Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Warren

People who graduate are more resilient financially, and they weather economic downturns better than people who don't graduate. And, throughout their lives, people who graduate are more likely to be economically secure, more likely to be healthy, and more likely to live longer. Face it: A college degree puts a lot in your corner.

David H. Murdock

I'll match wits with anybody. I don't care if they have the top degree in the world.

Nick Nolte

I have a high degree of sensitivity, always have. I was very shy as a child. I don't know why that was.

Pete Townshend

In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

Adrian McKinty

I did a law degree but was miserable the whole time. I was supposed to join a law firm in London but instead went to Oxford to do a master's in philosophy.

Bob Newhart

Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian, even though we work 180 degrees differently, but funny is funny is funny.

Mike Nichols

The degree to which you're peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in self-defense you have to learn, where is their kindness? Where is their danger? Where is their generosity?

Wole Soyinka

Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.

Louis Freeh

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.

Elizabeth Warren

I graduated law school nine months pregnant and didn't take a job.

Charlie Trotter

When I graduated I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want a conventional career.

Ving Rhames

I graduated on a Friday. By Monday, I was doing Shakespeare in the Park.

Bill Whyde

Where are all the kids who graduated the last 25 years? There is nothing to keep them here.

Al Jourgensen

You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot.

Eric Porter

We could have kids that have graduated in here or kids from other schools, ... This will help teachers identify students.

Tim Ceglarski

We have a team that graduated 60 percent of its offense from last year and our younger guys have to step up into some roles that were left open. Our guys are trying; we're just not seeing a lot of success.

Solange Knowles

We are already paying bills, having responsibilities most people don't have even when they're 24 and haven't graduated from college.

Steve Huling

We have to find some high jumpers. We graduated two seniors who did very well.

Ludwig von Mises

There is no remedy for the inefficiency of public management.

Ludwig von Mises

Daily experience proves clearly to everybody but the most bigoted fanatics of socialism that governmental management is inefficient and wasteful.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Ed Moyle

Worry in a CIO reflects uncertainty in the management process.

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Benjamin Franklin

Anger and folly walk cheek by sole.

Guy Dolle

Unfortunately, my son is not on the management team.

Jack Welch

Be candid with everyone.

Jack Welch

Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.

Jessica Hagedorn

It's not just NYU. There are days when I feel like I'm stranded in some upscale mall in Pasadena. Don't even get me started on the insidious transformation of Bleecker Street!

Skeet Ulrich

I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.

Ashley Bell

I come from a theater background. I studied acting at NYU and also the Groundlings in L.A.

Lady Gaga

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

Will Chase

I played more performances of 'Chris' in 'Miss Saigon' than anyone else.

Colm Meaney

I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.

Jamie Dixon

We played well in the first half, and we should have been up by more. Teams lose. It's how you respond, and we've always responded well.

Paul Dowe

We played well enough to win. The bounces just didn't go our way.

Willie Randolph

We played well enough to win. I'd rather win, but you can't be disappointed.

Paul Doerrfeld

We played well enough to win, but if we play one of the top teams in the state tonight, we're not even close.

Jose Theodore

We played well defensively and we waited for our chances. That's how we're going to have success and that's the way we have to play at home.

Amy Newman

We played well, but we could have still done better,

Aaron Bender

We played well, but had too many errors. We had a five-out inning in the fifth.

Yoko Ono

After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

Nancy Roman

I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

Birdman

I was a young-un when I got my first million. Then I realized if I got one, I could get two. If I could get two, I could get ten. If I could get ten, I could get a hundred.

Walter Isaacson

He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.

John Thorne

When I realized what was going on, I wanted to give. If you've got things that make sense to give, then we should do it.

Dorothy McGuire

When I first read the script, I realized that Katie would have to be played as a rather down-to-earth person.

Yigal Azrouel

I started out making personal pieces, and realized that I actually like designing. I am self-taught, so I had a lot to learn technically.

Joel Madden

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.

Chuck D.

I think they realized the timing was all wrong.

Don Yaeger

In sports, championships often define a person's legacy.

Peter Steele

We're the only species who hunts for sport.

Tora Berger

When I was about 18, I started to think that I could have a long sporting career.

Jerry Seinfeld

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

Nikki Reed

I'm into outdoor sports like hiking, windsurfing, water-skiing.

Stephan James

Growing up, I was always into sports - basketball and volleyball - but I wasn't really a runner.

Larry King

Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.

Wilson Bethel

I do like all different kinds of sports and stuff. I've taken up gymnastics and slacklining - you know, tightroping, basically.

Pete Rose

You don't dominate any sport when you're over 40.

Alan Bennett

If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.

Bill Jenkins

Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.

Bob McDonnell

I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast.

Agnes Varda

When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.

Mercy Otis Warren

A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia

Neil Gaiman

There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

Henry Adams

The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression and that every.

Mamie Gummer

My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.

Argus Hamilton

The Concord Coalition in Virginia complained about pork projects and wasteful spending in the federal budget. Consider the Senate chaplain's salary. As occupations go, only mind readers in Los Angeles have fewer things to do all day.

Lars Mikkelsen

I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.

Will Hobbs

I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

Ann Strother

To have all of us go somewhere, to be all on the West Coast, too, it?s going to be really neat.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised. ...

Ariel Sharon

We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state.

James Arness

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

Ai Weiwei

The world is a sphere, there is no East or West.

Djimon Hounsou

I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.