Famous Quotes & Sayings

and City

Hasty Pudding is no small potatoes (sorry to mix the food references), known for its famous alumni and much-hyped annual awards ceremonies. One year Mel Gibson recited Hamlet and escaped from a straitjacket. Tom Cruise has strutted in a bra and stilettos. This year Sarah Jessica Parker gets the prize. A recent ... episode was about money woes. I wonder if there will be any jokes about dough this time!

Nicole Davis

I think it's great that UNCA tries to keep its alumni involved with campus life through the awards and all of the other events that we invite our alumni to attend.

Gerald Myers

I think as our alumni and fans have gotten to know Mike, they have come to appreciate him even more.

Bruce Sherman

It is most appropriate that the entrance to this beautiful facility ? a facility that was constructed at the request of students ? carry the name of the Alumni Society,

Sid Bernstein

I went to James Monroe High School, a big school in the East Bronx. My first promotion was the first alumni reunion dance. I got all the names and addresses out of the yearbook. It came off very well.

Gerald Parsky

We look for UC Merced's presence, its faculty, its research and its alumni to start an economic renaissance for the Valley.

Tim White

I am delighted that coach Erickson will be the head football coach at the University of Idaho. Our student-athletes deserve the opportunity to develop and play under the tutelage of a proven, seasoned and successful head coach. I was in leadership roles at Oregon State University during Dennis' renewal of the football program in Corvallis, and know first-hand of the positive impact he had on the entire fabric of the university, its alumni and supporters.

Dan Leibovitz

I am extremely impressed with the leadership and mission of the University of Hartford under President (Walt) Harrison. I'm joining the university at a time of tremendous growth and see it as an opportunity to build a successful basketball team with a winning tradition of which our students, alumni and community can be proud.

Ron Murphy

Right now, Purvis is hurt; he sprained an ankle in the alumni game.

Dave Craig

I was looking (but not seriously) for a building to expand my . . . book business. I saw this beautiful building for the first time. I peered through every window I could . . . It was love at first sight.

Laura Bush

I think it is one of the most beautiful Christmas trees I've ever seen.

Gwen Harris

Here it's raining, but when we go north for a meet it's sunny and beautiful and we're running well and jumping well and throwing well.

Granth Sahib

Haven't you heard the call from beyond, O beautiful soul-bride? You must go to your in-laws; you cannot stay with your parents forever.

Conrad Lautenbacher

Hawaii is in a very strategic location and unfortunately that strategic location brings a great deal of marine debris to the wonderful, beautiful shores that we treasure.

Joe Taslim

Having kids has been a turning point in my life because when I was still single, all I wanted was to impress beautiful girls.

Diego Maradona

He's a leader and is offering classes in beautiful football. He has something different to any other player in the world.

Bruce Iglauer

His truly beautiful voice and melodic, understated guitar style contrasted dramatically with the more rough and raucous blues and blues-rock that came before him.

Russell Crowe

He's gonna travel with me, ... A Beautiful Mind.

Danny Sheaffer

I would think it's a no-brainer you carry three catchers (in the playoffs). And there are no other catchers on the roster. Mike did a heck of a job defensively. ... Mike can be proud of the fact when he caught in the big leagues, the lead didn't diminish at all.

Jeff Davis

I wouldn't be surprised (if the rally continued next week), ... There's a lot of momentum that can carry into the coming weeks.

Ronnie Brown

I wouldn't be surprised if he called me later on this week and put some kind of wager out there as far as yards per carry or something.

Steve Bruce

Kenny Cunningham is in a similar position to Roy. He's good enough to carry on playing a few seasons. He doesn't drink or smoke and he's the first in to training every morning.

Dave Jones

I think it's a great idea. If you carry a weapon, you're going to use a weapon, that's as simple as it gets.

Dionny Reynolds

It ain't me no more. Just because I'm gone, it's still somebody out here that's going to carry the legacy. It's still going to be that one cat out here that's going to do it again. This ain't the last time this is going to happen.

Paul Nisbet

...He knows what he's doing. I think we'll just see a very good team being formed here that will carry on with what Debbie Hopkins started. We have a 'buy' on it. We feel that it was a good move to get this over with quickly. We've always had the utmost regard for Mike Sears.

