Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanis Varoufakis

Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Wendy Kopp

Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges.

Vivek Wadhwa

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.

Clay Shirky

I certainly never intended for myself an academic career and, were the academy to suffer, I'd just go do something else. I don't have a commitment to it or to really, frankly, almost any institution that assumes that it has to be stable forever.

Vladimir Prelog

The close of my studies with a degree of a Dr. Ing. in 1929 coincided with the great economic crisis, and I was not able to find an academic position. I was therefore very grateful for a position in the newly created laboratory of G.J. Driza in Prague where rare chemicals were produced on small scale.

Natasha Trethewey

I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought.

Randy Pausch

There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

David Lawson

The academic quality of the university exceeds its reputation around the world.

Ian Mckellen

The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.

William R. Keating

I hope that the residents of my current district - from Quincy to Provincetown and the Islands - know that their well-being is my primary concern and nothing changes that.

Ellen Key

The current of emotion, which was formerly directed to gaining eternal bliss, is turned in socialism - in the same degree as the latter is permeated by evolutionism - towards the perfecting of earthly life.

Bob Stimson

The overwhelming empirical evidence of current residence of retirement villages is that they don't go in at early ages. The majority go in middle-to-late 70s.

Louis Font

The Pentagon has instituted this policy to say to the current troops that if you go AWOL you will be hunted down to the grave.

Dennis Ross

If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister - who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll - and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party.

J. C. Watts

The $54 price objective represents 17 times 2002 estimated revenue. The stock currently trades at 28 times 2001 revenue, implying a multiple contraction.

John Harmer

We have a major problem with the current engine.

Phil Smith

We could get pulled over for speeding and pay more than that. The problem with the current laws is enforcement.

Beeban Kidron

We think that there is this terrible idea that the kids are digital natives... and they know what they're doing, but all the evidence says that they're hanging around going, 'Where are you, I'm here, can I post my picture?' They're not actually writing wikis; they're not actually listening to great poets live.

Chris Crutcher

As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it.

Scott Coffey

That was the strongest evidence in the case.

Russell Smith

I went to Queen's - a fine university with the proudly stupidest frosh week in the country. This was, when I was there, supposed to be somehow evidence of a higher social class.

Bob Stott

We had only circumstantial evidence tying him to the bombs. And our circumstantial evidence wasn't that good.

Tom Davies

We have to move ahead, ... There is evidence that dries up after a while.

Jay Greene

Virtually all evidence produces controversy. If it matters, it produces controversy.

Bill Schultz

Why would she have done such a thing if she knew what she was doing. She never did anything else wrong. There's no evidence she had anything to gain.

Seth Shostak

We haven't yet found a speck of evidence for biology on another world, so we have no objective way to judge whether life is a onetime fluke or a near-inevitable phenomenon.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

Charles R. Swindoll

Go God's way! His is the most reliable route to follow when life gets complicated. It will have its tough moments, but you will never regret it.

B. F. Skinner

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.

David Brooks

I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you'll settle it by flipping a coin. But don't go by how the coin flips; go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails?

David Brooks

The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.

Aaron Sorkin

It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

Aaron Sorkin

Make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You're a group of incredibly, well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You're barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they're a-coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

Iris Johansen

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

Siti Supari

The polio virus that hit Indonesia has been proven to have a high rate of attack,

David Kennedy

The overall picture is of an operator aggressively maintaining its market position in a highly competitive market, and sacrificing margin to do it.

Mike Vrabel

The Patriots have sort of become the measuring stick in the NFL, but that stick isn't very high right now.

David H. Murdock

Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

Neil Peart

You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.

Rand Paul

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Marcelo Porto

The political scene has improved in a big way.

Gerry Murphy

The academies have tremendously improved training for young players.

Karl Hobbs

That we had improved from last year. The program is improving every year, and that was an indication that we had improved it. This year, we improved our status.

Maurice Cheeks

We've got some young players that played well last year and I want to see if they've improved this year,

Dorothy Lakner

The quality of the merchandise has improved and...the service levels are very high.

Jim Oberdorf

I think she is great. She has improved a thousand percent.

Richard C. Armitage

I think my fighting skills have certainly been improved by working with Peter Jackson.

Sherri LeCompte

We can put them on conditioning and strengthening programs that are going to make them a better pitcher in conjunction with their improved techniques.

