Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Lipton

I'll tell you why, I don't invite the ones I don't like.

Charles Vest

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

Charles Vest

We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.

Charles Vest

On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.

Charles Vest

We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.

Charles Vest

Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

William Lyon Phelps

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

William Lyon Phelps

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

William Lyon Phelps

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.

Hosni Mubarak

encouraging, balanced and gives hope for the peace process to move forward.

George Howard

If the track is clean, and the temperatures are low, we will run reasonably strongly, but warm-ups are never a great thing to go on. Never the less, the cars seem to be better balanced this morning and we have more grip, so that suits us. The changes we made were fairly minor and I am sure this has more to do with the track and the tyres working in the cooler conditions.

Kris Kalivas

That's the way it always is. We're a very balanced ball club and a very even ball club.

Mark Johnson

That was a close call, but it was the right one. There was never any doubt that (Byrd) won that match.

Brad Gushue

There will either be a lot a lot of sick days or a lot of TVs in offices. In Newfoundland, nothing has ever come close to this.

Alaina Huffman

I ultimately wanna do big movies, and I've been so close so many times. They keep giving my roles to girls with just a little more exposure than me.

Tom Jenkins

I've been playing some good golf for the last month and a half. I knew I was coming close to winning. My goal now is to win twice in a year, I've never done that.

Jason McCartney

I've been close a number of times here - to get so close and... I guess I was watching the wrong guy for the sprint. It was great riding with John. I wish it could have been just me and him for the sprint. I'm sorry I let the team down today - I know it's a big race for them. I'll just keep coming back next year.

Jeremy Nicholson

This is as close as the UK has got to a national gas emergency, where supplies would effectively be rationed to industry to keep supplies maintained to households.

Russ Cozart

This is a rebuilding year for us, but we have some very good wrestlers in our lineup and some who have struggled, but for us to win we have to wrestle well, like we have all year. Anything can happen in a dual, but we will have to win the matches where we are favored and stay close in the others.

Don Yeomans

This is a rare opportunity to watch a comet in its death throes ? from very close range.

Steve Smith

This is going to be a close one.

Jim Cook

Our direction from (supervisors) has been to facilitate the effort, and there lies why we are putting up $1.3 million.

Boyd Holbrook

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

Kristen Stewart

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

Chad Reed

This was a step in the right direction for me. I will take it any way I can get it. Something told me it was going to get ugly tonight.

Kevin McDonald

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

Alex Graves

Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my wings.

Patrick Warburton

Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.

Douglas Sirk

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

Tommy Lee Jones

I don't direct movies for a living.

Pras Michel

The record Clef and I did was just sitting there. So I said, Clef, I got a record, hit a verse on it. He just went in, messed around and ended up doing the hook too.

Dan Boone

We don't want others to get sucked into it and end up in the same trouble the original promoters ended up in.

Jon Groth

We ended today with some energy, which was good, because we're right back on the horse tomorrow.

Charbea Haller

We ended the season with 18 girls on three teams that gave it their all and wanted to play.

Bob Blake

We ended their winning streak. They may go off the next two years and win 100 in a row, but right now we ended that winning streak.

Derek Dougan

I think he ended up with about 75 pitches on the evening. He didn't say anything and I didn't say anything to him. I just let him keep going. He did a good job.

E. O. Wilson

I still think it was horrible that (Alberts) took it out of the public process, but we ended up getting pretty much everything we wanted.

Tom Kelly

I don't know where I would have ended up if it weren't for Kirby Puckett. He was not just a great ballplayer. He was a great friend. Everybody is taking it hard.

Arthur Smith

I couldn't really see the point of having lunch unless it started at one and ended a week later in Monte Carlo.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

Rich Olson

That took the wind out of our sails. It just made the hill a lot higher to climb.

Cheng Chin

At the moment, I don't see how this can be done at much higher temperatures.

Adam Sieminski

We should have an overall higher level of distillate product - This should give the industry a breather.

Adam Sieminski

We should have an overall higher level of distillate product -- This should give the industry a breather.

Herbert Hoover

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

Wesley Snipes

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

Robert Orben

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Douglas Adams

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.