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.

Zac Efron

I feel disconnected, like I don't know where I am, if I'm on my phone too much. I'm also just the type to call. I'm not good on text.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Salbitxada is a sharp and lightly sweet Catalan sauce that's traditionally served with calcots - spring or salad onions, grilled whole, make a good substitute.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Verjuice may not be the easiest thing in the world to find, but you should be able to track some down in good delis and online.

Yotam Ottolenghi

There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.

Walter F. Ulmer

We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.

Valerie June

The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

Val Kilmer

The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.

Henry David Thoreau

Be not simply good - be good for something.

Abraham Lincoln

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Evangeline Lilly

I hated being a flight attendant. I did it for a month and then quit.

Clive Sinclair

I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever - I was a very quiet kid at school - just hated me.

Fritz Lang

I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know.

Chris Squire

I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style.

Elsa Peretti

I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.

Christine Lahti

You know what's weird is that we all parent the way we were parented. Sometimes I find myself saying just the things I hated to hear my mother say.

Sophie Lowe

When I first went to L.A., I really hated it. I had this preconceived idea of what it would be like. You think of Hollywood as this beautiful place, but everything looks rundown and old.

Gareth Bale

I was never too much into school. I liked lunchtimes and breaks, but nah, I hated sitting at a desk. I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.

Luke Mitchell

I never did drama at school. I did it for one term, when it was compulsory, and I hated it. Tennis was the main thing in my life, and I was not open to anything else. When I removed tennis from the equation, I didn't know who I was.

Will Chase

In acting, you have to know that you are worth something. I knew I had some talent somewhere.

Clint Eastwood

I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.

Neil Simon

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

Daddy Yankee

We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.'

Glenn Beck

Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.

Jason Bloom

We prepared well for Robert Morris and knew what we were going to face.

Tyrone Hayes

I knew Tim Pastoor. I knew Sherry Ford. I knew many of the individuals who would follow me around. I knew who they were. I knew they had access to my email.

Bob Newhart

I just made the decision that I was going to try comedy, and if didn't work, then I knew it didn't work. Then I would go back and do whatever. But at least I wouldn't torture myself the rest of my life, wondering whatever would have happened.

Adriana Lima

Actually, I never really thought I would be a model. I never knew a lot about fashion and magazines, and I never paid attention to it. I was a young girl, though.

will.i.am

It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.

Bikram Choudhury

Do you know, every yoga school in India is free?

V. S. Naipaul

At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,--the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts. We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,--just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.

Eric Betzig

Chemistry was always my weakest subject in high school and college.

Nick Park

I used to get in trouble at school for day-dreaming.

Ansel Elgort

I never really did that well in school because I was so absorbed with doing acting.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.

Frederic William Farrar

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.