Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Morse

This isn't being published for the academic community, albeit the academic community is keenly interested in it. From a student and parents' perspective, to know the relative peer standings of a school is important.

Mike Bohn

The University of Colorado is a gold mine ... and we're going to work our tail off to bring a great coach to this program to match the academic standing of this institution. That will be my sole focus.

Daniel J. Bernstein

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

Tony Brown

I have always been a firm believer in participation so there were no cuts. We practiced three times a week but if a student had an academic conflict, academics took priority.

Dan Perrin

Much of education is out of touch with the value of practical experience compared to academic experience when it comes to technical trainer positions. When I spoke to ASE about this, I used our newsletter as an example. It had seven ads in it for automotive faculty and six out of the seven required at least a bachelor's degree. In reality, when it comes to automotive degrees, an associate's degree is pretty much the routine degree that technicians would secure.

Richard Giannini

Jeff and I recently had several very productive discussions about our football program and its future. Our goals for the program are the same, continue to operate with a high regard for integrity and academic accomplishment, as well as reaffirming our spot as champions of Conference USA and contend for a BCS bowl. We will work together to ensure those goals are accomplished.

George J. Mitchell

Stanford. It's a pretty good university, and everyone seems to like their academic stores.

Chris Patterson

Texas' current retention policy has not demonstrated any evidence of improving student success. It has not materially improved our high school graduation rate, nor has retention resulted in improved academic proficiency of graduates.

Gloria Davis

Winners are candidates (who) have the strongest record of academic accomplishments and the biggest potential for college.

Jeff Foster

That's no excuse. Young and athletic is a positive for them, but then there's young and inexperienced for them. If we're not as athletic as them, we have to beat them with experience; and obviously we didn't do that.

Marc Ganis

That myth has been broken long ago, ... Everyone who follows the Olympics knows commercialism and corporate sponsorship is as much a part of the Olympics at this point as athletic competition. It is simply aesthetics, it is simply a veneer.

Alec Gunn

Brian is an all-around athlete. He can really haul. He's one of those guys that you've just got to let them stay in the game and get their rhythm, and he did that, I think.

Kevin Logsdon

Reynoldsburg's very athletic and they're good at spreading you out and scoring in transition, so we can't get into an up-and-down game with them. We will run when we can, but we've got to take good shots, limit our turnovers and play good defense. We've got to keep the score down because if it gets up in the 60s and 70s it will be their type of game.

Steve Zeller

Ricky showed a lot of heart and refused to give up on that play. He's a lot faster and more athletic than most people realize.

Floyd Keith

My sense is that the efforts being made by athletic directors (to interview and hire black candidates) have been more timely and complete. There is an improvement. ... But at the end of the day you have to be objective and measure this in wins and losses, and that's a bittersweet perspective. Hiring two coaches and increasing your total 66% just underscores how much distance we have to go.

Jim Calhoun

My understanding is the athletic director is going to now, hopefully, put it on the front burner this year. In my personal opinion, they were going to fix football before they fixed basketball. I know a couple of the people are basketball people who gave money to football and that's fine. They gave money to the university.

John Andreoli

Nick's very athletic and gives us an imposing presence coming off the edge. Greg will be solid for us on the strong side.

Rodney Knox

Nike celebrates the athletic achievements of our elite competitors. Kobe's inclusion in marketing and promotional material is an acknowledgement of his elevated level of sports performance.

Q'orianka Kilcher

I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.

Jason Clarke

I was a designer at the University of Louisville taking classes (in the early 1990s) and working there and the Web happened. I was interested enough (in the Internet) to pursue it and learn about it. It was at a time that there was no education about Web design and Web development.

Laura Harper

I haven't made my schedule yet for next semester, but whatever classes 'Lang' is taking I am taking. She is very, very smart and she motivates me in the classroom and forces me to work harder. I like that.

Jerry Paul

It's highly unusual when a company combines two share classes into one.

Ric Flair

Girls, you can't be the first, but you can be next.

Frank Oz

Girls and sports. That was the interest, mainly. I never wanted to be a puppeteer.

Karen Falana

I would say 75 percent of my girls go on to college. And I would say 90 percent of that group goes on to play rugby in college.

Jim Clarke

She's had a very big impact on the team. The girls all look up to her. They all respect her. When she talks, they listen. ... She's having a positive impact on the younger players in the program.

Kathy McCartney

She does yeoman work all the time. The kid?s 5-foot-8 but she plays 6-foot-something girls every day.

Becky Cleary

Six girls are doing pretty well. It will be super exciting.

Tim Haskins

Gorham made us work hard. We worked hard for the three goals that we got. The girls were persistent and stuck with it.

Aidan Quinn

I'd sneak out of the house to meet girls at 3:30 a.m.

Alison Davis

I am very proud of the girls. They were tougher to match up offensively because of the height inside.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Jim Tressel

Antonio showed a lot of burst. I thought this was a good step for him.

Bob Combs

A number of sites have been mentioned inside the PGA Tour, and Harding would be on that list. Harding has proven itself to be a good venue for unique, significant events.

Robert Sellar

Any M&A on this scale is good news for the market. Consolidation is needed in the telecoms industry and premiums increase investor sentiment.

Kate Warne

Any little signal like this can lead people to sell first and to think about it later ... and it's partially a response to nervousness over whether the good times can continue,

Proverb Proverbs

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

Tom Mashek

We wanted to be aggressive. We can't sit back and let things happen. I really liked our aggressiveness. We really went after it.

Ann Richards

I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.

Terry Stotts

I really liked the way we competed in the second half. With Michael and Mo out, I was really proud of the way our team competed.

B.o.B

I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.

Bob Storman

Now he can mobilize the 'Z Team' to support other candidates.

John Milton

His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle.

Kevin Watkins

We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making central to his summit speech that he wants to abolish all export subsidies. It is up to him to push the European Union in that direction, and the U.S. needs to reciprocate.

Marianne Williamson

Family... a group experience of love and support.

J. Reuben Clark

May the Lord be with us at all times, under all circumstances; may he bring into our lives a burning desire to uphold the Constitution, a living faith in its inspired origin, that we may always be found among those who shall support it to the last breath.

Mandi Lyon

I'm very overwhelmed, but very thankful for all the support.

Waris Ahluwalia

Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.

Carly Fiorina

China is a rising adversary. So one of the things we have to do if we want China's support is to push back on China.

Moby

There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can.