Dan Maskell Quotes

Lendl has remained throughout as calm as the proverbial iceberg.

Dan Maskell

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• The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Real
  • School
  • Kids

• I could never stand big-mouthed types. I had problems with that at high school. I’ve still got the scars on my fists from the teeth of the guys I hit so that they’d finally shut up. I came from England to Canada, of course, and was often ridiculed because I had a strange accent. I was expelled from school and it was a long time before I could control myself. But the impulse remained: a punch in the mouth to get some peace and quiet.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Mouth
  • Impulse
  • Punch

• Our defense has always been what's helped us turn things around throughout the year.

  

  Brian Baker Bad Religion
  • Defense
  • Turn
  • Helped

• I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Mind
  • Losing
  • Inside

• I'm fascinated with genetic science, and I have been for a very long time. I always look at science and technology because I think that the developments in my lifetime have been so remarkable - and we're only at the tip of the iceberg with projects like decoding the human genome.

  

  Nicholas James Bates Duran Duran
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Technology

• History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.

  

  Scott Anderson
  • Moments
  • Decision
  • Chance

• Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American in the South right up through World War II. And that was after killing three-quarters of a million people, destroying cities, and creating hostility that exists to this day over the the Confederate flag and the racism it symbolizes, all brewing out of bitterness over a war that didn't have to happen.

  

  David Swanson
  • American
  • Racism
  • Happen

• My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

  

  Rudolph A. Marcus
  • School
  • Home
  • Science

• I think that high school themes are replayed over and over throughout your life, and you try to pretend that it's a phase and that once you're out of high school it's over, but I don't think that's true.

  

  Michael J. Willett
  • School
  • True
  • Pretend

• The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp, low reef extending two or three hundred feet beneath the sea is formed. If a vessel should run on one of these reefs half her bottom might be torn away.

  

  Edward Smith
  • Sea
  • Iceberg
  • Drift

• I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life.

  

  Erik Hersman
  • Countries
  • Throughout
  • Sudan

• Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done it.

  

  Rene Auberjonois
  • Life
  • Character
  • Heroic

• In recent years, the choice of drugs on these reservations and throughout my district has been methamphetamines. It has destroyed the rule of law among the reservation people. It is killing our tribal youth in this country.

  

  Rick Renzi
  • Choice
  • Destroyed
  • Reservations

• My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Dad
  • Reason
  • Always

• We actually talked about Adam Sandler during the creation of 'Trolls,' because he does know how to time jokes.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Time
  • Jokes
  • Trolls

• They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Long
  • Children
  • Growing

• To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.

  

  John Milton
  • Fresh

• I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Born

• When scandal has new-minted an old lie, Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply, 'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appears Gathering around it with erected ears; A thousand names are toss'd into the crowd, Some whisper'd softly, and some twang'd aloud, Just as the sapience of an author's brain, Suggests it safe or dangerous to be plain.

  

  William Cowper
  • World
  • Brain
  • Lying

• A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Woman
  • Creature
  • Man Is

• I quickly found that the American church is a difficult place to fit in if you want to live out New Testament Christianity. The goals of American Christianity are often a nice marriage, children who don't swear, and good church attendance. Taking the words of Christ literally, and seriously, is rarely considered. That's for the 'radicals' who are 'unbalanced' and who go 'overboard.' Most of us want a balanced life we can control, that is safe, and that does not involve suffering.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Children
  • Nice
  • Church

• Lendl has remained throughout as calm as the proverbial iceberg.

  

  Dan Maskell
  • Iceberg
  • Remained
  • Throughout