Ed Advance Quotes & Sayings

With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many. I think also the working few ought not to be embaras[s]ed by the idle many and further I think the idle many ought not to be honoured by association with the working few.-I do not think that my patience has ever come nearer to an end than when compelled to hear ... long rambling malapropros enquiries of members who still have nothing in consequence to propose that shall advance the business. — Michael Faraday

If God simply handed us everything we want, He'd be taking from us our greatest prize - the job of accomplishment — Frank A. Clark

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled. — Mark Twain

I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don't have to be captain, but I do want to play on a winning team. — Jane Pauley

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason. — Nelly

As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one." — Robert Baden-Powell

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future. — Joan D. Vinge

The brain wasn't engineered to deal with that rarefied level of dumbness. — Tim Dorsey

I've always been a bit flip. — David Bailey