To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

Voltaire

I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

JoBeth Williams

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

Jennifer Garner

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

Gregory Bateson

I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

Gabrielle Union

We are indeeed being led to a pit, as it was written

James Dye

Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vurnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kick them there and they curled up like snails. Caress them there and their brains melted.

Stephen King

It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.

Elliott Smith

I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

Henry Rollins

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

Jack Kemp

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

Arthur C. Clarke