All Quotes

As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder.
‐‐ Thomas R. Insel

As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.
‐‐ John Olver

As a scientist, of course, we have to believe there is no supernatural. There are only natural entities in the universe. And those are the things that we study as natural scientists.
‐‐ Greg Graffin

As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community.
‐‐ Saul Perlmutter

As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.
‐‐ Francis Collins

As a Scot, I instinctively feel a sympathy towards a culture which is based on generosity. It's very refreshing. Afghans think they're the best people in the world and their country is the best place in the world, and it's strange because you go there and it doesn't really look like it, and yet they assume that everybody else envies them.
‐‐ Rory Stewart

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that.
‐‐ Roy Clark

As a screenwriter and a half-Jew, I tend to look at the glass half-empty.
‐‐ John Francis Daley

As a screenwriter, there's so many layers you have to go through in order to tell your story. You have to write the script, get money for the script, shoot it, find distributors, make it into film festivals, all of that just to get to your audience.
‐‐ Morley

As a screenwriter, you have to let go, and you have to hand your baby over and let it go off into the world, which is entirely appropriate.
‐‐ Philippa Boyens

As a self-employed person, the idea of a break is completely foreign to me. If I completely switch off for any period of time, I know I'm going to pay for it several times over. For me, it's a lot better and easier to stay in touch and know what's going on seven days a week than to switch off.
‐‐ Stelios Haji-Ioannou

As a self-published author, you have the choice. Embrace the power to create a book that is truly yours. Don't be a whiner or a copycat.
‐‐ M. J. Rose

As a Senator I am opposed to duelling. As Ben. Wade, I recognize the code.
‐‐ Benjamin F. Wade

As a senator, I play an important role in crafting foreign policy.
‐‐ Tom Cotton

As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote specific projects I'm involved with, for reasons that probably don't need a lot of explanation.
‐‐ Patrick Nielsen Hayden

As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'
‐‐ Macaulay Culkin

As a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and public company CEO, nothing irks me more than when a startup founder talks about wanting to cash in with an initial public offering.
‐‐ Jay Samit

As a serial investor who has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for startups, I know that the business plans coming out of incubators tend to be vetted and more thoroughly validated. The incubator's input into your business plan will make you look far more polished and experienced - even if you have never run a business before.
‐‐ Jay Samit

As a seven-year-old, I remember when Etan Patz disappeared and was immortalized as the first missing-child face on a milk carton.
‐‐ Chelsea Cain

As a sexually fluid deaf man, I know that embracing all our identities is the way to thrive and to overcome the limitations and prejudices that surround us.
‐‐ Nyle DiMarco

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!
‐‐ Brene Brown

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.
‐‐ Jarvis Cocker

As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement.
‐‐ Daryl Hall

As a singer, I have won the highest honours in China. Actually I am like the panda: we are both national treasures.
‐‐ Peng Liyuan

As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write songs, I just hope I can stand in their company and not embarrass myself.
‐‐ David Nail

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.
‐‐ Ben Kingsley

As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
‐‐ Carly Simon

As a singer, if I'm in a room that is too cold, I kind of freak out, so I actually like the humidity, and I love the heat.
‐‐ Andra Day

As a singer, it's basic to preserve what I like to do, which is music, and also to remember my cradlesongs in Spanish.
‐‐ Thalia

As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.
‐‐ James Bay

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
‐‐ Bjork

As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements.
‐‐ Mel Torme

As a singer, you can't hear what's coming out of your throat; you're only hearing it from the inside, so you need a trusted person who knows how your voice works. It's like a car. You take it to the same mechanic because they know it inside out, and every time you get it back, it works fantastic.
‐‐ Stephen Costello

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

As a single mother of four, my mother taught me that you always want to show up strong for the moments that really matter with family, friends, and community. I now recognize how her strength helped shape the person I am today and the mother that I have become.
‐‐ Andie MacDowell

As a single mum I have to work, so I'm grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young.
‐‐ Minnie Driver

As a single parent, I had become tyrannical in order to survive, and anything I couldn't control caused me enormous anxiety. As a naturally untidy, disorganised man who never made lists or kept receipts, morphing into someone who could take care of a toddler on his own may have caused me to overcompensate a little.
‐‐ Simon Van Booy

As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
‐‐ Chanakya

As a small business or startup, one of the factors you should always consider when looking at a potential partnership is the incremental potential reach. Note that wider reach doesn't always mean a better partnership opportunity. Instead of sheer scale, take a look at which communities your potential partner can open up for you.
‐‐ Leah Busque

As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.
‐‐ Tim Scott

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
‐‐ John Greenleaf Whittier

As a small child, I could watch anything happen and tell a story, and it was funny.
‐‐ Ron White

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
‐‐ Charles Baudelaire

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.
‐‐ Jane Goodall

As a small child, me and my pals fantasised about one day owning an ice-cream van. To have ice creams on demand would have been a dream come true.
‐‐ Erin O'Connor

As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories.
‐‐ David Rose

As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.
‐‐ Hassanal Bolkiah

As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.
‐‐ Ben Katchor