(933 quotes found)
“Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.”
Charles Handy
“If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.”
Will Rogers
“Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window? The guy looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait. I guess that's like a regular window. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)”
Jack Handy
“Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire”
Dale Carnegie
“See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.”
Robert Collier
“Instead of studying for finals, what about just going to the Bahamas and catching some rays? Maybe you'll flunk, but you might have flunked anyway; that's my point.”
“If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice." Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.”
“Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services”
Henry Ford
“It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.”
Mary Pickford
“If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would it go with the beat of your heart?....”
Elijah Wood
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