All Quotes

A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.
‐‐ Brian Greene

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
‐‐ Hugo Black

A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none.
‐‐ Robert E. Lee

A United States collapse would be much different than a Greece collapse. Greece can collapse, and there's a ripple. We collapse, and the world feels it.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.
‐‐ Joe Bob Briggs

A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.
‐‐ Paul Davies

A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.
‐‐ Clark Kerr

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.
‐‐ David Horowitz

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
‐‐ John Ciardi

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
‐‐ Richard Hofstadter

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

A useless life is an early death.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.
‐‐ Vittorio Alfieri

A utility can handle up to 20% of production from solar and that helps the grid because it produces electricity when needed. Solar power peaks in the middle of the day and that's also when air conditioning is running and businesses are operating, so power production matches usage.
‐‐ Elon Musk

A utopian future for the Internet could be secured if the heavy-duty influencers - and the grassroots influencers tweeting along - can create a new global organization peopled with defenders of Internet freedom.
‐‐ Naomi Wolf

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.
‐‐ Robert Smithson

A vacation for me is when I'm home and I'm writing.
‐‐ Mary Pope Osborne

A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by a mother who sees that the others get it.
‐‐ Marcelene Cox

A vacation from school should not mean hunger for our children.
‐‐ Dina Titus

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.
‐‐ Robert Orben

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
‐‐ Earl Wilson

A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.
‐‐ Max von Sydow

A vaccine introduces a small amount or a tempered version of the virus into the body - just enough to that the body is able to recognize it and deal with it when it encounters it again in the future.
‐‐ Eula Biss

A vaccine that prevented tuberculosis would merit a Nobel Prize, but it's just very difficult to develop.
‐‐ Tom Frieden

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
‐‐ Tennessee Williams

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
‐‐ Jean de la Bruyere

A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.
‐‐ Dean Ornish

'A Valley Without Wind' takes the idea of dungeon crawls and throws it on its head by casting you as a magic user in this 2D platforming labyrinth of a world. From NPC's to rescue, spells to learn, and a whole civilization you practically need to build back from scratch, this adventure takes to a new world where few other games dare to go.
‐‐ Rob Manuel

A value is valuable when the value of value is valuable to oneself.
‐‐ Dayananda Saraswati

A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations.
‐‐ Gary Miller

A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.
‐‐ Tim Holden

A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.
‐‐ Robert Casey

A vast majority of Republicans are on the record saying that they believe the Violence Against Women Act should be reauthorized. Let me be clear: I believe that Violence Against Women Act must be reauthorized.
‐‐ John Cornyn

A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.
‐‐ Neal Barnard

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.
‐‐ David Brenner

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
‐‐ Samuel Goldwyn

A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.
‐‐ Vincent Bugliosi

A very big passion of mine and that of the people that run our production is finding factories that have fair labor practices and treating them more like partners in our family than people just who are going to produce for us.
‐‐ Blake Mycoskie

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.
‐‐ Greg Lynn

A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me.' But somehow you do.
‐‐ Athol Fugard

A very common thing these days is people show up and they ask us in the band to sign with a Sharpie right on their skin and they go get it tattooed the next day. Then they'll show up at another show and they'll have their tattoo.
‐‐ Jared Leto

A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care.
‐‐ Shane Leslie

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
‐‐ E. O. Wilson

A very good editor is almost a collaborator.
‐‐ Ken Follett

A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing - much more than on its present or past - and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed.
‐‐ Dave Morris