Famous Quotes & Sayings

Suzanne Fields

Unless they break through the brass ceiling of academia by writing best-selling books, like Harold Bloom or Alan Dershowitz, or go to Washington to make policy like Henry Kissinger, college professors can only aspire to limited public recognition.

Gene Luen Yang

In academia in general, there's this push toward using comics as an educational tool.

Jacque Fresco

Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range of interrelated connections within the physical sciences, but formal studies isolated each branch of science.” I feel that I have advantages greater than Da Vinci’s such as access to more information, materials, and methods.

Geoff Mulgan

As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.

Jim Webb

The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among political interest groups and in academia attempt to twist yesterday's America into a fantasy that might better service the political issues of today.

Pete Martinez

The LA Grid program represents IBM's commitment to building the next generation of technology talent across the U.S. and Latin America. The strong partnership between IBM and academia will play an important role creating jobs, driving innovative technology into the marketplace, and stimulating Florida's economy.

Mira Sorvino

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

Lauren Groff

It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little room for twelve hours a day, and so I wrote toward what I most longed for.

Robin Craig

Academia smarts is just part of it. You need people skills, everything from knowing how to interact to conducting meetings.

Dax Maier

I was just a little scared because, one, what if I miss it; two, what if I slip, I might fall into the river. And so I just kept on looking up and got directions, and then next thing you know I was on the gondola and they brought us down.

Chadd Moore

James brought him to me. I saw he wasn't paying no attention, so I just took a chance and stole the ball.

Keith Johnson

John brought it out front and I crashed the net. I was yelling for the puck and he got it over to me.

E. Hicks

John has brought a new level of professionalism to the Texas Rangers over the last four years. During his tenure the organization has improved on the field at the major league level while enhancing the minor league system.

Matt Williams

John has been brought in to learn about international preparation and at this stage it is just part of his development. But we would be looking for him to be knocking on the door of international selection in the near future.

Troy Glaus

J.P. has brought in pitchers and hitters to help out and that's just what we're going to try and do. We're going to try to put this team back to the level it's been before and the level it deserves to be.

Charles Sims

I think it's a big victory for Rosie. Who doesn't?, ... Rosie didn't want this fight. She wouldn't have brought this lawsuit if they didn't sue her (first). She just wanted to show that the claims were unjustified.

Robert Lewis

He led one public life ... but there was a second side, a hidden side to Henry J. Lyons, a side that caused him to be brought here to this seat,

Art Hogan

(Greenspan's) a proponent of what productivity gains have brought to this new economy, ... Of all the things he says, the least hawkish is when he talks about productivity and the new economy. In terms of Wall Street's reaction, I wouldn't say we could garner anything but a positive feeling.

Tommy Spina

He deeply regrets the circumstances which have led to him being charged with a criminal offense in our federal system.

E. O. Wilson

He'll be in charge of scouting and probably more involved in the operation of the club.

Bob Horodyski

He's always good for between 16 and 20 points, 10 to 15 rebounds, a couple of charges drawn and a couple of steals in the post. Every time out.

Marcus Dudley

I think the charges are appropriate for what his involvement was in the accident.

Karen Rambo

The people in charge of the program wanted to encourage kids to pursue math at the middle school level. And the competition is designed by engineers to fill a gap that they were seeing.

Thomas Ken

We talked about taking charges when she spins. Finally it happened at the perfect point in the game.

John Ashcroft

Today a U.S.-based charity that claims to do good works is charged with funding the works of evil,

David Soul

I went to Mexico to study social and political history during that really charged period in Mexican history in the early sixties, that I found my path in a way. It was a time when students wanted to take control of their own country, not just in Mexico but also in Europe and the United States.

Stanley Brand

He's going to face hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal expenses if he gets charged and decides to defend himself. It's hard to focus on that and focus on re-election.

Harlan Ellison

K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Victor Navasky

Kennedy used him to mediate on civil rights issues. Ramsey is seen these days as a very polarizing force. But, in fact, one of his talents is mediation and reconciliation.

Lawrence Wilkerson

Katrina gives us no confidence, ... I am 10 times more worried about what happens to civil liberties after that attack.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you.

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Jim Cooper

There is a growing unease, but all the folks I talked to support our troops, want us to win in the Middle East and still trust our military leaders to do the right thing. I think there's some skepticism of our civilian leaders.

Jaspher Ombati

It is not our intention to violate people's civil rights. Our intentions are noble -- to save people's lives.

Sarah MacLean

Gone are the days when heroes are emotionally locked away from the world until the end of the book, and thank goodness for that. Modern romance heroes are more complex than ever.

