Quatermain League Quotes & Sayings

It isn't about the welfare check. It never was.
It isn't about sexual permissiveness, or personal morality, or failures in parenting, or lack of family planning. All of these are inherent in the disaster, but the purposefulness with which babies make babies in places like West Baltimore goes far beyond accident and chance, circumstance and misunderstanding. It's about more than the sexual drives of adolescents, too, though that might be hard to believe in a country where sex alone is enough of an argument to make anyone do just about anything.
In Baltimore, a city with the highest teen pregnancy rates in the nation, the epidemic is, at root, about human expectation, or more precisely, the absence of expectation. — David Simon

As an actor, if you decide that someone is bad ... you can't play bad, because even the worst person doesn't think what they're doing is bad. — Jaime Murray

OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer ... — Ambrose Bierce

There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that. — Zach Galligan

Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Women have made of themselves such a weapon to act upon the senses that a young man, and even an old man, cannot remain tranquil in their presence. Watch a popular festival, or our receptions or ball-rooms. Woman well knows her influence there. You will see it in her triumphant smiles. — Leo Tolstoy

NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government. — Bob Inglis

I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well. — Gilda Radner

I'm having a ball. I just walk in, make some funnies and walk out, no pressure. — Neil Patrick Harris

It took me forever, learning improvisation, because I had studied with Lee Strasberg - I dropped out of Chicago and went to his classes in New York for a couple of years, once or twice a week. What I didn't realize was I was learning directing because he wasn't all that good about acting, not for me. — Mike Nichols