for future generations.

Philip Ruddock

Relevant agencies are currently assessing the statements made in the video but at this stage indications are that it is authentic,

Bill Johnson

Release of the draft environmental impact statement represents a significant milestone in the review process. This document gives the public a detailed look at the project and its consequences. There's also the opportunity to provide feedback for agency consideration.

Esther Dyson

Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age

Michael Gallagher

President Bush's committed focus on wireless as a catalyst for technology growth is paying dividends. His leadership resulted in the historic agreement of the Department of Defense and other agencies to open up the frequencies, as well as the passage of key legislation a year ago that will make the 2006 auctions a reality.

Karl Rove

Our party will win (in November) because we have an agenda to run on and that Americans agree on.

Steve Young

refused to recognize that in the last 20 years the quarterback position has become blind to color.

Atharva Veda

People have become blind having lost the two eyes called faith; just because one cannot see, is God not present? May be, not for some but for others He is (present).

Ray Hultman

People just wouldn't take those blinders off long enough to really look at all the evidence that was there.

Daniel Barcelo

Others have been more willing to take risks. Some say Exxon is actually being blind and missing out on huge opportunities for growth.

Nancy Pelosi

Republicans are blinded by their culture of cronyism and corruption, ... They're crumbling, arrogantly protecting their power.

Bronson Arroyo

Manny is a strange guy. Outward, he's happy-go-lucky. On the inside, he's got a lot of conspiracy theories going on. Obviously, Manny might be one of those guys when he's 50 years old he might be in his house with all the blinds shut and looking out and the CIA is after him. You don't know, man. You don't know what's going on his head.

Grant Marshall

I think they turned a blind eye to that one. Colin Campbell's not doing his job.

Jamin Raskin

It is being blind to history not to recognize that the criminal justice system has been trained on the African-American community to try to control it, contain it, to break its spirit.

Shawn Hayes

Korea has a long history of turning a blind eye to corporate crime.

Jamie Campbell Bower

I went to boarding school in the country, so there's no real differentiation between family and friends. I went there from when I was 8 until I was 17 - it was insane. If you earn my friendship, you are my family, and I'll do anything for you.

Julian Ovenden

I think I've got better at expressing my emotions. But going through the education system I went through - I don't think you can go to boarding school and come out without feeling a little repressed - yes, it does leave its mark on you.

Deirdre O'Kane

Growing up, I was your classic Catholic Irish kid. I went to mass every Sunday. Then in secondary school I went to boarding school, and there was mass seven days a week before breakfast - it may have put me off!

Scott Haze

I was born in Dallas; then I moved to Allen, Texas. But then I got sent to boarding school, where I started to get fascinated with actors like Al Pacino.

Paul Goldberger

It is something akin to boarding the Concorde and then discovering at the end of your trip that you had debarked at Grand Central Terminal.

Marie-Chantal Claire

I was spending most of my summers in Greece when I was a little girl, and at boarding school my first room-mate was Greek, so I guess I kind of had that Greek destiny.

Jared Harris

I was stuck in boarding school when I was seven years old and I knew that the only way to get out was to go pass your exams, so I studied.

Bruce Clark

he says before boarding a Red Line train, ''what I want, what I can do.

Rabih Alameddine

When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.

Albena Denkova

It is a very big surprise, but like Maxim says it is just the compulsory dance. We will have to wait until the end of the competition.

Rachel Tucker

I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.

Brendan Barber

Instead of the further help for the better-off that new incentives would provide, the government should phase in compulsory savings for employers and employees.

Charles Albert Gobat

Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference.

Bill Stewart

We think that any references to compulsory redundancies are completely inappropriate.

P. J. O'Rourke

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

Robert Battle

I studied martial arts before I studied dance.

Steven Blair

We've studied this from many perspectives in women and in men, and we get the same answer: It's not the obesity, it's the fitness.

Idina Menzel

Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.

Flea

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

Poe Ballantine

I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

Edward Brooke

I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.

Marcelo Balboa

I never really studied the game. I just watched tape of who I had to cover. That was my studying.

B. F. Skinner

Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.

B. F. Skinner

The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.

B. F. Skinner

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

B. F. Skinner

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

Billy Corgan

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

Bill Engvall

I've come up with the three things you never want to hear at your kid's parent/teacher conference. Number one: 'You're only responsible for the first $10,000 worth of damage.' Number two: 'We have medication for this.' And number three: 'It was more than an ounce and he was less than a hundred yards from the school.'

Bill Cosby

When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.

Bill Cosby

I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.

Bharati Mukherjee

What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Swag is something that I've had for a long time.

E. O. Wilson

Springtime is the time for gazing at galaxies.

Adam Carolla

spontaneous, clever, specific, oblique and at the same time very human.

S. Walker

That could be a possibility. I'm thinking, hopefully, we can get something worked out. As of right now, we'll just take it one day at a time and see what happens.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Boy George

Most psychiatrists or analysts are a waste of time

Bob Rose

We need solidarity. This is a union town, and it's time to show that.

Richard Codey

Well, at least it was until Aug. 12, 2004.

I. Stone

I want to wait until I get the right heart.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Lofa Tatupu

I won't even think about it until I get there.

Corey Brewer

I won't know what everyone is going to do until I guess, a week from now.

Ichiro Suzuki

I won't know until I wake up (today).

Enid Goldstein

I was up until 1 a.m. (Monday) cleaning.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.