Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Seeger

John Hammond persuaded Columbia to put it out as a single, and it was the only one I ever had that sold more than 20,000.

George Stigler

Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University.

Steven Blum

What you're watching here is field training to a standard. The scenario is ... in the District of Columbia and we've cobbled together a task force from five different states to come in.

Scott Adsit

I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years, and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that.

Mark Goddard

I don't have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House.

Susan Smith

Physically, we are disconnected from the rest of Columbia. There are no easy connections to get to other parts of Columbia at this time because of our physical, geographical location to the rest of Columbia.

Cass Sunstein

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

Karl Marlantes

I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.

Kal Penn

To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.

J. J. Johnson

As much damage as has been done there, its likely there will be some cargo diverted to the Columbia River.

Camilo Villegas

It's awesome. If there's anything I can do to grow the sport in Columbia and give some people some smiles, that's what I'm here for.

Ezra Koenig

I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.

Eileen collins

We reflect on the last shuttle mission , the great ship Columbia and her inspiring crew

Carlo Rubbia

Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University.

Daniel S. Loeb

Perhaps I was always intensely curious, but my Columbia education gave me a framework and a perspective to investigate new things - things that could be put into a historical and philosophical lineage.

The scientific community urges immediate protection of the Hanford Reach ecosystem as the core strategy to recover Columbia Basin salmon.

The rocks in the Columbia Hills are nothing like the basalt on the plains. Water was involved in practically every one that we've seen so far.

The rocks in the Columbia Hills are nothing like the basalt on the plains, ... Water was involved in practically every one that we've seen so far.

Eric Wareheim

When I was 15, I wore combat boots with a fluorescent Columbia ski jacket. I was trying to find myself.

E. P. Thompson

Emily is the hardest working player I have seen. There is no doubt that Columbia State is getting a great player.

Andrew Cuomo

Eleven states and the District of Columbia have a higher minimum wage than we have here in New York, ... caboose on the economic train.

Brad James

Everything suggests that the white sturgeon population in the Lower Columbia River is stable. That, in turn, provides for a stable fishery.

Aretha Franklin

Columbia was a wonderful label for me. Wonderful. The records I made there garnered me an audience. I won a number of polls during the years that I was at Columbia. The Downbeat Jazz Poll. Leonard Feather, who was a huge critic back in the day, different polls that he had. The Playboy poll, a number of polls. So the music was great.

J. C. Watts

At that point, my mom joined the Columbia record club, and we got our first record, 'Kind of Blue' by Miles Davis.

Jim Messina

At that time, I was signed to Columbia Records as an Independent Producer. I spent many weeks forming, auditioning, rehearsing and recording demos for Kenny, who was finally signed to Columbia Records.

Bill Russell

What I think Columbia does is they just play real hard. I think that's what really helps their style.

Ellen Gustafson

I was studying International Relations at Columbia when 9/11 happened, and it made me want understand the security dynamics of the world. I had been more focused on soft power issues - understanding different cultures and such - but once 9/11 happened, I felt like I didn't know anything about security problems.

If we get a feeder service, such as Columbia Coastal, the price question might go away.

Kofi Annan

Because the exploration of space knows no national boundaries, the loss of the Columbia is a loss to all humankind,

Last year, 32 states and the District of Columbia were short of cement. Many will have worse shortages this year,

Some of the battleground states, particularly those with other high-profile elections -- Florida, Michigan, Missouri and Washington -- may have higher turnout. But since about 33 states and the District of Columbia were not targeted by the campaigns, it is likely that turnout will fall in most of those states.

Bill Self

That was big because people forget that Young was the guy who really hurt us in Columbia with 14 points and six offensive rebounds. I thought that (Kaun) played great post defense, and C.J., too.