Columbia Quotations

The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.

My youngest brother and I went on a ten-day canoe trip in Bowron Provincial Park in British Columbia years ago. Believe it or not, we took only granola, thinking we'd be eating a lot of lake trout. Well, we neglected to bring along a net, and our fishing line was only 8-lb. test.

I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations.

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

Ironically, it is only when disaster strikes that the shuttle makes the headlines. Its routine flights attracted less media interest than unmanned probes to the planets or the images from the Hubble Telescope. The fate of Columbia (like that of Challenger in 1986) reminded us that space is still a hazardous environment.

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.

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.

I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.

Before I joined The Beach Boys, I was working at Columbia Records as a producer, and saw The Byrds come in and do their first overdub before Terry even met them.

I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!

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.

I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.

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.

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

After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University where I remained from 1947 until 1958.

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

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.

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.

Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now.

I was on the campaign trail for 18 months. I never got a question about the District of Columbia in South Carolina.

They are always telling us that Carolina Blue is not a color, that it is really Columbia blue or sky blue. But there is no bad blood amongst the teammates. All of our kidding is in good fun.

I try not to deal with people's hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.

My father was among the first of his generation to look into writers who've become part of the American lit. canon. When he wrote his master's thesis on William Faulkner in the Forties, he couldn't find anybody on the faculty at Columbia University to oversee it because they didn't read Faulkner.

I definitely want to study global health. Right now I'm working on all the prerequisite core curriculum that Columbia has. So getting all of that out of the way. And I definitely want to pursue something along the lines of public health.

We have never lost a crew member on the space station, but of course, the Columbia accident. I was - I'd already been an astronaut for a decade when the crew of Columbia was killed. And I went through test pilot school. Rick Husband and I were out at Edwards at test pilot school together. He was the commander of Columbia.

For the first five years of my life, I grew up in a log cabin in coastal British Columbia in a very small town, like 300 people, mostly hippies. No running water, no electricity. When I was 12, I changed my name from Dharma to Stewart. At that age, you just want to be normal.

The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these books from time to time to remember how a great book works on us or to teach my students at Columbia University.

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

I never was one to go into an office and write. For one thing, I had a job. I was cleaning the ashtrays and setting up the studios at Columbia for a couple of years and working every other week down in the Gulf of Mexico flying helicopters. I didn't really get to just write songs for about five years.

The genre of narrative business books that I love so much - the ones that have a you-are-there quality - was invented, or so it is said, in 1982 by David McClintick, who wrote 'Indecent Exposure,' a rollicking good read about a Hollywood scandal and the ultimate boardroom power struggle at Columbia Pictures.

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.

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

We call the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia - as well as those of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia - 'accidents.' Foreseeing such undesirable events is what engineers are expected to do. However, design trade-offs leave technological systems open to failings once predicted, but later forgotten.

The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.

I wouldn't get nearly as many books written if I lived in New York. The Columbia Gorge is fantastic. When the sun shines, I just want to be outdoors.

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.

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

To most people, when they drive by, it will be the ABC Columbia building. You get extra recognition. It draws a little more attention to what you're doing.

We're making changes because the bookstore has struggled to make a profit or break even over the past few years. We have begun affiliating our bookstore with Columbia as they are the eighth largest in the country and know how to run a retail company.

When we first touched down at Gusev Crater on the night of January 4, 2004, the Columbia Hills seemed impossibly far away. It was a necessary place for us to get to, though, because as we looked across the plains we quickly realized these plains were made of basaltic lava. This was stuff that was interesting but did not tell us what we really sought to know about Gusev Crater, and that is whether there had been water here. So in order to find something, in order to find something different, we had to make that mile-and-a-half drive.

What Harris Teeter looks for is a certain demographic, household income and education level, and Columbia really fit the demographic.

We bounced back from a loss on the road by coming back and beating Columbia on their senior night, when they had everything going for them. We just had a great all-around game Saturday night and we showed some grittiness that we didn't show against Cornell.

We face UNH and Columbia this weekend, and we usually play well against both teams. I am very confident about our chances this weekend.

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

We've undergone a very heavy level of scrutiny by review boards because of Genesis and because of the Columbia accident. . . . It was a cultural shift in NASA, that you're now required to understand all the risks.

We want to take advantage of playing on our home field. Columbia and Cornell are both great teams. Both squads have great pitching and great hitting and we're not underestimating that, but we can do just as well.

There are few things more precious on any university campus than freedom of thought and expression, ... That is the teaching of the First Amendment, and I believe it should be the principle we live by at Columbia University.

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.

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

When we started the mission, if anyone had told us that we would not only drive all the way over to the Columbia Hills, but also drive to the highest point there, I think we would not have really believed it.

Losing to Columbia and barely beating a few other Ivy teams is unacceptable, so we are all a little upset with the finish. Still, the scores were bunched and we were only 12 shots out of first, so it's not like we are too far off.

Now, the supposed justifications for restart have completely evaporated and the funds that are being wasted will go where they have long belonged: into cleaning up the environment that adjoins our lifeblood, the Columbia River, ... After years of indecision, the people of the Pacific Northwest deserve to have the money used to clean up the contamination at Hanford rather than on some wild good chase.

Right now, it just does not make sense to us that a piece of debris is the root cause to explain the loss of the Columbia crew. There has got to be another reason.

NBC was at Sunset and Vine. ABC was across the street on Vine. Mutual was also on Vine. CBS' Columbia Square was on Sunset. It was a very busy place.

