Officiator Quotes & Sayings

I'd like to thank the academy and I'd like to thank my mother and I'd like to thank my mother again, because I forgot to thank her last year. — James Spader

Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much. — Horace

We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. — Carl Sagan

When she lets go of me I feel that I don't need to offer to become a different person, it has happened already. — High Fidelity

If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live. — Martin Luther King Jr.

And so, standing before the aforesaid officiator, the two swore that at every other time of their lives till death took them, they would assuredly believe, feel, and desire precisely as they had believed, felt, and desired during the few preceding weeks. What was as remarkable as the undertaking itself was the fact that nobody seemed at all surprised at what they swore. — Thomas Hardy

There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today ... and will come around for me tomorrow. — Charles Dickens

Squaring numbers is a symmetrical process that I like very much. And when I divide one number by another, say, 13 divided by 97, I see a spiral rotating downwards in larger and larger loops that seem to warp and curve. The shapes coalesce into the right number. I never write anything down. — Daniel Tammet

Are you basically a pretty good, pretty decent person? Says who? Says you? Says your 'rents? Says your sibs? — James Patterson

It is no exaggeration to say that genes are essential to nearly every aspect of memory and the process of learning; without them, learning itself would not exist. — Gary F. Marcus