Famous Quotes & Sayings

We studied different countries around the world that are representative of different situations and took a look at where they'd end up. One thing that happens right away, which nobody seems to have thought of, is that the total global population increases dramatically. From an original projection of 8 billion we end up topping out at 10 to 11 billion. In many countries, this would have an enormous, and not necessarily positive, impact. For example, the idea that China would go from 1.5 to 1.8 billion, just because of this, is a bit frightening.

I was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish.

Nigel Kennedy

Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was one of the foremost interpreters of Bach for the violin.

Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.

Eiza Gonzalez

I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language.

Edward Brooke

I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

Edwin Moses

In particular, I studied German and Russian biomechanics.

Eric Carle

That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for.

Kara Swisher

Here's the thing: I fell impossibly in love with the Internet from the minute I saw it in action in the early 1990s. From that moment on, I have studied it, analyzed it, reported on it, and, mostly, have not been without it as a part of my daily life since.

Bernie Bickerstaff

We want to build a team that has ability to sustain itself, not just an ability to win a few more games right away. We've studied all the expansion teams. We're working under the idea that it's a marathon, not a sprint.

Kourtney Kardashian

Designing was always something I was interested in. I studied fashion design in high school as well as how to sew.

We were informed by the corporation that the 360 Next Generation Project was being studied and may not be built.

Kenneth Choi

Portland is the perfect weekend getaway. I studied acting in Portland and lived there for five years. It's a small city with so much to do. There's beautiful scenery, a great bar scene, and so many fabulous restaurants.

Tom Udall

One of the parts of this that I studied over in France when I went over on a governmental exchange, and I studied the whole nuclear waste issue.

Azim Premji

You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I know what a grind it is.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I watched Ali, studied Ali, and I studied Sugar Ray Robinson. I watched them display showmanship. I watched them use pizzazz, personality, and charisma. I took things from them and borrowed things from them because boxing is entertainment.

I had studied Russian in college. I had gotten into it first through literature and then just really found it kind of fascinating; of course, this was during the Cold War. So they were kind of the other great enemy that you grew up hearing about.

Abby Wambach

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.

Tahyna Tozzi

I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.

Thomas Heatherwick

I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt they didn't love the stuff buildings are made from.

Trai Byers

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

I studied technique for ten years, from age 7 to 17. I guess you could say I went more on the Stanislavski side than the Meisner side - there's always that wide divide among actors when it comes to technique.

Tom Lehrer

I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English, but Math had the fewest requirements, so I went with it. I knew I wanted to teach, and Math was my field, so I studied Math.

Tony Williams

I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.

We want to make sure we are moving effectively and quickly because this is such a critical issue. It's an issue that has been around a very long time across the country. It's been studied and people in the field have been talking about it a lot. There's been a lot of dialogue but not a lot of action.

Laura San Giacomo

I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.

Jack Canfield

For the first ten years after I got out of graduate school, I studied success. I read every book I could get my hands on and took every training I could find, and that allowed me to become an expert in this area. I learned how to create high self-esteem and success in my own life and in the lives of others.

I got a few books on tourist attractions, and I studied a National Art Museum book. I saw some of the real paintings. It's neat to see the real-life paintings up close.

Pope John

If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder

He was very bright and talented. What he did was learn his craft well. As he said, you can't be stupid and get eight gold records in the music market. ... He studied what he needed to do as a legislator. But he also had wonderful timing, and he was just naturally a humorous person, and when you combine that and the timing he learned from the entertainment industry, he was just a knockout.

He's come in and studied on his own and knows a lot of the offense. He's further along than I thought he'd be.

He is great, he runs hard. He's studied the offense pretty well. He sets up my blocks pretty well. I think he is going to gain a lot of yards. It is going to be fun to block for him. I have blocked for a lot of good running backs, and they can really make your job easier by setting up blocks, making the correct reads.