An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
~By Russell Baker ~
My favourite sport is cheerleading!
~By Miley Cyrus ~
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
~By Muriel Spark ~
When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.
~By Tony Campolo ~
We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.
~By Gavin MacLeod ~
This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.
~By Chaka Fattah ~
Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you.
~By Osama bin Laden ~
Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.
~By Seth Godin ~
The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man.
~By Leigh Steinberg ~
At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
~By Larry Hovis ~
All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
~By Carlos Castaneda ~
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
~By John Ruskin ~
I kept the same suit for six years and the same dialogue. They just changed the title of the picture and the leading lady.
~By Robert Mitchum ~
This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.
~By Bob Graham ~
The German Air Force was not sufficient to protect the sea crossing on its own. While the leading part of the forces might have landed, there was the danger that they might be cut off from supplies and reinforcements.
~By Gerd von Rundstedt ~
The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.
~By Grace Napolitano ~
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
~By Edward Abbey ~
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
You know, I find it so difficult being a... as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did.
~By Werner Klemperer ~
A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
~By Andrew Coyle Bradley ~
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
~By Al Sharpton ~
The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
~By Neal Boortz ~
Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.
~By Ian Smith ~
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
~By Edward Steichen ~
A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.
~By Lorna Luft ~
The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
~By Xavier Becerra ~
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
I'm not a leading guy.
~By Steve Zahn ~
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.
~By Ralph Boston ~
Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
~By Jack Wagner ~
The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.
~By Edward Tufte ~
When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.
~By Kevin Costner ~
Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.
~By Ron Paul ~
The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide bombers who have killed innocent Israeli men, women, and children.
~By Jerry Costello ~
A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to what the ultimate payoff would be for that character.
~By Shawn Wayans ~
We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.
~By David Amram ~
An easy approach to the walls must be provided against: indeed they should be surrounded by uneven ground, and the roads leading to the gates should be winding and turn to the left from the gates.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~
It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness.
~By Steve Case ~
Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.
~By Kurt Masur ~
By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.
~By Simon Conway Morris ~
At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.
~By Karen Armstrong ~
Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.
~By Tea Leoni ~
There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.
~By Seth Godin ~
Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.
~By Donald L. Carcieri ~
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient.
~By Kevin Rollins ~
As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.
~By Maureen O'Hara ~
In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.
~By Gene Tierney ~
I'd love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he's a very private guy. Also, he's creating a new kind of sexy leading man. To me, his face is new and might be legendary someday.
~By Isaac Mizrahi ~
God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.
~By Raymond Holliwell ~
We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.
~By William H. Macy ~
Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
Well, mines was a sub machine gun. That was my personal weapon with being the first person in the patrol. I used to lead the patrol. Used to have a leading scout, a second scout and then the officer. The officer would be third. As I say, it was educational.
~By David Walker ~
Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.
~By Deng Xiaoping ~
In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
~By Barack Obama ~
Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.
~By Tim Holden ~
Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.
~By Mitt Romney ~
Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.
~By Paul Nurse ~
I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know, and I'm dealing with areas which we don't know about.
~By Rupert Sheldrake ~
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
~By Voltaire ~
Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War.
~By Mary Landrieu ~
I'm the leading scorer in the cup, and that's lovely, but don't forget this is also a great moment for the whole squad, when the two things coincide you can't ask for more.
~By Alessandro Del Piero ~
For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?
~By Christiane Amanpour ~
We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.
~By Christine Pelosi ~
Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.
~By Thomas Jane ~
In terms of worship, I think we ought to have the right people leading.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.
~By Charles Dance ~
Richard Burton rang me up once and said, Do you know you're my only leading lady I've never slept with? I said, Well, please don't tell everybody, it's the worst image.
~By Julie Andrews ~
Initially, the site was favourably reviewed in a leading new media publication and the word spread.
~By Benjamin Cohen ~
There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw.
~By Stephen Cambone ~
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
~By Colin Powell ~
There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.
~By Lion Feuchtwanger ~
Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn-around.
~By Pat Summerall ~
Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
I think one of my greatest gifts is leading worship.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.
~By Liza Minnelli ~
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
~By Fletcher Knebel ~
Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance of a large acreage of this crop, properly cared for, therefore, is obvious.
~By David F. Houston ~
On the issues that I care deeply about - the environment, Roe vs. Wade, the war in Iraq, with no weapons of mass destruction, the tax cuts that are now leading to deficits, I've got some deep issues with the president.
~By Lincoln Chafee ~
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
~By A. J. Liebling ~
It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
~By Ed Markey ~
Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that.
~By Ali A. Saleh ~
Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.
~By Bernard Ebbers ~
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
~By Anita Brookner ~
The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.
~By Joseph Needham ~
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
~By Douglas Adams ~
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
~By Walt Disney ~
I don't really like to talk specifically about customers by name - but we work with nearly all the leading manufacturers of consumer products worldwide and at quite a detailed engineering level.
~By David Milne ~
In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.
~By Anthony Michael Hall ~
I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see.
~By Josef Albers ~
Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
~By Alec Guinness ~
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