All Quotes

According to a new survey, 40 percent of adults in Mexico say they would move to the United States if they got a chance. The number would have been higher, but the other 60 percent already live here.
‐‐ Conan O'Brien

According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill.
‐‐ Ron Fournier

According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.
‐‐ Rick Perry

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.
‐‐ Grazia Deledda

According to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father.
‐‐ Sabine Baring-Gould

According to Colombia's respected Escuela Nacional Sindical, as of April 2015, 105 union activists had been executed in the four years since Clinton's free-trade treaty went into effect. That's just trade unionists.
‐‐ Greg Grandin

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.
‐‐ Bill Gates

According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.
‐‐ Alafair Burke

According to Gallup, Obama has already lost support among Jewish voters, down from 78 percent to 68 percent. If Romney shows that he is genuinely committed to Israel and that Obama is not, he'll make further inroads.
‐‐ David Limbaugh

According to God's word, everybody at some point is going to be given the opportunity to know the truth.
‐‐ Stephen Baldwin

According to God's word, we haven't done a very good job concerning our little ones, nor our teens.
‐‐ Vanity

According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
‐‐ Adolf Galland

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.
‐‐ Annie Dillard

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
‐‐ Naguib Mahfouz

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
‐‐ Allen Tate

According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay. Strictly speaking, the golem is not in the same class with Frankenstein's monster, because the golem is neither alive nor dead. He is, rather, the ancestor of all robots.
‐‐ Kage Baker

According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.
‐‐ Jim Fowler

According to liberals, I'm not supposed to exist. I know that I am going to be a target for the Left. I have something to say to them: 'Game On.'
‐‐ Mia Love

According to 'M' theory, ours is not the only universe. Instead, 'M' theory predicts that a great many universes were created out of nothing.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.
‐‐ Stanislav Grof

According to Mr. Obama, exceptionalism is so yesterday, an uncool, antiquated and ultimately destructive notion.
‐‐ Monica Crowley

According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes, I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something, I'm listening to God.
‐‐ Pete Seeger

According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an entertainer. I knew that from the start.
‐‐ Vesta Williams

According to my mother, positively no one, least of all herself, had even the faintest suspicion that she was heavy with child at the time of my birth.
‐‐ Preston Sturges

According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child. Not just try, but eat. I was even inclined to dig into stuff about which she expressed open disgust - lobster and other shellfish, and cheap Chinese food with pepper so hot it made your gums feel like a medieval dentist had been at them.
‐‐ Alice Dreger

According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.
‐‐ Questlove

According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ended up an opinionated psychiatrist, author and lecturer in the American Southwest, who communicates with spirits from a world that I believe is far more loving and glorious than our own.
‐‐ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
‐‐ Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied.
‐‐ Christopher Monckton

According to Netanyahu, he should rule like a Caesar, and the Knesset should be run by the tyranny of the majority.
‐‐ Ayman Odeh

According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it.
‐‐ Jay Leno

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.
‐‐ Mark Tobey

According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.
‐‐ Bob Riley

According to physical measurements, DNA chains are, on the average, 10,000 units long.
‐‐ Arthur Kornberg

According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Iraq, and that it would stay even is asked by the Iraqi government to leave.
‐‐ John Conyers

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.
‐‐ Ferdinand Mount

According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is right in the heart of this spiritual-creative belt of energy.
‐‐ Melody Beattie

According to some tallies, since 1776, the United States has been at war 93 percent of its existence, passing through a mere 21 years of peace.
‐‐ Greg Grandin

According to 'Star Trek' mythos, Starfleet Command - operational headquarters for a flotilla of craft that keep the cosmic peace - is located in San Francisco's Presidio, in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge (still carrying traffic, even in the 23rd century).
‐‐ Seth Shostak

According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time.
‐‐ Roy H. Williams

According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.
‐‐ Brendan I. Koerner

According to Ted Watt's 'The First Labor Day Parade,' the September date was chosen because it coincided with a Knights of Labor conference in New York, thus guaranteeing a sizable turnout for the festivities.
‐‐ Brendan I. Koerner

According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.
‐‐ Xavier Becerra

According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.
‐‐ Xavier Becerra

According to the belief, molecules closer together than 200 nanometers could not be told apart with focused light. This is because, in a packed molecular crowd, the molecules shout out their fluorescence simultaneously, causing their signal, their voices, to be confused.
‐‐ Stefan Hell

According to the Bible, sex isn't something sinful, but rather a wonderful gift from God to be thoroughly enjoyed within the boundaries of marriage.
‐‐ Ray Comfort

According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.
‐‐ Pema Chodron

According to the Burman system, there is no escape. According to the Christian system, there is. Jesus Christ has died in the place of sinners, has borne their sins; and now those who believe on Him, and become His disciples, are released from the punishment they deserve. At death, they are received into Heaven and are happy forever.
‐‐ Adoniram Judson

According to the committee's findings, a network of mobile missiles carrying the newest warheads could be tested by China this year and deployed as early as 2002.
‐‐ Charles Bass