All Quotes

A tea set is good for a newborn girl. It is a gift that instantly makes the room a girl's room.
‐‐ Phoebe Cates

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
‐‐ Henry Adams

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
‐‐ Howard Nemerov

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.
‐‐ Bill Bowerman

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
‐‐ Gilbert Highet

A teacher should have a creative mind.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
‐‐ Thomas Szasz

A teacher told my mother that I would never become successful, which illustrates the difficulty of long-run forecasting on inadequate data.
‐‐ Clive Granger

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
‐‐ Horace Mann

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

A team championship doesn't happen because three people score 10s, it happens because all the guys score well. In my opinion, everyone deserved 10s, we're all 10s on this team.
‐‐ Mitch Gaylord

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
‐‐ Michael Winner

A team is a group of young men playing together. The program is the entirety of that.
‐‐ Kirby Smart

A team is a team.
‐‐ Jamal Lewis

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.
‐‐ Dan Devine

A team is supported by the community, and a team must support its community.
‐‐ Jerry Reinsdorf

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
‐‐ Mickey Mantle

A team may have some great players, but typically, the team that works best together does the best. I look at running Broadcom in the same way. We have a culture where people have different skill sets, but they are happy to leverage their skills to help others and to help the company.
‐‐ Henry Samueli

A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing.
‐‐ Donovan Bailey

A team takes on the personality of the head coach.
‐‐ Ricky Williams

A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.
‐‐ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

A team will take on its manager's personality. If it's a laid back manager, you'll have a laid back personality. The players will see that if it's OK for the Manager to be laid back, then you'll have a laid back team.
‐‐ Pete Rose

A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
‐‐ Rabih Alameddine

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.
‐‐ Charles R. Swindoll

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
‐‐ Heywood Broun

A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.
‐‐ Garrett Hardin

A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.
‐‐ Stanley Smith Stevens

A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.
‐‐ Francis Collins

A teenager has to decide what they're going to do with their life, and that's one of the most important decisions that you'll make.
‐‐ Amy Heckerling

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.
‐‐ Christian Bale

A telemarketer has as much right to force people to listen to a sales pitch as a door-to-door salesman has to force himself into a home.
‐‐ Julie Ann Dawson

A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone.
‐‐ Craig Kilborn

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
‐‐ Fred Allen

A television chat show is light entertainment, so it is trivial by its very nature. It is hardly the place to get people to reveal their innermost thoughts. Then it becomes sensationalism, and you lower yourself to the level of the popular newspapers.
‐‐ Terry Wogan

A ten-times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries would enable so many other moonshots, if we can find a great idea. We just haven't found one yet.
‐‐ Astro Teller

A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.
‐‐ Robert Rainy

A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.
‐‐ Natalie Massenet

A tendency to make metaphorical connections is an occupational hazard for those of us who write.
‐‐ Alice McDermott

A tenth of Dostoyevsky is plenty for a seventh grader, I think.
‐‐ Cathleen Schine

A terminal diagnosis can really mess with your head. Honestly, it makes you want to run away to the moon. Many ALS patients want to fade away quietly. This was not for me.
‐‐ Steve Gleason

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
‐‐ John Lothrop Motley

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.
‐‐ Norman MacCaig

A terrific exercise is to take a paragraph of someone's writing who has a really strong style, and using their structure, substitute your own words for theirs, and see how they achieved their effects.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it.
‐‐ Pedro Pierluisi

A terrorist is one who kills innocents for the pursuit of a political aim.
‐‐ Richard Armitage

A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission.
‐‐ Virginia Foxx

A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.
‐‐ John Bruton

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
‐‐ Abraham Joshua Heschel

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
‐‐ Simone Weil