Chris Sisko

It comes down to the complex interplay of these larger-scale systems.

Larry Ellison

I think the applications space will be diverse and complex five years from now,

Paul Singer

Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system.

Gil Shwed

It had become a very long and complex process and we thought it was better to withdraw so we could focus on our customers.

W. Eugene Smith

My pictures are complex and so am I.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

David Marra

I love that they have such a grand vision but they can't underestimate the complexity of growing in the U.S. market.

Suriya

I had this inferiority complex as a child, as I was not good at speaking. I was also not good in studies or sports and would often flunk in four-five subjects.

David Brown

It takes a ton of labor to manage the enormous crops that Zin will throw, especially vines like ours that are only 16 years old.

Joe Newton

I wanted the flexibility to treat my crops as needed without waiting on someone else.

Tom Vilsack

As we move into a freer marketplace, it's incumbent upon us to show how crops can be used in a wider way,

Kelly Fero

This is a dilemma that always crops up with interest groups that too narrowly define themselves on one issue or another. Do they hold politicians to a standard of purity that ends up hurting them, the interest group? Do you let perfect be the enemy of the good? That is the dilemma they face.

Jaap Brakke

For many years the rain was pouring down and the crops failed. So first the people would start offering the gods food, and then tools and other things of value. When everything failed, the elders would decide to make the ultimate offering. There is no written history of what happened there, but what we do have is a record of human sacrifice.

Franklin P. Jones

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

Jane Rissler

Proponents of pharmaceutical crops have inflated the rewards and downplayed the risks.

Jeremy Rifkin

These new genetically engineered food crops are the first wave of a generation of 'Brave New World' foods that are going to have serious health and environmental repercussions,

Gregory Rodriguez

I've made it all my life, had some tough times and some good times, but I don't know how to make these (ends) meet, ... I thought in the spring I had one of the better crops around here and then overnight it took a different change.

Elizabeth Edwards

If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.

Paul Krell

I'm not going to get into dissecting election results or predicting the future.

J. G. Ballard

Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

Zoe Lister-Jones

GMOs are found in nearly 80% of processed food in the United States. Currently, up to 92% of U.S. corn is consumed what are you eating GMO with zoe lister-jonesgenetically engineered, as are 94% of soybeans and 94% of cotton. In short, they are everywhere.

Jose Saramago

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

Jerry Gray

The GM said, they're looking outside and that's the route they want to go. So I've got to go and get a job for myself.

Mark Cuban

The No. 1 job for a GM at a lot of places is not to win a championship, but to keep their jobs. That's not Avery. And that's not Donnie.

David Healy

A strike would be moot unless they waited until GM was back in production after the Flint strikes. If they went down now, who would care? It wouldn't mean anything.

David Healy

It's one of the reasons why GM will lose less money in 2006.

Gregg Klein

There was somewhat of a perfect storm helping GM today.

Edward Forbes

As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished , or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence.

Bill Gates

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

Sondhi Limthongkul

He is very arrogant, insulting other people and running the government as a one-man show. He is worse than a tyrant.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Najib Razak

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

P. J. O'Rourke

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

Umar Juoro

He runs things day by day. You can't run government like that.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Ernest Wamba

It comes at a time when the government pretends it wants dialogue, but instead it is killing people indiscriminately.

Will Rogers

I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.

Adam Ereli

He is an official and a representative of the government of Iraq.

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

Pete Boone

I think you weigh all of the issues together, including the interview. It still may be close, but you've got to have all of the components.

Gia Coppola

I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.

John Powell

We have tightened just as tight as we can go including the elimination of personnel,

Gary Roberts

I'd like to wipe out the whole month, including the hurricane.

Mark Trakh

They are going to be scary for a long time. And I'm including this year when I say that.

John Gregory

They are effectively going to get several minutes worth of return, not including promo time, for the supply of the goods.

Tom Izzo

That was a big game, including the way we won it.

Sushil Koirala

After the 1960 royal coup, I spent time in India - including three years in prison.

Irene Smith

There are no nuclear tests planned or desired.

Walter Kohn

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

Wendell Berry

The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.

Michael Scheuer

In this case, nuclear material, so by the end of 1996, it was clear that this was an organization unlike any other one we had ever seen.

Christopher Hill

Once they are back in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, with IAEA safeguards, at an appropriate time we will have discussions about the subject of the provision of a light-water nuclear reactor.

Nelson DeMille

I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.

P. J. O'Rourke

And, by the way, how come all the people who were so in favor of unilateral nuclear disarmament are so opposed to unilateral protection against nukes?

