Barry W. Lynn Quotes

Ohio's students deserve a first-class education appropriate for the 21st century, not Sunday School lessons masquerading as science.

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• When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Impossible
  • Task

• I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Decision
  • Face
  • Consequences

• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Live
  • High

• If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Books
  • Television
  • Scared

• I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • People
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Actor

• Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Together
  • Faith

• We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Nothing
  • Because
  • Little

• Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Ideas

• I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Up
  • God
  • Man

• Women are made to be loved, not understood.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Made
  • Loved

• The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Changes
  • Opportunities

• Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Pretty
  • Show
  • Ever

• I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Up
  • Job
  • Know

• Mostly for social media, Twitter or Instagram becomes so much more fun when you can be boastful and say whatever you want. You can be so full of yourself and ridiculous when you're a heel.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Social Media

• I work in waves because I'm impatient. It has to be done. I take liberties.

  

  Cy Twombly
  • Work
  • Done
  • Waves

• I have always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Morning

• Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelfThan that I may not disappoint myself,That in my action I may soar as highAs I can now discern with this clear eye.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Great
  • God
  • May

• There's been way too much hyperbole. To get back to any good science you've got to get away from that and get back to the bench, ... I think the field is ripe for some young scientist who doesn't have any cemented views to come in and look at this and paint it with a brand-new brush.

  

  Alan Feduccia
  • Science
  • Views
  • Get Back

• I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

  

  Karen O
  • Anymore
  • Self-destructive

• I do I know not what, and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind. Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. What is decreed must be; and be this so.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • Eye
  • Fate

• At Guantanamo Bay, we could create a West Berlin, a free small city within the Communist nation that could trade freely with the U.S. and elect its own officials.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Free
  • Small
  • City

• Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Long
  • Beautiful

• Ohio's students deserve a first-class education appropriate for the 21st century, not Sunday School lessons masquerading as science.

  

  Barry W. Lynn
  • Science
  • Education
  • Students