Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicole Holofcener

I went to NYU for a year and a half, and I graduated from there and then years later went to Columbia for graduate school.

Dinaw Mengestu

The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains - but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction - that, of course, is a permanent part of me now.

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.

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.

P. J. O'Rourke

The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal.

Daniel Goldstein

I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers, or I would have to give up five dollars.

Eileen collins

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

Fred Delk

This is a great opportunity for Columbia to show itself off.

John Lindsey

There are doctors and lawyers and professors all over Columbia waiting for opportunities like this to get a spot of heaven, to get away from the rat race.

Denis Villeneuve

I'm learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen.

Nina Garcia

Serving jury duty is a fascinating little slice of life, with its motley crew of personalities.

Dave Reichert

The men and women who make up a plane's crew put their lives in jeopardy each time they fly. It's our job as much as anyone's to make sure we make it as safe as possible up there for them.

French Montana

Is it important to have a crew behind me? No, it's important to have me behind them. That's how I look at it. You can't just roll with a situation like you're depending on somebody to help you. You're supposed to help the situation, whatever the situation is that you're in.

Naomie Harris

When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.

Linda M. Godwin

We still have a lot of international partner modules that need to get up there to make it truly the international structure that it will be, and that's highly important; we need to get to where the crew size is bigger.

Linda M. Godwin

Our shuttle crew is four people, because we're going to transfer a crew up to station, so all the jobs are divided between four people rather than five or six people. So it's been busy.

Rick Catlett

We are going to turn our stadium around between the Jaguar game on (Jan. 1) at 4 p.m. and we'll be playing the next day at 12:30 (p.m.). The field will be a little messed up. The grounds crew could fix (it). But, really, the stadium can be done.

Alberta Stima

We're down to a skeleton crew with the substitutes. We need volunteers to keep the program running smoothly.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A great ratatouille is one in which the vegetables interact with each other but are still discernible from each other. The trick is to cook them just right: not over, not under.

William Shatner

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.

William Shatner

In entertainment, whether it's movies or television or whatever, I'm a great audience, but I don't remember the names of the people I've seen or the groups that I've heard.

Wentworth Miller

I know what it takes to go from the point where someone's looking at a newspaper article, and thinking, 'Oh, this would make a great TV series,' to the point where you're actually on a set and there's a camera aimed at someone.

William Manchester

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

Wes Anderson

Every time you do a take on a movie, you're not sure if it's going to succeed. Even if you have a great cast, like we had, every scene you're kind of waiting for the release. 'Oh, yes; it happened. We got it!' There's always the possibility that it's just not going to work.

Zubin Mehta

The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.

Abraham Lincoln

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

Samuel Butler

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Jennifer Lawrence

I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I don't want little girls to be like, 'Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner.' That's something I was really conscious of during training, when you're trying to get your body to look exactly right. I was trying to get my body to look fit and strong-not thin and underfed.

Dear Abbey

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

Lisa McMann

I don't see a day when teenagers don't read. They are very enthusiastic. That is so inspiring to me.

Mark Cuban

Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.

Mark Cuban

Because if you're prepared and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.

William Shakespeare

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

Robert Kiyosaki

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction.

Robert Kiyosaki

I wasn't born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

Bruce Anderson

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

Victoria Osteen

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Richard Daley

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Cynthia Ozick

In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an intellectual or psychological discovery. But when you write fiction, you don't know where you are going - sometimes down to the last paragraph - and that is the pleasure of it.

Andy Williams

We played 90 minutes of hard-fought soccer, which we didn't do for one minute last week.

Nigel Newton

We have made a number of big purchases in the last six months. We're in a position to do so.

Jim Rogers

We did very well with the last legislative session and I think we will do very well in the next session so long as we can prove our case.

Kenichiro Sasae

We are not necessarily satisfied, ... working up to the last minute.

Jim Adams

We have a mission to accomplish. Their first obligation is to their employer.

Charles Studd

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

Charles Studd

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

Terri Smith

We want them to know missions are not just something in Africa; they can be done right next door.

David Brainerd

Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!

David Brainerd

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

Christopher Simpson

was very uncomfortable with no paperwork to support the mission request. He wasn't going to 'do nothin', as he said, without seeing some money. ...'no tickey, no laundry.'

Carolyn Porco

Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was,

David Kim

The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control.

Alan Cohen

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

Peter Orszag

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

Lyssa Dennard

We had to reflect on what went wrong.

Josh Beekman

You are a reflection of the school. You're not just representing BC, but also yourself.

Martin Sheen

We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

Charles Dickens

We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.

Charles Dickens

I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and whether our butcher contracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; but I kept my reflections to myself.

Randy May

We need to step up to the 21st century. It's important that we can get ships in that can unload quickly.

Alan Shepard

The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder

Alan Watts

The wake doesn't drive the ship

David Dreman

Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

Benjamin Franklin

Little leaks sink the ship.

James H. Boren

Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.

Henry A. Kissinger

Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.

Jon Heder

Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!

Chris Hadfield

When I did my spacewalks, it was during space station construction. So the shuttle was docked to the fledgling ISS at the time. So we would always stay tethered.

Rene Burri

I witnessed the building of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the first orbiter to be launched into space.

Sergei Krikalev

We need another shuttle and many more Soyuz's to visit the station,

Tom Jones

Because the shuttle is docked, it wouldn't be able to go after them if they got away.

Louis Friedman

The shuttle was a terrific technical success, but it was a programmatic disaster.