Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gustav Kuhn

Our visual representation of the world is much more impoverished than we would assume. People can be looking at something without being aware of it. Perception doesn't just involve looking at an object but attending to it.

Sylvia Harriss

I think the reason the board of directors wants to encourage and motivate our students by offering them a scholarship at an early age is so their families can start to think about preparing, attending and paying for college.

Jeff Arntson

I think our seniors will provide some good leadership. And we've got some great young kids who are excited about making a tradition about attending state tournaments.

Ben Beasley

I think she wanted that (challenge of attending Navy). She entertained a lot of offers from higher nationally ranked soccer programs but felt like the whole Navy experience is what she wanted.

Alice Waters

I think she's really up there at the top. It happens only when somebody is very non-compromising and when somebody is attending to all the details and learning about all the changes in food. The way she has incorporated organic ingredients into her standard repertoire, she is somebody who is keeping up on what's important and getting better at doing it.

Daniel Radcliffe

I think I'm highly normal. I'm attending school after acting, I'm going out with friends, going to the cinema - I'm just doing everything a normal teenager does. People think I can't leave the house without being in a crowd of fans - but that's not true. I'm able to do more things than people might think.

Kike Seda

I thought I had a better chance of getting an appointment to West Point by attending Gordon than I would coming out of a high school in Puerto Rico.

Julie O'Brien

There are so many more people attending than in years past. There's a real new enthusiasm I haven't seen.

Justine Cassell

For young technology enthusiasts, involvement might not mean attending meetings in school gymnasiums or sitting around campfires. Their social or civic engagement may take place in online communities in the glow of their home computer screens.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Some of the young kids look for one hit to be a star; that what they're known for the rest of their life... I never wanted to be known as one thing; that is the reason I do classical theater, write, direct and the blessings God has given me... I want to share.

Aleksey Igudesman

Our first show, 'A Little Nightmare Music,' encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.

Aleksey Igudesman

I was able to turn to classical music many people, who saw my programs live and on YouTube, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.

Kunal Nayyar

I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.

Mark Thielen

That was very successful. It drew a younger crowd, some of whom haven't seen the symphony before. People say classical music is dying out, but I don't think that's the case.

George Porter

I think music helps people through many means; it helps people just get through the day, ... I know when I am having not so good a time I put on some classical music and it just gets me through.

Andrew Wyatt

I studied classical music for a year. Then, I studied jazz for a year at the New School, and then I got kicked out. You had to go to your class, so I don't know if that counts as studying. I didn't study jazz. I was supposed to.

Juliet Rylance

I think more than anything, you should do what you love. If you love classical playwrights, seek out companies or places that are doing that. If you love modern playwrights, try to find groups who are writing new plays or working on new plays. If you love television, watch as much theater and film as you can.

Bartlett Sher

I thought it would be kind of fun to open our next season on a very strong, classical note,

E. B. White

Part of it is because our volunteers are awesome. They are very reliable. Everything went smoothly. Every volunteer who said they were going to come did. This is our eighth time and we have learned a lot.

Mark Shapiro

Our offense got going after he moved to third. We moved him from ninth to eighth to sixth to third, which is a rough responsibility for a player in his first year in the big leagues, and he hasn't blinked.

Ben Braaten

Our team has an interesting mix with five upper classmen, five freshmen and an eighth grader.

John Waller

Our words this week were focus, execute and intensity. I don?t know if we showed any of that in the first half. We?re just too young to play this kind of game at this point in the season. I wish it was the eighth game.

Lisa Bluder

I think eighth grade is really the earliest. You can tell there's a special kid there at that young of an age.

Brian Hill

That's two in a row on the road after 16 straight losses. This season is not over until after game 82. That eighth spot is anybody's and is up for grabs now.

Dan Peitz

Like I've said before, I can't get to a mile and an eighth fast enough.

Becky Emrich

I was thrilled for them (after districts) because when they were in eighth grade, they had potential. Seeing that I had a small part in helping them reach that potential is special to me.

Eric Ligtenberg

I was happy with our eighth graders. They have never competed in a match like this. I am sure it was a little intimidating for them. It was a learning experience.

Abdullah Gul

Our friendly relationship of mutual understanding with the United States will go on, ... One should not limit it to a motion.

Becca Fitzpatrick

That's really eco-friendly of you," Vee told Marcie. "Recycling Nora's old trash.

Bob Johnson

We need someone who is taxpayer friendly and not just friendly.

Carl Rogers

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

Tom Jaffee

I think there is a lot to be said about first impressions, so making yourself look good and having a friendly greeting with somebody goes a long way.

Silke Stegemann

I think Engelhard is opening up to a friendly transaction.

George Bernard Shaw

It is only natural that a man should have established friendly relationship with the wives of his friends, but if he is wise he quits all ideas of sex out of the question.

Annika Sorenstam

I think I've become friendly with the golf course. I think with the rain, it totally softened the greens. And it seems like I play well when I can be more aggressive. ... It's kind of a ball-striking type of golf course, which I say is one of my strengths as well.

Atharva Veda

Grief is a friendly reminder, a good task-master; even a better teacher than joy.

Preston Sturges

Our gymnasium was remarkable and had more stuff in it than one could dream up in a nightmare. Furthermore, every boy had to use every piece of it during gymnasium class.

Benji Marshall

I just want to concentrate on my rehab and work hard in the gymnasium to strengthen the shoulder so I can get back as quickly as I can.

Donal Henahan

It will never be mistaken for a high school gymnasium or a meeting room in a Midwestern motel.

Larry Marshall

But they kept pouring in who knows how many. We had a gymnasium full.

Margaret Atwood

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.

Tony Buzan

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Sophie Hannah

All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.

Janine Turner

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

John Donne

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

Tao Lin

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

Charles Olson

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

Carl Sandburg

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Rudolph Penner

I think they're going to squeeze out all sorts of other spending items.

Penn Badgley

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

John Hurt

I've done all sorts of children's things before, but none as big as 'Harry Potter.'

Michael Leunig

In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists.

Jason Anderson

I know it's got a lot of sports fields. We're going to set all sorts of records.

Lou Mazzucchelli

There could be all sorts of other stuff, too.

Michelle Monaghan

I'm not so Hollywood; I live in New York, so it's very normal. I don't have many friends in the industry. My friends come from all sorts of different backgrounds and careers.

April Pearson

I'd quite like to try all sorts of different things, whether it be theatre, TV or film.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.

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.

Ryan Lynch

I think this will show the university that we are a responsible community.

Lars Mikkelsen

I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

Adolf Hitler

For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius.

Adam Ross

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

Margaret Garcia

We don't know. Mia didn't play soccer. She was a cheerleader all her life. She cheered for (the University of Colorado).

Vince Young

We're not going to be scared. We're going to be pumped. Nervousness is not a part of the University of Texas.

Earlon McWhorter

We're willing to look in the mirror, see what we see and do what we have to do to make this university better.

Dana Snyder

I graduated from the University of Whatever.

Ben Barnes

I actually went to university.