Byford Duncan Quotes

#1. The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.

Jon Appleton

#2. I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

Lord Byron

#3. Fear is a weapon of mass destruction.

Dennis Kucinich

#4. The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#5. The blowing mist, filled with the light of the moon, was seeking to swallow the lamps of the heavens.

Anne Rice

#6. It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.

Thomas Keating

#7. I will have you know I practiced that speech. In front of a mirror before you got here."
"So what do you think it meant?"
"I'm not sure," Jace admitted, "but I know I look damn good delivering it.

Cassandra Clare

#8. I think every time you go to do something, it's a challenge. Somebody said to me, 'You've done it all. If you could do anything right now, what would you do?' I said, 'I'd do everything I did better.'

Liza Minnelli

#9. America entered the Lebanese Civil War. It paid the price. Two hundred marines were killed by one Shiite. Reagan pulled the troops and avoided discussing Lebanon. Lebanon, like AIDS, was hardly ever mentioned by our president.

Rabih Alameddine

#10. Married women are kept women, and theyare beginning to find it out.

Logan Pearsall Smith