Quotes of: Capitol-hill Keyword

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

Ang Lee

At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.

Laurie Garrett

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

Franklin Pierce Adams

We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts.

Timothy Noah

I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.

Brock Yates

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

Mignon McLaughlin

Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers.

Kimberly Quinn

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

P. J. O'Rourke

My trademark at CNN was really asking insightful questions and making sure people are understanding the connections in humanity, and I think that is the core of education.

Soledad O'Brien

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

Aime Cesaire

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.

Chris Wallace

I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.

Ernie Pyle

'One Tree Hill' was a great learning opportunity for me, and I'm excited to go and apply that elsewhere and see where I end up.

Hilarie Burton

I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.

Jill Abramson

Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression.

James Surowiecki

I don't like being flattered. It doesn't suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement.

Martin Parr

Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.

Robert Gottlieb

The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do with them.

Robert Gottlieb

In the Communist era, excrement took on political importance, because Party policy decided excrement was essential for the Great Agricultural Leap Forward.

Rose George

Vegetable box schemes, local greengrocers, farmers' markets and organic stores are a great place to source package-free foods.

Sheherazade Goldsmith