Joe Lieberman

The danger of terrorists and rogue states is compounded by the proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons.

Todd Simmons

We have never had a problem with the nuclear reactor and it has been here for 38 years.

Mark Landy

I would venture that we are now outside of gentlemanly territory,

Charles E. Wilson

We've been wearing sweaters and hats. We had plastic put over the windows outside too.

John Emerich

Resist your time - take a foothold outside it

Sam Harris

If you're out of school sick and you're sitting outside on the porch getting some air, that's one thing.

Siri Hustvedt

In sleep, we leave behind the sensory stimulation of the outside world.

Ian Harrington

I just tried to work the outside part of the plate and stuck with that today.

Amit Hazan

I like the strategy they're taking, which is to consolidate the smaller players outside the U.S. to become a stronger player,

John Zorn

We're not on the outside looking in, we're on the outside looking out.

Marie-Chantal Claire

It's so important to adapt, think outside the box, and stay ahead if you want to grow.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Judy Orihuela

He's been very cooperative. We've had no problems with him whatsoever so far.

Timothy Fisher

The range of a vehicle on one tank should be about the same as what we have today, 300 to 400 miles. And the fueling process should be about the same as what we're used to, it shouldn't take much more time than it takes today. And there are some serious problems with that.

Bob Bowlsby

I never would have taken the first step if I thought I was going to risk problems at Iowa. That was an important part of this process.

Christopher Hill

Clearly, they have some problems with the draft, but we have some problems as well.

Russell Crowe

If there are any problems and you do get up here and go on too long, ... Then 'hello' to my little friend.

Roberto Heras

I had no problems at all, the team had everything under control.

Roy Halladay

I had some time off to rest and haven't had any problems ever since then. It's kind of disappeared this winter so that's nice.

Jon Heacock

I know they are special team problems, but they are important ones.

John Carr

You could have problems you didn't think you would have.

Ron Messick

Lauren's so big as a player. A lot of schools are starting to take notice.

Mark Zupan

Students from his schools come out with real-world seasoning.

Mike Babineaux

They will be monitoring the schools throughout the week. They go in and use a form, similar to the one the state uses when it does its walk through.

Rick Page

Right now I don't think my 5A schools would go to the Valley. But they could put us with Laredo.

Anne Anderson

Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating,

Anthony Hamilton

It was very important for me to touch on things that haven't changed, like schools. I'm in Cleveland, Ohio. My lady's from Ohio, and the schools are being torn down, and they turned them into high-rise condos.

Richard P. Feynman

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

Richard P. Feynman

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Richard P. Feynman

Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.

Richard P. Feynman

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

Richard P. Feynman

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics. ... It requires imagination to think of what's possible, and then it requires an analysis back, checking to see whether it fits, whether its allowed, according to what's known, okay?

Richard P. Feynman

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.

Richard P. Feynman

It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.

Richard P. Feynman

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Richard P. Feynman

Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.

William J. Clinton

You don't have to be an elected official to be a public servant.

Winston Churchill

Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.

Publilius Syrus

He who fears his servants is less than a servant.

Oprah Winfrey

We are not servants of some God; we are 'our own gods?'

Dave Ramsey

Servant Leadership is the only #leadership that ultimately works.

Swami Vivekananda

He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant.

John Owen

Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.

Abdu'l Baha

We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the comfort of all that each member of humanity may pass his life in the utmost comfort and welfare. Then this material world will become the very paradise of the Kingdom this elemental earth will be in a heavenly state and all the servants of God will live in the utmost joy happiness and gladness. We must all strive and concentrate all our thoughts in order that such happiness may accrue to the world of humanity.

George Herbert

Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.

John Thaw

In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on.

Richard Greenfield

If there's a strategy there, I don't see it yet.

Michael Cohen

In many ways, this is a bet-the-company strategy for AMD.

Jack Welch

When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.

Greg McBride

It's really a wise strategy to do that -- to throw whatever you can at the balance.

Bob Defillippo

It's part of our strategy to diversify distribution.

Nicholas Negroponte

Scale will get you strategy.

Fred Wilson

The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.

Thomas Huxley

Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

Tony Robbins

It's not enough to have a strategy for success. Great strategy is available for free online for everything from career success to meeting Mr. or Ms. Right. You must also tell yourself the right story.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Eric Kristenson

It can be as much of a workout as you want it to be.

Tory Burch

I think you can have it all. You just have to know it's going to work.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Alan Siegel

I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.

Michael Osterholm

I think that potentially neuraminidase inhibitors may work if you are already on them as prophylaxis (prevention),

Kevin Hassett

I think it's the only way it works politically,