Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Lipton

I'll tell you why, I don't invite the ones I don't like.

Roger Babson

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Anne Sullivan

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

Charles Vest

The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.

Charles Vest

There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government.

Charles Vest

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

Charles Vest

Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.

Charles Vest

The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended.

Charles Vest

Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.

John Bisio

Anyone who suggests the number is inaccurate is way out of bounds. What would we have to gain from that? We are in no position to mislead people. A lot of people have an interest in working at Wal-Mart.

David Beckham

Anyone would welcome a player like Michael back into the team. He'll be on a high after signing for Newcastle,

James Rubin

Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the FBI and Diplomatic Security Service immediately. The United States will ensure complete confidentiality to anyone who provides information on Mr. Dahoumane, to include possible relocation to the United States.

Richard James

Anyone who wears black knee socks with Bermuda shorts are not to be taken seriously.

Dot Jones

Anybody can relate to anyone on 'Glee' at some point in their life.

Nelson Wiseman

Appointing former politicians to the job is dreadful, dreadful, dreadful, because you don't want anyone with the appearance of bias when a question of constitution comes up. So she was a welcome appointee.

Suze Orman

A reverse mortgage is available to anyone who is at least 62 years old and owns a home outright, or has a small mortgage balance remaining.

Sandy Simpson

Are they the team they've been for the last four or five years? Maybe not, but that means they're only a little bit better than everyone else. They've shown a bit of vulnerability, but it's too early for anyone to start dancing around the funeral pyre.

Herman Edwards

Anytime you change offenses on a guy, that's tough, ... Chad doesn't want anyone to feel sorry for him. He understands what's going on. At the end of the day, he's going to be a very good quarterback in this league. He's going to win a lot. And he's won. He's won a lot of games here already. He's going to get better and we're going to get better as a team. That's my belief.

Deyon Pitter

You are the pilot of your life, therefore you determine your destination, and which direction will take you there.

Mike Klemm

Spirits are up. There's a good feeling out there. We all know this was forced upon us and everyone is determined to see it through.

Jarome Iginla

In the third, we were a lot more determined hockey club.

Steve Lawrence

We're trying to determine what the problem is. Everything will be done from the outside.

Pat Keliher

We're trying to determine if we get better results with these eggs than with salmon reared in a hatchery.

Laura McElroy

We're trying to determine if it was a homicide.

Anne Steele

We're trying to determine exactly what happened, how it happened and when it happened,

Lee Swislow

We are working to determine which signatures were fraudulently obtained.

Jim Fowler

We will dissect the lake for them, then let them fish the following weekend to determine how much the juniors learned,

Richard Mitchell

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

Jens Stoltenberg

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

Ernst Mayr

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

James F. Cooper

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.