All Quotes

For Punjabis like me, we have to work a little harder on our body.
‐‐ Mona Singh

For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.
‐‐ Antonio Damasio

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
‐‐ Henri Frederic Amiel

For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.
‐‐ Teju Cole

For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discrimination against me as a woman scientist, but I hadn't produced a lot of science journal articles.
‐‐ Ada Yonath

For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.
‐‐ Taya Kyle

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
‐‐ Sally Ride

For quotes, I have one document for general quotes; the other for happiness-related quotes, which I use for the 'Moment of Happiness,' my daily emails of happiness quotes.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin

For Randy Neugebauer, the Texas Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee, the top sources of funding for his 2012 reelection campaign are from the insurance, banking, finance, securities and real estate industries.
‐‐ Gary Weiss

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
‐‐ Homer

For rather particular reasons, the interior-design industry moved more quickly than fashion to cope with AIDS. One reason is that it is made up of generally smaller businesses than fashion. The human losses were more quickly noticed.
‐‐ Michael Shnayerson

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

For reasons I can't remember, my family eventually stopped attending church, and I started questioning the Catholic Church's beliefs. I dabbled a little, but nothing stuck.
‐‐ Ann Hood

For reasons I didn't understand, I felt I needed to learn how to cook the food of France and knew that I was going to have to get over to the country: to Paris, I'd always assumed.
‐‐ Bill Buford

For reasons I don't fully understand, tragic love has a certain appeal.
‐‐ Christian Camargo

For reasons known to the Lord, some women are required to wait to have children. This delay is not easy for any righteous woman. But the Lord's timetable for each of us does not negate our nature.
‐‐ Sheri L. Dew

For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system whose ambitions are endless. They want to manage every second of our lives, every expenditure that we make. And the schools are the training ground to create a population that's easy to manage.
‐‐ John Taylor Gatto

For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
‐‐ Hamish Bowles

For reasons we don't have to get into, climate change has become an incredibly polarized issue in the United States. I think that is sad. My own personal view is that we're in a planetary emergency such has not been seen in 600,000 years.
‐‐ Marshall Herskovitz

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.
‐‐ Clara Zetkin

For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

For relaxation, I like to figure skate. Being on the ice and spinning and jumping, I feel very close to nature. In particular, I feel very close to Newton's laws of motion. On the ice, you can experience Newton's laws of motion in their purest, most elegant form.
‐‐ Michio Kaku

For Republicans, accepting responsibility means accepting punishment; for Democrats, it means only an admission of error and a suggestion they'll do better in the future. This double standard must end.
‐‐ Monica Crowley

For research, I like to go to the location of the places in the novels. The first thing that I do is involve my senses: I notice the smells; I open the trash cans and look at what people have thrown away.
‐‐ Natsuo Kirino

For resourceful tech founders, finding capital is rarely a problem; making the best use of it is another story. A few years slinging pepperoni pies and chicken wings - on tiny margins and with minimal investment - might not be the worst fiscal training.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes

For restaurants that have a minimum gratuity charge on large groups, the IRS will now count those tips as regular wages rather than traditional tips that we are all familiar with when we dine out. Ask any server, and they will tell you that this will directly affect their day-to-day lifestyle.
‐‐ Kevin McCarthy

For rich children, it'd be very easy and convenient never to take any steps to build an identity outside of your association with your family's wealth.
‐‐ Jamie Johnson

For right now, I still believe that college is what's going to make me the happiest girl.
‐‐ Missy Franklin

For right now, it really is the end. Hopefully in 10 years we'll all be married and have babies.
‐‐ Kelly Rowland

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.
‐‐ Matt Damon

For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone

For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with meaning as, for instance, 'Romeo' and 'Hamlet' are for us. Russians know whole stretches of it by heart, the way we know Shakespeare and Italians know Dante.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.
‐‐ Maurice Jarre

For Sarah Palin, the least experienced on the world stage, the stress of maintaining the fiction that she was qualified to be vice president sent her over the deep end almost immediately. She went off on a ferocious spending spree that might have killed a lesser woman. Katie Couric's straightforward questions unraveled her.
‐‐ Tina Brown

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
‐‐ Isaac Watts

For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.
‐‐ Shawn Wayans

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?
‐‐ Richard Courant

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.
‐‐ John Charles Polanyi

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.
‐‐ John Charles Polanyi

For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.
‐‐ Bruce Lipton

For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.
‐‐ Rebecca Skloot

For 'Seabiscuit', I interviewed 100 people I never met.
‐‐ Laura Hillenbrand

For security you need more soldiers, you need more policemen, you need more vehicles, you need more planes, you need more guns, you need more communications.
‐‐ Alvaro Uribe

For seven years after college, I was a waitress at the Buttercup Bakery in Berkeley, and from there I got a job at Merrill Lynch as an account executive, from where I went to vice president of investments for Prudential-Bache Securities. I started my own firm in 1987.
‐‐ Suze Orman

For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.
‐‐ Patrick Stewart

For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.
‐‐ Mira Nair

For seven years, I was in this fishbowl with this intensity, with all the stuff that went on with the Mets.
‐‐ Al Leiter

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
‐‐ David Antin

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
‐‐ James M. Barrie