All Quotes

As counterintuitive as it sounds, 'speed to fail' should be every entrepreneur's motto. Success isn't born wholly-formed like Venus from a clamshell; it's developed through relentless trial and error.
‐‐ Jay Samit

As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.
‐‐ Derek Bok

As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.
‐‐ Richard Holbrooke

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
‐‐ Daniel Defoe

As creative people, we should be really conscious of being of service in our work, being as generous as we can.
‐‐ Jami Attenberg

As creatives, it's a hard thing to push, to make something you're truly excited about, especially if you've written 100 different concepts and they keep getting shot down.
‐‐ Spike Jonze

As creators, we feel constant demand for innovation from the world. This puts immense pressure on the creative process and oftentimes can have a dampening effect.
‐‐ Dave Morin

As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can't pretend that these things don't affect these characters; they have to. If they don't, then you're essentially writing cartoons.
‐‐ Mark Billingham

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.
‐‐ James Ellroy

As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.
‐‐ Jon Meacham

As cute as baby clothes are... I try to buy less.
‐‐ Jessica Capshaw

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
‐‐ Arthur Conan Doyle

As cyberspace matures into a totally immersive experience, I'm betting it will turn out to be fully odor-enabled.
‐‐ Charles Platt

As cynical as I can be, there's always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale.
‐‐ Lily James

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.
‐‐ Gloria Swanson

As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.
‐‐ Damien Chazelle

As delineated in the biblical book of Leviticus, Israel's atonement was achieved, year after year, through the sacrifices brought on that day by the high priest.
‐‐ Meir Soloveichik

As demand shifts from offline retailers with limited shelf space to online channels with much larger assortments, the sales distribution is not getting fatter in the tail.
‐‐ Anita Elberse

As Democrats, we believe in giving every eligible citizen the opportunity to vote - whether it's early because they can't take off work on Election Day or absentee because they might have plans to be out of town.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

As Democrats, we have a patriotic duty and political imperative to lay out our ideas for protecting America.
‐‐ Evan Bayh

As designers, we have a great responsibility.
‐‐ Dieter Rams

As Development Secretary, I have seen in the developing world that climate change there is not a theory, is not a future threat: it is a contemporary crisis.
‐‐ Douglas Alexander

As different as me and Sigourney look is as different as these two characters are. I'm not filling her shoes. I'm doing a part that has the same monsters, but it's a completely different movie.
‐‐ Sanaa Lathan

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.
‐‐ Swami Vivekananda

As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

As digital equipment replaces the jobs of routine workers and lower-level professionals, technicians are needed to install, monitor, repair, test, and upgrade all the equipment.
‐‐ Robert Reich

As director of the CDC, one of the best parts of my job is announcing good news.
‐‐ Tom Frieden

As Director of the FBI, I am sworn to ensure that my special agents have what they need to protect themselves and the citizens of this country, and that they are trained to properly use and properly deploy that equipment in the right times and places.
‐‐ James Comey

As disabled people, we are taught from a young age that those who are attracted to us are to be regarded with suspicion.
‐‐ Stella Young

As disciplined as I am, I'm also a huge hedonist.
‐‐ Jason Bateman

As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.
‐‐ John Harwood

As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.
‐‐ Bernie Siegel

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.
‐‐ Clement Clarke Moore

As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition.
‐‐ Eugene Kennedy

As each year and debate passes, more broadband companies will start to see that their future lies not in restricting an open Internet but in betting on it.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

As early as 1681-82, a group of Abenakis had accompanied the French explorer La Salle on his historic voyage down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. By 1700, many Abenaki and Iroquois Indians spoke French and had some European education, and some were literate in French and Latin.
‐‐ Adrienne Mayor

As early as 1910, Ludwig Landsberg had suggested that I should examine the problem of splitting heavy oils and oil residues into benzines.
‐‐ Friedrich Bergius

As early as 1912, we worked on the problem of the hydrogenation of organic substances with the aid of highly compressed hydrogen.
‐‐ Friedrich Bergius

As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to Cologne, where over the years we settled down in a destroyed house.
‐‐ Heinrich Boll

As early as I can remember, I wanted to be a snowplow driver. When you grow up in the Rocky Mountains, like I did, you see the snow drifts piled up six feet high, and you're two feet, so it's impressive.
‐‐ Kip Thorne

As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.
‐‐ John Sergeant Wise

As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform.
‐‐ Juliette Lewis

As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States.
‐‐ Xi Jinping

As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals, rather than as members of a team working together for their patients. Both practices have made for serious problems.
‐‐ Atul Gawande

As ecstatic as I was at the birth of my daughter, I felt selfish bringing her, and later my son, into our screwed-up world.
‐‐ Jill Greenberg

As education and employment secretary in 1997, I inherited hundreds of schools where the roofs leaked, the windows rattled, and they relied entirely on outside toilets.
‐‐ David Blunkett