David Milne

We have substantially improved our position in Japan which now represents a major part of our business.

Nancy Pelosi

Just because he says things are improving there, doesn't make it so.

Jean Turner

We all need good, vital, improving schools; we're all in this together.

Aubrey Taylor

I have been improving every meet. I want to keep improving.

Ron Hutchins

He kept his cool. He played percentage tennis and that's what we've been working on. I think he's going to be a leader for us one of these days. He's improving daily.

Catherine Booth

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

Tom Hall

The people who don't know about him will know by year's end. He's the total package. He's big, he's strong, he's quick, he's aggressive. Nothing but upside to him. He's a kid who I think will be big-time if he keeps working and improving every week.

James Barnes

With this investment, we are improving the quality and safety of the rail and preventing rail defects.

Houston Nutt

We're going to have to be ready. Not only running the football, we need to keep improving our passing game. Our receivers are going to have to be ready. I just think everybody, tight ends, backs, you can't be one dimensional in this league.

David Marsh

This was a strong day for us, so we should have scored a lot of points. We did, and I am very pleased with that. We will have to keep improving from here.

Mortimer Adler

Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.

Carrie Underwood

I consider myself not a celebrity. I'm a normal person that likes [doing] things on stage.

Carrie Underwood

It's hard to find normal celebrities.

Ashley Tisdale

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

David Wluka

The accelerated sales pace of recent years has all but ended, and we're returning to a more normal market.

Brent Frank

We have always welcomed opportunities to partner with other jurisdictions and other organizations to have a presence in other parts of the Commonwealth. We would never turn down the opportunity to talk about how we can partner with somebody to have a presence in any jurisdiction from Southwest all the way to Northern Virginia.

Horst Keller

We can see there is a swirl here that is similar to the one we know from the north pole.

Menachem Begin

There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened anymore.

Preston Brooks

They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them.

Bridgett Williams

The policy they got is just a policy. The students are running the show.

John Whiting

The policy says any new schools being built,

Gideon Ezra

The policy of restraint is over. This is a law-abiding country, and that is how everyone has to behave.

Tessa Jowell

The policy is not wrong and... time will prove it right,

Gary Orfield

The policy is essentially a product of negotiation, of power and discretion, not law.

Chris Zimmerman

We're working on what the specific policy would be.

William Shakespeare

Policy sits above conscience.

Condoleezza Rice

We recognize any policy will sometimes result in errors, and when it happens, we will do everything we can to rectify it.

Lee Fuller

Having a clear, stable royalty policy was of value to independent producers.

Kirstie Alley

I've been irresponsible many, many, many times and that has resulted in my being fat.

Don Stewart

That resulted in the seizure of some documentation.

Bikram Choudhury

Do you know, every yoga school in India is free?

V. S. Naipaul

At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

C. S. Lewis

What do they teach them at these schools?

Cathy Rigby

In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material.

Carrie Preston

Everyone thinks they went to high school with me. I take it as a compliment that I look different in every role.

Carrie Brownstein

Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here are the structures that help make me whole." Family, or school, or the city I live in. When those structures are dysfunctional or decaying, you end up kind of Frankensteining pieces from everywhere in order to make yourself sated and comfortable and alive.

Carrie Underwood

I did most of my volunteer work when I was in college because I knew of more ways to get involved. In high school, we'd do things like, there was a homeless shelter near our hometown and our church group decorated one of the rooms. In college, I was in a sorority, and we did a lot of things, like pick up trash on the highway.

Carrie Underwood

I'm about the only person in my family that's made it to 24 without being married. That's the way it works where I'm from. Most people, if you find someone to marry in high school, you do that, and if you don't find that, then you find someone in college.

Bill Burr

I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.

William Mezger

Most of them are students and don't work at other times of the year.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Human reproduction can be a sticky subject—” “Ewww!” groaned a chorus of students

MaryEllen Elia

We have a way to go with our 12th-grade students.

Brian O'Reilly

We don't want to penalize students for something that was not their fault.

John Boyles

I have a vision for the way students can be represented.

Steve Ferguson

What we want to do is make sure that students who come to Bloomington are already prepared.

Kenny Perry

He's a tremendous kid, a tremendous student of the game,

Becky Lofstead

He was a 4-point student from what I understand. Just an outstanding student.

Kevin Knight

I'd like to see every student be a part of their school, whether they are in sports, band, drama, or any other ac-tivity,