Niaaa Conference Quotes & Sayings

I have never had better opinions of woman than I had of her — Thomas Cranmer

The founders proscribed the establishment of a state religion, but they did not countenance the elimination of religion from the public square. We are a nation 'Under God' and in God, we do indeed trust. — Mitt Romney

Answered his telephone himself if he happened to be at hand when it signalled because each call offered good odds that he would be justified in being gratifyingly rude to some stranger for daring to invade his privacy without cause - "cause" by Harshaw's definition, not by the stranger's. — Robert A. Heinlein

I believe technology should give us superpowers. Everyone should have the opportunity to learn to think, analyze, and create with technology. — Hilary Mason

A troop surge in Baghdad would put more American troops at risk to address a problem that is not a military problem. — Norm Coleman

Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I don't really know about its value to the student. I don't mean it's useless. But I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. — Chinua Achebe

A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot. — Emily Dickinson

Was tall in a way she associated with fun-house mirrors: rail-thin legs and arms that went on forever. — Joe Hill

All our lives are miraculous if only we are willing to view them that way. The world keeps on pulsing new amazements, providing a constant series of epiphanies, illuminations, peak experiences. If, out of inattention, cynicism or a moribund view of the world, we don't respond to the wondrous, then we get what we expect: a confirmation that life is unsurprising. — Pierre Delattre

... all the king's doctors and all the king's pills couldn't make Frank's waking nightmares go away. — David Wong

High expectations and belief in people leads to high performance so very often belief creates fact. — Paul Hersey

Kindnesses have wings and roots ... wings that never droop, and roots that never die. — Mary Louisa Molesworth

I was 3 years old and Mary Poppins [1964] made an impression on me that was seismic, apparently. I fell into some kind of total creative, imaginative rapture over that movie that propelled this industry of Mary Poppins drawings, plays, performances - just an obsessive, creative reaction to it. — Todd Haynes

I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to the emotional core of me. — Sally Mann