3 December 2020 Douglas Adams If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
3 December 2020 Cathy McMorris Today, over half of China’s undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America’s undergraduates pursue these schools.
3 December 2020 Sydney J. Harris Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
3 December 2020 Ray Charles Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.
3 December 2020 Anne McCaffrey I also don’t have organized religion on Pern. I figured – since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing – that religion was one problem Pern didn’t need.
3 December 2020 Mary McAleese People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about – making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.
3 December 2020 Jackie Stewart It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.
3 December 2020 Warren G. Bennis Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
3 December 2020 Ron Kind Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers’ ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.
3 December 2020 Christian Bale My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character’s complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism – that’s what I was saying about the difference between the character’s message and the film’s message.
3 December 2020 Liberty Hyde Bailey One’s happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
3 December 2020 Elinor Wylie In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
3 December 2020 Beverly Cleary When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
3 December 2020 Katharine McPhee My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
3 December 2020 Condoleezza Rice The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer – we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them – we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.
3 December 2020 John Cleese I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.
3 December 2020 Rosa DeLauro 1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
3 December 2020 Demetri Martin Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.
3 December 2020 Charles Babbage A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.
3 December 2020 Richard Hammond I mostly drive around in a Fiat 500 TwinAir, and that’s a pretty small car!
