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.

Hines Ward

That was a rocket. I made an adjustment on my route. He had to make an adjustment and somehow he got the ball to me. That was amazing.

Ted LePage

We know the defense had to play hard because we were going with two different quarterbacks. We needed them to step up, and we're pleased with their effort, especially against a set we haven't seen. It was a great adjustment by our kids.

Jamaal Magloire

We just didn't play defense. The young players still don't grasp what it is like to play consistently. It's going to be an adjustment period before we get it together, but I think we're going to be OK.

Lawrence Summers

We believe the global expansion needs to be balanced up, not balanced down, ... An adjustment should take place in our countries through increased public savings. Internationally, there needs to be an adjustment through an increase in exports rather than reduced imports.

Roy Halladay

Today was a lot better. It's good to get a couple of innings and then to come in and talk it over between innings and to go back out and make an adjustment or two. For the most part, we're real close.

O. J. Simpson

Today there was a little bit of position adjustment from yesterday, with very little flows going through.

Wayne Wagner

We've got some very offensive-minded personnel and we've tried to make this attitude adjustment toward defense. I think that's helping us now.

Joe Schwarz

We have to look at the wherewithal to get the job done, and you can't do it with smoke and mirrors, ... It may require some adjustment of the tax structure - that's just being honest.

David Dellucci

We're used to playing on a consistent basis, and it's a hard adjustment to make mentally and physically. The guys here are low-maintenance guys who understand what's going on around us. That doesn't make it easier, but we're not going to gripe about it. We're still going to be great teammates, but it's tough to swallow.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.

Tony Crescenzi

The pending home sales data feed right into the hands of those who expect the Fed to end its interest-rate hikes.

Carl Sagan

[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea. I'm very fond of it. It's done you no harm. Please don't attack it." That's not the way it goes. The hard but just rule is that if the ideas don't work, you must throw them away. Don't waste any neurons on what doesn't work. Devote those neurons to new ideas that better explain the data. Valid criticism is doing you a favor.

Carl Sagan

With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.

Antoine Lavoisier

Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies.

James Niosi

We've got some pretty heavy data this week and I know people are holding off a little bit.

Bob McMurray

We've made it hard for ourselves because we didn't perform as well as we should have. Our engineers are digesting data now and will be discussing options well into the night I would think.

Mark Rosenker

We have to look at the event data recorder in more detail.

David Rosenberg

With the exception of the backward-looking Q4 GDP report, the data released today surprised to the downside.

Colin Morgan

The fantasy genre is so in at the moment. Viewers want to escape from their lives and watch something that is so separate from their everyday existence. People have always wanted to escape their lives - that's why they go to movies and the theatre.

Ninon de

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

Proverb Proverb

That which is escaped now is pain to come.

John Gay

Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outliv'd the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill

S. Hughes

It escapes all logic. We aren't able to understand all things. It is a matter of faith ... to trust that God is in control.

Herta Kluge

We escaped the snow. My husband was sick and tired of shoveling the snow.

Jean Fontaine

Thus oft a struggle to escape - But lands us in a still worse scrape

Alex Hernandez

But at the same time, I realize how lucky we were to escape with a tie. John made some big-time saves or else we would have been 0-1.

Lorene Scafaria

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

Yanni

With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

Tina Brown

No one has put in harder training to become a royal bride than the glossy-haired Kate Middleton.

Isabella Bird

Unlike many other places, Hilo is more fascinating on closer acquaintance - so fascinating that it is hard to write about it in plain prose.

Gail Carson Levine

Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

Virginia Postrel

A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.

Yayoi Kusama

I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

Chet Faker

I always try to work hard and get things done as soon as possible, but never at the loss of quality of the product.

Tina Brown

No one has put in harder training to become a royal bride than the glossy-haired Kate Middleton.

Frank Caliendo

With Twitter, it's a little harder to tell jokes that somebody hasn't heard already. You have all these people out there sharing their opinions and telling jokes in real time, and by the time you get on, somebody's already done some version of what you're trying to do.

Chris Lemerise

We have to work harder when we get those (power play) chances.

Angela Griffin

We have to work harder to show distinction.

Dan Waterman

We just didn't play hard, it's as simple as that. They worked harder than we did.

Jerry Daugherty

We have three solid scoring threats now. It's a lot harder for defenses to key on only one of our players.

Mark Schmidt

We were slow, sluggish. It was like we didn't have our legs. It was like the harder you try, the harder you play, the worse it gets. It wasn't smooth.

Kerry Smith

Using a shovel that is too tall or too short for you only makes working with that particular tool harder on you.

Patricia Richardson

I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.

Clive Thompson

No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer.

Peter Kellogg

The only real blemish in the quarter has been the royalty situation, which will improve over the rest of the year,

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.

Jim Hofher

We need to improve on offense. We're 0 for the season right now in terms of scoring.

John Bryan

We have traditionally had inspectors who really know a lot about the business. They seem to be getting the job done. And while we've seen some improvement in permits, we're still a long way from where we should be.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

If Indonesia improves governance of the fisheries sector and invests in large-scale maritime transport, it can double fish production by 2019.

