Jerome Wiesner Quotes

#1. I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women writers working] in film.

Emma Donoghue

#2. Rock and roll's relatively new, in the sense of the Fifties, Sixties, right? They invented the first sort of rock stars, and they took it to excess, and then the excess became bitter, tormented. Then it became okay to succeed.

Albert Hammond Jr.

#3. It is no longer a question of controlling a military-industrial complex, but rather, of keeping the United States from becoming a totally military culture.

Jerome Wiesner

#4. I wish I'd known you when you were alive.

Leonard Louis Levinson

#5. That's the trouble with memories: everything seems much more fantastical with a childhood lens to filter out the limitations of reality.

Brielle A. Marino

#6. History had singled out the United States to play a unique role as the chief instrument for securing the advance of freedom, which found its highest expression in democratic capitalism.

Andrew J. Bacevich

#7. It is not fly fishing if you are not looking for answers to questions.

Norman Maclean

#8. Getting an education at MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose.

Jerome Wiesner

#9. Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers.

Jerome Wiesner

#10. Why must she dress that way? I think she's confused about her gender.

Tim Gunn

#11. Nothing hinders morale more than when team members with separate agendas are pulling against one another.

Andy Stanley

#12. I don't know if I have a legacy, but I will say that I'm proud of the fact that I'm from a small town in a small state and I've had more than a small impact.

Tinker Hatfield