Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eileen collins

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

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.

Pete Seeger

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.

Scott Adsit

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.

Ken Simonson

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

Steven Blum

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.

Jim Clyburn

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.

George Stigler

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.

Dave Johnson

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.

John Berger

Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing.

Neal Thigpen

He drifted away like he lost every thought he had. He was lost in space.

Jim Calhoun

You kind of drifted on me. When am I going to get you back?

Ron Gardenhire

It drifted down, and he just went and got it.

Randy Bachman

I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring.

Michael Sata

Africa, and Zambia in particular, drifted away from the West for a long time, and we have to reconcile.

Barry Humphries

I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!

Kim Miller

The smoke has drifted farther south. In some areas, the visibility is about 10 feet. As soon as the visibility improves we will reopen those roadways.

Michael Cahill

It took her a while to pick up from that and she was probably only going to win by a neck but when she drifted back to the inside and found the rail she really put her mind on the job.

Charles Edward Merriam

[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of the function of the state. The theory that the state originates in an agreement between men was assailed by the German thinkers and the historical, organic, evolutionary idea substituted for it.

Alan Watts

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

Alan Paton

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

Alan Moore

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

Alan Moore

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Alan Bennett

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Bennett

My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.

Alan Ball

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Alan Alda

Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.