Mark Morehouse

Tyler is an all-around kind of guy. This year we are just going to try and improve on what we did last year and get some kids to state.

Victoria Strauss

Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.

Herman Edwards

That was something that might not have been as special to him as it was to all of us, he's not that kind of guy. He's about the team, that's what makes him so unique.

Brad Johnson

Most communities will not have any trouble by 2008, but 2013 might be a little tougher.

Thomas Reid

might not be an appropriate place for him to stay.

Chuck Smith

Might be guilty' isn't enough. 'Possibly guilty' isn't enough. 'Probably guilty' isn't enough.

Eliot Spitzer

Who might or might not be my opponent on the other side of the aisle, I'll just wait and see how it plays out,

Eliot Spitzer

who might not understand the ways of Wall Street.

Kweisi Mfume

who might not like what we have to say.

Chris Morrison

Who knows? You don't know who you might draw.

Mike Sherman

We have a long way to go. The penalty situation is inexcusable, and that comes back to me, as I told the players, but I put it on them right now because we have to get that worked out. That will not work this season if we have that many penalties. Playing stupid like that does not bode well.

Jarome Iginla

I thought it was going to be a penalty shot. I was upset with the whole play.

Mark Tate

I think it's a skill to be able to take a penalty kick. There's a lot of pressure to step up there and take that shot.

Richard Matvichuk

We've got to play better and stay out of the penalty box.

Don Waddell

I always say the players pick this team, not us. You can't have a team of 12 first-line NHL players. You need role players, checkers, penalty killers. You can't just take the 12 most skilled forwards.

Andy Jackson

He got a penalty already. That is sufficient.

Muriel Rukeyser

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.

Luiz Scolari

Was I the only one who saw a penalty on Nuno Gomes? Didn't you see that?

Mary Wilson Little

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Steve Long

We wanted to have a place where our practices were together.

Philip Morris

merchandising practices at the wholesale and retail levels.

John Hawkins

Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation.

Mike Price

Those were spectacular catches. I want to see him out at 15 practices this spring, every one of them, all the way through. Then I'll tell you (where he stands). He showed what he can do. But he can't do that if he's sitting on the sidelines.

Kelly Herndon

We're just taking it step by step right now. I've got to see how I feel in practices and then how I feel for the game.

Mike Goforth

It's one of the two or three worst spring practices (for injuries) I can remember.

Gary Gray

It's sort of a research update. We give growers an update of what practices seem to be most beneficial.

Gary Barnett

This team is getting better. I'm pretty pleased. . . . We've got 10-11 practices left, but I'm satisfied with where we are.

David Thomas

Every year we've come to California, it's been raining. But we get all our practices in, and it's been fun.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.

Errole Rembert

We'll play the j.v. and they play the varsity. Rather than get destroyed, we get (our kids) to play the right way.

Mary Hansen

Most of them do walk rather than take the bus.

Joker Phillips

It didn't take long for me to say yes. Once we started talking, he said that we had been on the up and up with him and that he'd rather come here.

Michael Long

I think I would rather that he didn't run.

Zana Marjanovic

The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

Terry Bradshaw

I will tell you what I feel, right or wrong. I don't want to do it. I would rather make you laugh. But that's my job. I did it. Archie's mad. I understand.

Tanith Belbin

We'd rather it be here than at the Olympics. So in that respect, it's good.

David Chaney

We'd rather her be here, even if she does win all the time.

Jerry Kelly

Just play well and the scores will come. I showed that today.

Alain Vigneault

Three wins by 1-0 scores -- obviously, our goaltending has been solid.

Chris Nelson

That's the way we've been all year. Every time someone scores on us, we score right back.

Ed Cange

One night, somebody scores a lot, then another (night), it's someone else. That's our bedrock. It's a team concept.

Josh Beckett

Right now it's going to come down to whoever scores more runs, because the starters aren't going to be out there as long,

Amy Williams

It's not right when we have teachers that are fudging on the test scores because they want to look good.

Phil Mason

We would have been up by two scores had we scored on that drive.

Sue Olds

Our API scores give us the idea that we're on the right path.

Tracy Konopacky

As a team, I thought we really did well. We stuck our landings in the vault, and had two 9-point scores on the floor.

Todd Campbell

Mamma.com is such a speculative stock. It's the hairdresser syndrome all over again.

Chris Burke

I don't really have Down's syndrome; I just have a slight case of it.

Amiri Baraka

Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured

Richard Paul Evans

I have Tourettes syndrome.

Tony DeMuro

That was the way we want to see it end. It couldn't be any better than that with three teams going after it.

John Stockton

We could have one of the better teams we've ever had here. I think we're on our way back up.

Andy Athanas

Usually when you see teams do what we've done in two years, it's the same group. These are different kids.

Andre Patterson

We've done it more than most teams I've worked with.

Pete Rose

Any time you've got big teams winning, you've got big stars.

Tom Condon

Those are the two teams we have scheduled so far.

Jamelle Cornley

We can play with anybody, teams know that.

Bob Shoop

We do need to find another playmaker on offense, whether it's the tight end or who it is. Or teams are just going to quadruple-cover Bowser.

Jerry Moore

We don't see Big 12 teams very often,