Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wiater

When they get moving on the construction, there will be 75-80 construction workers, and when the plant is all geared up, the workforce will (more than) double. All hiring is done under the West Virginia Jobs Act, which means 75 percent of them have to be local workers.

Steve Chavis

We're pretty geared up for the conference. We try to produce the state-of-the-art men's ministry weekend.

Kerri Strug

My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics.

Tom Massey

NonStop is big iron and more geared to larger operators. Linux and Unix platforms scale down much better, and operators often prefer them because they are not knowledgeable about NonStop.

Mike Machowsky

She always had talent, but mentally ... she would get geared up and wound up.

Vonda Shepard

I thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and it wasn't clicking.

Jennifer Long

I thought they did a nice job on defense. We struggled to get our offense going. The girls were really geared up for this game. I have a lot of respect for Sofia and her capabilities. She involves her teammates, and that's very commendable.

Carole Winkleblack

We have materials in a number of languages. But most of those language materials are really geared toward learning another language.

Jerry Stackhouse

We would like to think that everything we're doing now is geared toward the playoffs. We know we're better than how we've been playing lately. It's been good to talk about the race with San Antonio, but we have to worry about getting back on track.

Oliver Luck

From this day forward, the Houston 1836 logo will be a symbol of a hardworking team. This is a team for Houston. If you live in Houston, you must like it here. If you like Houston, come out and support another Houston franchise.

Bill White

Hurricane Rita is dangerous, and Houston is well-prepared,

Ray Stone

We pre-positioned about 60, some in Houston and some in Atlanta, so we could set up a storm office as it unfolded and move the others in quickly.

Conan O'Brien

A store in Houston is selling Donald Trump piñatas filled with candy. So finally something good is going to come out of Donald Trump.

David Foster

Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio

Roger Clemens

When I tried the sandwich, I had to invest with Nolan Ryan in the Houston market.

Brad Lidge

When you're a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have really changed.

Edward Hirsch

When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry.

Barbara Morgan

I'm living here now. This is my place. I'm not going back. People in Houston have been wonderful to us,

Geno Auriemma

I think she's taking it pretty seriously. You know, it's that time of the year.

Justin Smiley

I think he's taking it pretty well, but I know it's tough.

Bob Hunter

I thought I was going to be a reporter, taking notes,

David Jacobson

I feel like this is part of something big he is doing, ... Like taking over the world.

Joe Crawford

I feel like I'm getting better every game, more comfortable, just being aggressive, taking my opportunities.

Andrea Mitchell

I feel terribly guilty. I'm not used to taking off time at all.

Angelo Crowell

Just taking things more serious, taking a different approach. I was kind of transformed, so it's kind of cool.

Steve Smith

I have a one-track mind. I was not taking the hitch. I wanted to go for the goal.

Will Blackmon

He's calm. Relaxed. He's not nervous. He's taking control.

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?

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Charlotte Church

The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better.

Samuel Larsen

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

John Calvin

dispensers and administrators of the Devine beneficence towards us.

Allison Scagliotti

I do feel more towards certain characters who have depth and intelligence.

Valerie June

When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.