John Grant Quotations

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

Something big, ... is about to happen at Notre Dame.

The Graveyard of the Atlantic exhibit reflects the aquarium's proximity to the state's Outer Banks, where thousands of ships have run aground over the centuries. Divers in the exhibit carry on a conversation with visitors outside the tank.

I've been coming to Notre Dame since 1957. This place, this campus, is the closest thing there is to perfection.

This is a unique aquarium in that a large portion of its collection features freshwater species, and it specializes in fish, amphibians and reptiles from the southwestern part of the country. The River Journey exhibit transports visitors from the Appalachian highlands through ponds, rivers and swamps, all the way to the seacoast. The recently added Ocean Journey exhibit allows visitors to sample a variety of saltwater environments.

It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or so, three stood out quite distinctly, head and shoulders above the rest of the herd: Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, and Bush’s America. At times when working on the three relevant chapters, I had to remind myself which chapter was the one in front of me: the parallels between the three regimes, in terms of their vigorous attempts to trample honest science underfoot, are as horrifically close as that.

All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.

Many exhibits from this aquarium use Hawaii's abundant natural daylight. This allows Waikiki to display only live coral, which creates beautiful exhibits. It's also a world leader in the propagation of live coral. The aquarium features some unusual and rarely seen species, including the chambered nautilus and the endangered Hawaiian monk seal.

The Giant Ocean Tank, with its 52 large viewing windows, is the main attraction here. Myrtle, a giant green sea turtle, is one of the tank's most popular animals, along with sharks, rays and more than 100 other species. The Aquarium Medical Center is a working animal hospital exhibit that allows visitors to observe veterinarians examining and treating sea creatures.

The country's newest aquarium, opened in November, bills itself as the largest in the world, holding more than 100,000 animals representing 500 species. It is the first in the USA to display whale sharks, the largest fish in the world.

The oldest continuously operated aquarium in the country features 630 species and more than 8,000 animals. The walruses are especially popular.

When I announced on my Facebook page that I'm coming to Israel, people started telling me that I shouldn't go there, but I figured that if I'm not going to come here, then I guess I can't go back to the United States anymore and I can never go to Russia again and I should probably never go back to Germany and I should probably never go back to France and I should probably never go back to England....All I see here is a really beautiful city.

What brands can do brilliantly is broker change in people's lives.

One of the sad things is that the families may not get the definitive answer some think they're going to get,

One of the sad things is that families may not get the definitive answer some think they're going to get -- who instigated this particular bombing, ... This is not about who ordered the bombing of Pan Am 103, it's only about whether these two guys did it.

I have been playing horrible lacrosse, last week was evident, so I've been trying to stay positive and work on things and being a team guy.

Jim is kind of the constant to photography in Denver, on a lot of levels. He's a historical archive.

Our power-play's been playing well all year, that's been one of the bright spots of our team this year, and we got the shot and it went in.

Reasonable people in the city of Oceanside would say, 'Great, get rid of that old trailer park,' ... don't like it, (but) they're going to have to move.

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Located in the Inner Harbor area, and well known for its dolphin demonstrations, this is one of Maryland's most popular tourist attractions. The newest exhibit, Animal Planet's Australia: Wild Extremes, depicts survival stories in an extreme environment and features 1,800 Australian animals.

Located along the shoreline in beautiful Monterey, MB focuses on the rich and diverse habitat of the bay. The one-of-a-kind Kelp Forest Exhibit features swaying giant kelp and a host of fish and other marine animals. The Outer Bay wing is one of the few places in the USA to view schools of large tuna. Visitors also can observe sea otters and a beautiful sea jelly exhibit.

We could have really put them in a hole, and we could have carried some momentum.

There's not much talk of it; we don't push it.

The scoring title would have been nice but we're hosting a playoff game next week so that's pretty exciting.

It was about deciding that I was going to work toward living on this planet instead of learning how to destroy myself. That song is basically sort of a promise to try to live instead of giving up.

Aquariums have always inspired a certain amount of wonder. This program demonstrates how aquarium professionals do their work.

Anytime in the game if you hit a guy from behind into the boards it should be a penalty. It was more their stupidity than a call going in our favor.

The University is very concerned about the possibility of fire on our campus. We have hundreds of acres of land that are extremely dry due to the recent drought. Even areas that are usually somewhat wet (like Groundhog Park) are in a very dry and fire prone condition right now.

It is the worst case of airline terrorism -- the largest mass murder in the world,

It's sort of nice to take a journey on a record and end up in all sorts of different places.

I'll be thinking about that one for a couple of weeks. It was pretty stupid on my part. I have no idea why I did it; I'm miserable that I did.

If you can see a reflection of yourself as part of that, one becomes more inspired. They may be exercising to music I like or that is more culturally attuned.

Fraud is the daughter of greed.