Squawked Def Quotes & Sayings

When you own your choices, you own their consequences. — Jack Welch

It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you. — Dawn Fraser

We made 16 episodes of Cracker and I loved doing the show, but unfortunately no one was watching us. — Josh Hartnett

Today's children will become tomorrow's civilization. — L. Ron Hubbard

None can teach admirably if not loving his task. — Amos Bronson Alcott

There are other dimensions of biotechnology. If you think of biotechnology like the Internet, it's not a category - it's an infrastructure that can be deployed to sustain or disrupt. In health care, the most complex problems at the high end have to be dealt with in a problem-solving mode by the best, most experienced physicians you can find. — Clayton Christensen

We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure. — Carly Simon

If the wishes came true, they came true in terrible ways. Wishes were dangerous things. That was the idea you got from fairy tales. — Kate DiCamillo

I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence. — Kevin J. Anderson

There are a few places on the East Coast, and maybe Los Angeles, where women understand evening gowns. The rest of the country still has far to go. — Rabih Alameddine

You've got to understand that the world's full of men who are little better than animals ... Problem is that a man is different from an animal. In the quiet afterward we know when we've done wrong. — David Anthony Durham

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something. — Aldous Huxley

For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing. — Brendan O'Carroll

I came from a traditional family, and it was an exciting but challenging transition to move to America and live on my own. The world around me was suddenly so different. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

A dollar for a human bought a loaf of bread that was eaten in a few bites. The same dollar for Wee Mad Arthur bought the same-sized loaf, but it was food for a week and could then be further hollowed out and used as a bedroom. — Terry Pratchett