Famous Quotes & Sayings

If 'Catcher in the Rye' were released today, academy members would look at the book and consider it a dime-store paperback. The academy is totally out of step with the viewing public. Every report I heard this morning listed the same old boring shows.

Rick Dickson

I can't say enough about the tremendous outpouring of support we have received from every single person we have spoken to over the last several days. Our priority was to continue to provide a high quality academic and athletic experience for our athletes. This plan could not have come together without their help.

Morris Chestnut

I can't say that we went through the academy because we weren't being tested and we knew we had a job, but we did set some fires and put them out.

Growing up, it was always academics first, then basketball. If you would ask me to choose between the two, then it would be academics because I know anything can happen tomorrow. I can get injured or something and then basketball is over but I'll always have my mind.

I have chosen to continue my athletic career in football and baseball as well as my academics at Louisiana State University.

Jon Huertas

I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it.

I don't believe anyone is coming to school here unless first and foremost Keene State offers the academic program the student is interested in.

I dare say there has never been an assemblage of so many distinguished Francis Marion and Revolutionary War scholars outside an academic context in the state. We had some of the top people on the Revolutionary War and Marion involved in the discussions.

I am excited to bring these six young women to the IU Bloomington campus to help the Hoosiers compete for the Big Ten title. They bring size, speed, skill and a high level of experience. Coupled with their academic prowess and wonderful personalities, they will play a huge role next season.

Sue Kelly

I am committed to ensuring that every child has the opportunity for academic success.

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing-without the traditional interruption of academic training.

Samuel J. Palmisano

IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.

The provost is chiefly responsible for all academic affairs. Deans report to the provost.

Anil Kumble

The prototype of the academy is ready. We will have sports icons from other games too for imparting the best of skills and techniques to youngsters. Besides fitness, the focus will be on consistency in performance to remain on top in a competitive environment.

Andrew Martin

We shouldn't have to worry about those teams, but we really have to after (Columbus) Academy upset us (59-55 in overtime Feb. 1) last year. We thought it was a sure win and lost control of the league title.

Seth Shostak

It's hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we're woven into the enormous tapestry of existence. Where did our universe come from? How special is our world, and how special are we? We allocate tens of billions of dollars annually to NASA, NSF and academia in search of the answers.

Stephen Mangan

When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted to. Afterwards, I went to Cambridge to study law - in a way, I was carrying the academic hopes of my family, as Mum and Dad left school at 14.

Iain McGilchrist

I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain.

Fritz Haber

The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen.

Fred Gwynne

I decided to take a stab at acting. I entered the American Academy of Dramatic Art, where one teacher told me I'd never make it - I was too tall.

Flea

Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school.

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

Donald Knuth

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

Clint Eastwood

We don't even know who's in the Academy.

Harold E. Varmus

In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and then joined Ira Pastan's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health as a Clinical Associate.

Harold E. Varmus

I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

Kathy Griffin

I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'Vanity Fair' party any time soon. I'm not somebody who, no matter where I go, there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world, and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party.

Trey Parker

I was like, 'We're going to get nominated for an Academy Award for this.' I really was, ... I even told him.

Eric Olsen

I was looking for the complete package. I felt that it was everything I was looking for from the academic standpoint, the coaches and the environment. Plus, it had that mystique and tradition there. It was just awesome.

I would say that in my 21 years, the number of those schools has quadrupled, and I would put schools in quotation marks. They're not all academic institutions.

Ken brings a strong and varied background in business, accounting, academics and administration to his new role,

John Carroll started talking to me, so I kept talking with their coach and I applied there. The coach said, 'I want you over here next year.' It's a smaller program with high academics and a good wrestling program. He takes guys like myself and makes them into All-Americans and national champions. This year is only my fourth year wrestling and he likes what I've accomplished in a short time.

I think it's a great advantage. It allows you to get a gauge of where you're at, get some people healthy, either those who were injured in camp or in the game, and it allows you to settle into an academic routine.