Paul Bremer

He is virulently anti-Western and is particularly anti-American, ... and he has the resources to fund considerable anti-American or anti-Western activity. So he is a concern, because he's got a clear motive and he's got the means to carry out -- or to pay people to carry out -- attacks.

Naeem Khan

has confessed to carrying out bombings in Lahore, Kasur and Faisalabad.

Ken King

It made it one of the main entrances and really classy.

Kevin Smith

The longer version is still an exercise in futility. If you never liked that movie, the longer version won't make you like it any more. But fans want to see everything to be entranced in the world of the movie.

Pam Danziger

After proclaiming their entrance into the fashion world with the Vogue ad, this is a logical step for Wal-Mart.

Steve Mohyla

Sometimes you have to literally step over people meeting in the entrance hallway.

Yuval Steinitz

It would be a massive strategic blunder to sacrifice the entrance to Jerusalem and put it in the range of gunfire.

Wayne Wilkinson

This is probably one of the ugliest things I've ever seen. North Adams is working very hard to improve its entrance quarters, so this is important to the city.

Mark Foley

Entrance into the United States is not a guaranteed right.

Mel Pins

We wanted to beautify the entrance to our neighborhood.

David Albright

This new tunnel entrance is indicative of a new underground facility or the further expansion of the existing one.

Ryan Crocker

It is a 4.5-million-dollar facility and it is state of medical art.

Charise McHugh

We may not make it. They could wake up one morning and find that the facility is closed. We owe it to them to tell them that everything isn't hunky dory.

Ken Bacon

I'm not sure that the fact that the launch facility is primitive makes the missiles any less threatening.

M. Wolfe

I knew the Phoenix Theatre was going down, that's why I looked for another facility to direct, to do theater.

Bill Gerstenmaier

The (Michoud) facility is in pretty good shape. The question is, what does the workforce want to do?

Jim Davies

You could have a facility going in less than 18 months.

Carol Patterson

The goal is to have the facility paying for itself as far as operating costs, and it's looking more and more possible,

Abu Ghraib

No, it is not. I want that facility and Rick Sanchez said I can have any facility I want.

Sean Matheson

It just means that the full master facility plan is pushed back for at least one year.

Donna Norris

I would tell him the 'Bad Man' took her and did this to her. The name just kind of stuck.

Diaa Rashwan

Here in Egypt, his name doesn't represent anything for us.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Alice Cooper

He has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.

Richelle Mead

Your boyfriend and Micah will both be speechless." I unfastened my seatbelt. "That's the third time I've heard 'your boyfriend.' What's going on about that? Why won't anyone say Brayden's name?" Neither of them answered right away. Finally, Jill said sheepishly, "Because none of us can remember it." "Oh, come on! I'd expect that from Adrian but not you guys. It's not that weird of a name." "No," admitted Eddie. "But there's just something so...I don't know. Unmemorable about him. I'm glad he makes you happy, but I just start to tune out whenever he talks.

Richelle Mead

My name's Jet Steele.

Richelle Mead

The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant something serious was happening.

Umberto Eco

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

Rick Riordan

This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked.

Daniel Joseph

He had many requests to have someone end his life.

Kamisese Mara

I had a request today from Mr. Speight for him to come and see me,

Joe Solmonese

They said they'd take our requests under advisement.

Roger Boyd

They have not made that request ... if they do I am sure we would.

Bob Goin

no such request formally made so I don't know where that is.

Kenneth Blackwell

The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount.

Kim Brown

The only request is they make it healthy.

Debbie Breen

We've had so many requests for groceries. The groceries take up one-third of the store.

Tom Brown, Jr.

If we are going to allow somebody to request a recount, the intent obviously is that you expect a recount to be included.

Wally Lamb

I love the most the students with troubled lives.

Mila Kunis

I was actually a pretty good student. My problem was that I didn't know what I wanted to study.

James Remar

James Remar is a student of life.

Louis Menand

You have to have students wanting to take the courses, otherwise you're not going, they're not going to be very effective.

Eric Hoffer

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

Joel Klein

Just putting a computer in front of a student doesn't make education better.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

Renee Miller

All of the students, of all ages, participate in the plays.

Bill Proffitt

A lot of students thought they were real.