Lourie's Quotes

#1. Dr. Lourie's determined and compassionate advocacy led to new and improved services for thousands of children and families across the nation ... the Lourie Center has rededicated itself institutionally to continuing his important work.

C. Everett Koop

#2. Cinema has become my life. I don't mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

Pedro Almodovar

#3. Most of our children are not prodigies, or even particularly gifted in any one field, but they all have the potential to shine as individuals in some way if given the right conditions.

Barbara Lourie Sand

#4. The issue, then, is not, What is the best way to teach? but, What is mathematics really all about? ... Controversies about ... teaching cannot be resolved without confronting problems about the nature of mathematics.

Reuben Hersh

#5. And that - he pointed ahead - is the road to Hell. That's where we're going. I have always heard it was paved with good intentions, said Simon

Cassandra Clare

#6. We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government.

John Abizaid

#7. The organization of the Soviet Union was directly modeled on that of the German postal service.

David Graeber

#8. The Lourie Center is an important model to consider ... (in) mental health care ... It is imperative that we use this knowledge to help ensure that every young child in our society has the opportunity to get an emotionally healthy start in life.

Tipper Gore

#9. I didnt know there were so many ways you could walk down stairs until the day we filmed Hermiones entrance into the Yule Ball Hall,

Emma Watson

#10. One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with the time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.

Thomas Sowell

#11. The Lourie Center provides much-needed services for our youngest and most vulnerable children and their families in our region. Their work and groundbreaking research help our community as well as the nation.

Doug Duncan

#12. The Lourie Center ... is a national pioneer in developing and applying early intervention techniques to diagnose and treat emotional and developmental problems in young children ...

Connie Morella

#13. Hollywood Regency is a label some people put on me, but I consider myself a modernist in that I always try to make the work feel fresh.

Kelly Wearstler

#14. Early on in my career, I'd go into the makeup trailer, and they'd spend an hour doing my makeup, and I would hate it. I'd go into the bathroom, wash it off and start over again, which took an enormous amount of time. So I just started doing it myself.

Donna Mills

#15. I don't think this one's business as usual. Me evil cunt sense is tinglin'.

Garth Ennis

#16. John Barrymore was a serious actor who did a great deal of research for all his parts, until, I guess, he was around 50. Then he started drinking heavily ... So he drank himself to death. It took him 10 years.

John Carradine

#17. I'm partial to the truth, Lo. Good, bad or indifferent. (Vane)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. Ll I can think about, every day, every waking minute since they drew Prim's name at the reaping, is how afraid I am.

Suzanne Collins