Quotes by Gary Larson

“By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect Hungry”

“The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.”

“Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.”

“Unbeknownst to most historians, Einstein started down the road of professional basketball before an ankle injury diverted him to science”

“the threads that connect us to other living things. Newspapers will run a headline: Shark kills human. You never see a headline from the other perspective: Man swims in shark-infested water, forgets hes shark food. ”

“Its clear that as long as this demand continues, then charter schools will continue to thrive,”

“theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether theyre entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that are big, dramatic, beautiful and at eye-level.”

“Just be careful how you put it back down, or you can wipe out a population the size of Manhattan.”

“Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents,”

“When a charter school opens up, typically they are inundated with parents who wish to enroll their kids as well as with applications from public school teachers who wish to teach there, ... They have a tendency to grow very fast.”

“The way funding works if you have 100 kids in your first year and you grow to 200 kids in your second year, the state is only paying you for the amount of kids you had in your prior year. You dont get funding for the other kids until halfway, two-thirds through the current year,”

“Things can be low on the food chain, but that doesnt mean theyre lowly,”

“We did our best to oversee the property, but its an isolated site.”

“It obviously presents a concern. I think that the answer is for people to be very cautious about writing and communicating with anyone they dont know.”

“No one knows what the public school system is going to look like in 10 or 20 years, but we know its moving toward being more innovative, more cutting edge or more designed to meeting the needs of individual students.”

“We are going to fight this thing all the way. The district is breaking the law and its breaking its word to treat students who attend charter schools fairly.”

“Youre seeing a shift within the charter school movement. The first 10 years were about creating choices for parents. The second decade is a focus on identifying successful models and replicating them as quickly as possible.”

“We expect increased net sales and profitability for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006, when compared to the prior quarter. With our solid execution and the positive trends in our core business, we expect to close fiscal 2006 by reporting a significant increase in annual net sales over fiscal 2005. We also anticipate full-year profitability in 2006, which marks a dramatic improvement in our bottom line compared to the prior year.”

“It was an older building. It was in need of work. There are significant parking problems. We had the opportunity to move into a new building that was built according to state-of-the-art environmental standards.”

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