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.

Matic Kralj

I was aiming high, but my stick cracked and I went short side.

Jordan Tata

I was aiming for the corner, and it would end up off the corner. I figured I'd just start it down the middle and let it work to the corner.

Dave Wilson

He was just a raw-boned kid that loved the game and never took a play off. Coming from a small town, he had not learned a whole lot about football. So he would always want to know, 'Coach, should I take a 6-inch step, should I take a 12-inch step, what's my aiming point?' It was like coaching a kid in youth league that wants to ask you a million questions.

Ric Sperling

He did what great players do. He put the team on his back, and carried us. We've been aiming for this all season long. We thought we'd have a good chance to win if we were able to score a couple of runs.

John Burke

If you remain too local, you become limited and parochial. In the other direction, you can become too detached from the people you are aiming to serve.

Fernando Alonso

I have scored 18 points in two races, which is a fantastic start to the season. I am aiming to win in Melbourne.

Patricia Petty

I'm very happy, period, because my goal was to have a better record than 6-10 of last year. If we have a winning season, then that will be what we've been aiming for to have constant development and improvement.

Tiki Barber

I'm sure that is what he's been aiming to do. Kerry is the kind of guy who just wants to win all the time. That's why I loved him.

Roger Ashby

I'm sure Kevin will have an eye on next year. He's brought in two or three players already and they'll come to Manor Park aiming to cause an upset so we must perform to our maximum.

Al Gore

I would not want to win the presidency by a few votes cast in error or misinterpreted or miscounted, and I don't think Governor Bush does either.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I think it is very important not to make a big deal out of it, because it is not, ... President Bush is always welcome to California.

Tony Juniper

He is right. The storm should be a warning to President Bush about the consequences of his climate change policies.

Roger Kubarych

Here's an appointment where Bush really can't make a mistake,

Paul Light

I think Bush takes a big hit. He's vulnerable on it, even if it's not totally fair.

Brian Harman

President Bush is such a great guy. He's very down to earth. We actually talked some about Georgia football. I told him I think he's doing a heck of a job.

Larry Sabato

President Bush is stubborn, and he doesn't like change. He likes a stable home environment.

Scott Rasmussen

President Bush isn't real to most people. But a lot of people meet the governor and feel they know him.

Louise Slaughter

President Bush is doing everything in his power to restrict and eventually eliminate a women's constitutionally protected right to abortion.

Chuck D.

He was in the school, too, and had failed the exam,

James Perry

If the model is River Gardens, it has failed miserably.

Mike McGlone

The market failed to see a smoking gun or anything too worrisome.

Manfred Guellner

Supporters of the CDU failed to vote because of reservations about Merkel.

Madeline Albright

This is a moment on the Korean peninsula and in our bilateral relations that is rich with opportunity, and we would be poor diplomats indeed if we failed to seize them,

Wayne Patterson

Foolishly, the Korean government had failed to post diplomats in Mexico and Hawaii to protect its immigrants.

Julie Zawisza

It's only for treatment-resistant patients -- people who have failed many other treatments and are very very sick with few other options.

Rob Mackowiak

We've all failed in different ways and, now, it's up to us. Obviously, the organization is looking to move into a better direction, so this should be a sign. We need to improve. All Mac could do was prepare us. He couldn't play for us. I wouldn't wish what happened to him on anybody, but you can't fire all of us.

Dick Cheney

What we're hearing from the other side is the failed thinking of the past, and we're not going back.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Mark Heiderscheid

John Day does a great job in the first half to keep us in it. There's got to be six or seven opportunities they get and he comes up big on saves.

Edward Meir

The Iranian situation remains on top of the heap in terms of market concerns.

David Boaz

The initial reaction was to throw heaps and heaps of money at the problem. While you've had increases in welfare spending over the last 40 years, you've also had increases in the number of unwed mothers, increases in crime.

Mike Wilton

It seemed like whoever ascended to the top of the heap would quickly give it away. Nobody could settle into that position last year.

Alice Smith

If it's out there, it's probably a heap of rust that would disintegrate if you tried to move it.

Li Zhaoxing

This should have been thrown into the trash heap of history a long time ago.

John Dryden

To see and to be seen, in heaps they run; / Some to undo, and some to be undone.

Annika Sorenstam

I think I played really well today, very solid overall; lots of fairways, lots of greens. I was really never in any trouble.

Julia Voth

I am big in Japan... heightwise! But, yeah, I started modeling there in my teens and into my 20s. I did Calvin Klein, Uniqlo, and lots of magazine covers. It's such a beautiful country, and they have beer vending machines right on the street. Love that!

Michael Hurst

He needs to know the actors have done lots of theatre ... made us quite nervous, actually,

Rob Brydon

I still have lots of friends from my pre-success days.

Salma Hayek

Life, I've got lots of friends. I don't complain.

Sam Cooke

I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money,

Roland Rust

If you think you want something with lots of features, you ought to think twice about that.

Simon Gagne

It's been a long stretch and lots of games, but we pulled it together and got some big wins.

Kimmo Timonen

I've got to think about our team and how we play. We've got lots of time to talk about this when we get back to Nashville.

AJ Michalka

I want make more records with my sister. I want to go on the road. I want to tour around the world. I want to continue to make great films and work with incredible directors that I respect and look up to.

Regina Spektor

I don't really make records chronologically.

Robert Crumb

I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me to do that. But I will trade my artwork, which I know is worth thousands of dollars.

Robert Wyatt

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Warren Buffett

An irresistable footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices they couldn't buy enough of them. In 1974, after the bottom had fallen out, they committed a then record low of 21% to stocks.

Samuel Beckett

My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.

Robert Pattinson

I definitely want to record an album, direct a film and start my own religion.

Waylon Jennings

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

Tony Visconti

The object is to make a great record and you have to do whatever it takes.

Helen Mirren

A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The status quo is working.