Courses Quotes · Page 279

George Bush says, 'Gore's book needs a lot of explaining.' Of course, Bush says that about every book.

— Bill Maher

When a trout rising to a fly gets hoooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freeely, he begins…

— Karl A. Menninger

Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation,…

— Peter Drucker

Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private.

— Shawn Amos

My grandfather was a prominent executive at Chevron (oil), and of course my father is a fairly radical and progressive environmentalist. But…

— James Redford

I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold,…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

I don't do anything or have any magical secret or something, other than drinking baby's blood, of course.

— John Stamos

[The Theosophical Society] are ideologues in terms of the way they present the material. That's one of the reasons why, when they…

— Paul Laffoley

Of course you can't stop. It is physically impossible for the human mind to think of nothing. The soul craves emotion, and…

— Dan Brown

I found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny,…

— Emma Donoghue

Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity,…

— George Gilder

I assumed just from being around, all these years, that people would immediately glom on to, Well, it's a departure, and it's…

— Chang-Rae Lee

By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is…

— William Dean Howells

To have a successful team, you have to have great players of course - but you have to have good personalities and…

— David Beckham

The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a…

— Phyllis Bottome

I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very…

— James Rothman

Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls…

— e. e. cummings

Every one is made of matter, and matter is continually going through a chemical change. This change is life, not wisdom, but…

— Phineas Quimby

The real challenge is to give a really nuanced performance and really push myself, to make sure that we see a very…

— Diane Kruger

Demanding immediate success invariably leads to playing the fads or fashions currently performing well rather than investing on a solid basis. A…

— David Dreman

MacGyver of course, that's probably my favorite show of all time, because it was a guy who was so, so smart and…

— Rhys Darby

Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood…….…

— Jack Welch

Wilhelmine Germany was hostile to the expression of same-sex love - and, of course, Mann would have known of the fate of…

— Philip Kitcher