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.

Ben Jordan

We can't keep going like this when we don't have roads and schools to support all these homes. I am glad commissioners understand they can't keep approving these things without the roads and the schools to support them.

Fran Hawthorne

The problem isn't with the FDA not approving drugs fast enough; it's that the drug industry isn't coming up with enough new drugs.

Ruben Aguilar

The presidency congratulates the Congress for approving the reforms. This law gives police and prosecutors better legal tools to combat drug crimes that do so much damage to our youth and children.

Gus Van Sant

I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doing.

Larry Snow

For me personally it is a vindication. ... I said this $13 million was meant to scare voters into approving the referendum. There was no cash-flow crisis.

Eric Schmidt

He seems to understand the industry's need for straightforward communication on the drug review process and the fact that time is money. Also, he realizes that there is a risk and a benefit to approving any new product and that decisions should be based upon this balance.

Joshua Cohen

I first read Dostoyevsky when I was 14 years old and was entranced. Dostoyevsky truly is a writer for 14-year-olds, and I mean that in the most approving way - approving of his energy, and rage, his endless pessimism, and endless innocence.

Pam Richardson

We usually discuss the goals in August and don't end up approving them until November.

Donald Thompson

I will be approving the appointment, however, because I think it will be irresponsible if we don't have proper leadership in the high school.

Yahoo Serious

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Thorstein Veblen

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Todd Rundgren

Sometimes being a musician has little to do with viability and everything to do with survivability. Many musicians start out great, and they wind up out of the business in 10 years.

Thomas J. Watson

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

Imelda May

One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in - I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.

Ian Watson

People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

Gladys Knight

I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs.

Donald Trump

I had tremendous success in show business - star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'The Apprentice' was one of the most successful shows.

Zac Goldsmith

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

Ernest Walton

The high esteem in which the Nobel Prizes are held is undoubtedly due to the conscientious way in which the Committees have discharged a heavy responsibility.

Elaine Elliott

That would be our best-case scenario. It would be historic. It would be another step forward. (The selection committee is) at least going to have to give us a serious look.

Linwood Norman

That will be evaluated by the mayor's education committee and by the mayor, moving forward.

Sander Levin

The Ways and Means Committee for me has this opportunity to work with programs where I can take my parents' sense of community and make it work.

Pat Summitt

We have to learn to handle better. We have to do it by committee when we don't have a point guard on the floor.

Milos Forman

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.

Pam Richardson

Members of our committee felt some things needed to be updated.

George F. Will

It is committee meetings, called huddles, separated by outbursts of violence.

Charles Schumer

I think, if you were to hold the vote today, she would not get a majority, either in the Judiciary Committee or on the floor,

Yolanda Adams

People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.

Tina Turner

People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

Tim Tebow

Before a game, you know, I can take off my helmet, run over there and spend a few moments with someone who is dealing with so much more than I've ever had to deal with and to love on them and care about them and in front of thousands and thousands of people, you know, let them know that they're more important than all of this.

Gilbert Hernandez

I happen to think Latinas, Latin women, are the most beautiful women in the world. So that's what I'm going to draw. I love women from all cultures, of course, but if I was going to deal with any of them, that would be No. 1 for me.

Gil Gerard

It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff.

Donald Trump

You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It's not that they have to sink the putt and there's a great deal of talent involved - but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest.

William Kent Krueger

Write because you love the work, not because of what might come from it. The journey is the purpose. Very Zen-like, I know, but honest to God it's the truth. And I have never had to deal with writer's block. Knock on wood.

Vivek Wadhwa

The most valuable lesson I learned in dealing with the ups and downs was to invest in my employees - to do all I could for them when the times were good.

Yehuda Berg

If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.

Idina Menzel

I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.

Ian Mckellen

It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.

Isabel Sanford

I was very comfortable having a steady job on a hit show, and who knew if 'The Jeffersons' would catch on?

Constance Marie

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

Clotilde Hesme

People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.

Evangeline Lilly

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

Evangeline Lilly

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

Ben Carson

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Beeban Kidron

When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.

Darcy Tucker

We've had enough closed-door meetings this year. We don't need another one - the score said it all.

Amy Poehler

It is completely improvised. We have had no meetings backstage, we have not written anything, and everything you see onstage tonight is being made up on the spot,

Robert Mueller

I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Jim Daley

He will miss no meetings here. As I told him Day 1: if I have a problem, it'll be a short-lived experiment.

James Franklin

He handles the meetings well, stays on top of everything and has the time to do the job.

Diane Swonk

If they move between meetings it's usually a move to shore up confidence.

Roy Wilson

If this continues, we set up meetings and they don't show, it is going to take a long, long time.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

Powers Boothe

I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.

Gary Brown

We're not done yet. We know the Senate has to take it up yet. We're a ways away from groundbreaking and a ribbon-cutting.

Allan Bense

Hopefully, the Senate can muster the votes as well,

Richard Lamm

If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it.

Pauline Hanson

She may not be sitting in the Senate but she's still standing for us.

Tom Daschle

As we speak, the Senate is in session,

George Stephanopoulos

It only works in the Senate if everyone agrees,

Mitch McConnell

I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.

Henry Hyde

The Senate shouldn't tell us how to try our case,