Mccollum Quotes & Sayings

While a student in McCollum's class, Jobs became friends with a graduate who was the teacher's all-time favorite and a school legend for his wizardry in the class. Stephen Wozniak, whose younger brother had been on a swim team with Jobs, was almost five years older than Jobs and far more knowledgeable about electronics. But emotionally and socially he was still a high school geek. — Walter Isaacson

We all tell our own stories the way we live our lives. My story is: Life is too short to not believe in fresh voices. I don't have Hollywood stars. I have great American artists. — Kevin McCollum

People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes are used to bail out governments on the other side of the continent. — David Cameron

Surely you can't be serious! — Michael McCollum

I love creating opportunities for people. I think it's my orphan mentality. — Kevin McCollum

Loved with obsessive devotion, hated with barely controlled fury. — Heather McCollum

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know. — Oscar Wilde

At my age, one must ration one's excitement — Julian Fellowes

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies. — Kevin McCollum

They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me. I want to do things
I want to walk the rain-soaked streets of London, and drink mint tea in Casablanca. I want to wander the wastelands of the Gobi desert and see a yak. I think my life's ambition is to see a yak. I want to bargain for trinkets in an Arab market in some distant, dusty land. There's so much. But, most of all, I want to do things that will mean something. — Lisa Ann Sandell

When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over. — Tony McCollum

The bravest warriors scream inside while fighting for what's right. — Heather McCollum

It takes a lot of nerve to bang your fist and demand tougher juvenile gun laws while doing nothing to enforce the ones that already exist. I must point out that doubling the size of the criminal code will not matter if the Clinton-Gore administration refuses to vigorously enforce these laws. — Bill McCollum

You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem. — Bill McCollum

There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment. — Bill McCollum

The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty. — Bill McCollum

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers. — Bill McCollum

We don't have that for the most part it is learned behavior and so the first part is we have to understand why people are behaving the way they are. Behavior is a result so we have to understand that before there is a result something is going on in here in the brain. — John Assaraf

You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room. — Jordan Peele

Please reach out for help, your voice will save you. — Brooke Axtell

I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet. — Roger Andrew Taylor

I don't believe in involving the government in enforcing or encouraging the lifestyle of gays and homosexuals. — Bill McCollum

Are not beauty and delicacy the same? — E. M. Forster

hurt much, I saw the boulder that knocked him — Heather McCollum

But I talk about my life anyway because if, on the one hand, hardly anything could be less important, on the other hand, hardly anything could be more important. My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours. Maybe nothing is more important than that we keep track, you and I, of these stories of who we are and where we have come from and the people we have met along the way because it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known to each of us most powerfully and personally. If this is true, it means that to lose track of our stories is to be profoundly impoverished not only humanly but spiritually. — Frederick Buechner

Between being praised and persecuted condoned and condemned I might understandably have become bewildered particularly at the brand of ethics sometimes displayed by the staunch defenders of Christianity. But of one thing I am sure: I am sure that I fought not only for what I earnestly believed to be right but for the truest kind of religious freedom intended by the First Amendment the complete separation of church and state. — Vashti McCollum

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial. — Bill McCollum

That smile could move mountains. It could also break hearts. — Kylie Scott

Life in all its brevity deserved to be lived, for the right reasons. Belonging Places. — M.R. Weston

trapped in his past, refusing to move forward. Unless this is a specific part of the character's arc, a character caught under this mountain of backstory can be painful to — Jordan McCollum

I respect a system that says we're going to put every bit of pressure on anybody we have to put it on to get to the drug dealer who is bringing his poison into the country. — Bill McCollum

Theater is about surprises and things that you haven't seen before on stage. — Kevin McCollum

[A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and is far in excess of what is needed to provide us with the security and protections we all want. — Bill McCollum

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Whether it's New York or somewhere else, the metaphor of 'Avenue Q,' which is the place you live when you can't afford to live anywhere else - and we've all been through that in our journey. As I always say, at any moment I could be back on Avenue Q if I pick the wrong show. — Kevin McCollum

Jobs took McCollum's class for only one year, rather than the three that it was offered. For one of his projects, he made a device with a photocell that would switch on a circuit when exposed to light, something any high school — Walter Isaacson

No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz. — John Leo

Film is much more of a brand business, whereas on Broadway, you can do complete unknowns and have hits. — Kevin McCollum