I was going to Columbia Pictures and Eastman Kodak had a class going for cameramen. I signed up to be a field cameraman. I showed this film to my professor and he showed it to Frank Capra.

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.

I wouldn't characterize the company as struggling - that's an unfair characterization, ... The company needs cash. That's the outcome of the unanticipated termination of our merger with Columbia House, as opposed to any characteristic of the company itself, in terms of its ability to do business.

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

I got out of Columbia and then into the American Abstract Artist group, which had almost all the abstract artists in the coutry in it, about 40 or 50.

If they don't vote for her, I hope somebody will have the decency to tell them to go stuff it, ... If they won't support a young woman from British Columbia to be prime minister of Canada, I hope they stop talking about western alienation.

I have had a lot of thoughts about Columbia and I will have thoughts after the landing, We're all going to be very focused ... on the job at hand.

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

I felt great for the kids in getting the win at Ronan. They had been working so hard and were coming up short this season. That can be frustrating but they have kept working and improving. If we keep improving the little things we can play with anybody. We'll have to eliminate the self-imposed mistakes and focus on our job against Columbia Falls.

He had a heck of a game against Columbia earlier this year, but I think this is probably his best one. He gave us a big boost tonight. Hopefully a big win like this means we're ready for a stretch run.

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.

We made the decision that nobody coming to Columbia or the Midlands would be put in a shelter. They would go into homes or hotel rooms. It gives them privacy, and it gives them some dignity in their existence.

Kentucky was one of 18 states plus the District of Columbia that reported an unemployment rate above the U.S. jobless rate in December 2005.

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.

I think in past years Nebraska's always got their best shot when they go into Columbia (Mo.). There have been some great games in the last 10 years there. You know we're going to get their best shot. They need this win just as badly as we do to stay in contention for the Big 12 North. They came off a big win last week, and they think they'll beat us, so they're going to be fired up.

I think its good that Columbia State recruits our players. This gives them a chance to continue their education and their basketball at home.

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.

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.

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

I remember very much there in Falls Church there was a creek that was flowing down into 4 Mile Run. I believe it's now covered up where it goes under Columbia Street. I found a whole family of weasels down there.

I remember the night we saw him in Columbia as a freshman and thinking to myself that he was going to be a handful for the league over the next four years. That definitely turned out to be the case. He just presents so many challenges to a defense with his size, his speed and his feel of the game. He is also a player who had the respect of people around the Big 12 for the way he conducted himself. He is a person that the Missouri program and fans can be proud of in a lot of ways.

Over the last few years, Elliott has developed a deep understanding of the legal imperatives facing the music industry in the digital age. In addition, he has played a significant part in several of our corporate transactions, including the acquisition of Word Entertainment and the sale of Warner Bros. Publications and our interest in The Columbia House Company.

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.

regardless of the conclusions that the department has reached concerning Microsoft's conduct, as of yet no court has found that Microsoft has violated the antitrust laws; to the contrary, the recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has raised serious questions about the validity of the department's antitrust suit against Microsoft.

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.

Look, I'm an easy mark, ... But was 'You Light Up My Life' a vanity production? No one thought I could do that, either. I only got to do it because my investment adviser had put me in cattle the year before and all the cattle died. He felt guilty so he raised the money for the film. Even when it was done, nobody wanted it. I finally had to go to Columbia and say: 'You've got to put out this film. You simply have to.'

I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

I think she wanted to stay close to home after she finished here. Then after two years at Columbia State she will go on to finish her college at a four-year school.

I think of myself of helping keep him grounded and not let him forget Columbia and where we grew up.

I still think of Columbia as one Rita Hayworth movie a year, or maybe one a year directed by Frank Capra in the '30s. To see how many really outstanding movies Columbia made, and all together, is kind of eye-opening.

I thought it was a good event. I'm not displeased. I thought that we had a pretty decent crowd. Obviously it wasn't as large as South Carolina State. But hopefully the city of Columbia and the people of South Carolina will see that this is a very viable game, and they'll decide they will come out and support these young people. This is a very good game.

I love Columbia, Missouri, if it wasn't for the authorities, I'd go back.

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.

We're curious to see whether or not the rocks, in fact, are tilted to the south. So far, we have seen them largely tilted to the north. That is going to tell us about the structure and a little bit more about the evolution of the Columbia Hills. And also whether or not the variety of the rocks that we've seen so far continues to increase.

We haven't added a new customer in two years, but we were able to buy natural gas futures at a good price, so we can offer Columbia and Dominion Peoples customers these prices. Existing Peoples Plus customers already have a better deal.

We were just trying to get to Columbia too quickly. We were rushing. That happens. You get anxious and you rush. When you rush, you look bad, and we're not a team that can look good rushing. That's what happened.

Today, we honored the Columbia crew. We brought Discovery home safely. You want to know how I feel? I feel fantastic. It's good to be us today.

Today we honored the Columbia crew. We brought Discovery home safely. It's a great day.

We have made excellent progress in the structural steel business since we began shipping wide-flange beams in 2002. Recent strength in non-residential construction has led to a record order backlog at Columbia City and has resulted in current production and shipping rates of nearly one million tons per year.

We want to know if this is a resident animal or is coming down from Canada. What they've found in British Columbia and Idaho is that they are very sensitive to disturbance at their den sites, so we'd like to know where those are.

The decisions we make in the next few months will affect the future of the space program for decades to come, ... They need to be made deliberately. That's the proper way to honor the memories of the Columbia crew.

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

We called all over Columbia and Orlando. Every refrigerated truck available for rent was already in New Orleans helping with the relief effort. It forced us to put the transport on hold for quite a few months.