Ezra Stiles Quotes

Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.

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• Actors are always the last to see what they have created.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Always
  • See
  • Last

• Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • Why
  • Friends
  • Crazy

• Learning is always great!

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Great
  • Learning
  • Always

• I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Think
  • Ridiculous
  • Tax

• To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Truth
  • Beauty
  • Creative

• The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Children
  • Knowledge
  • Joy

• I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Love
  • Summer
  • Spring

• I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.

  

  William Trevor
  • People
  • Writing
  • Company

• Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Men
  • Poetry
  • Poet

• Your job, as a head coach and general manager, is to listen and not bypass any opportunity to help your team improve.

  

  Josh McDaniels
  • Help
  • Opportunity
  • Coach

• Bankruptcy is a serious decision that people have to make.

  

  Herb Kohl
  • Decision
  • Serious

• Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Star

• The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Believe
  • Speak
  • Soccer

• Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Happy
  • Silly
  • Fools

• Through our perceptual systems, we represent our surroundings, aiming to do so accurately, where the aiming is functional or teleological, rather than intentional. And the same goes for our functional beliefs. Through our judgments, however, we do intentionally, even consciously, attempt to get it right.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Beliefs
  • Represent
  • Surroundings

• For 10 years, I had a band called Steel Train. We made three albums. We toured like crazy.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Band
  • Crazy
  • Three

• We've taken what was just once a racetrack and made it a multifaceted gaming destination for the entire region.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Taken
  • Made
  • Destination

• I am really excited about going out there and playing with some of the guys from different regions and playing with the best. Just the opportunity to represent the Academy in hockey and our league is just awesome.

  

  Brad Roberts Crash Test Dummies
  • Opportunity
  • Playing
  • Hockey

• I began by playing for the biggest club in the Lorraine region, went on to the biggest club in France and ended up with the biggest in the world.

  

  Michel Platini
  • World
  • France
  • Clubs

• Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.

  

  Ezra Stiles
  • Regions
  • Indians
  • Tropical