Murnane Brandt Quotes

#1. At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank; ten years later, Ehud Olmert offered Abbas 93.6 percent with a one-to-one land swap.

Elliott Abrams

#2. I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.

Candice Olson

#3. Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people

Kofi Annan

#4. It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

Laurie Anderson

#5. No one must think that Newton's great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this [Theory of Relativity] or by any other theory. His clear and wide ideas will for ever retain their significance as the foundation on which our modern conceptions of physics have been built.

Albert Einstein

#6. Plenty of things in the universe are old, my dear. That's like saying Florida is a metaphor for hell because they're both hot - though your grandfather would agree wholeheartedly with that, I suppose.

Sammy Nickalls

#7. The Council is wrong. Yet, observe that none of us will risk telling it so, for fear of the consequences.

Mark Dunn

#8. I like throwing snowballs at small children.

Sam Mendes

#9. Please stop. If you keep chipping off little pieces of my heart, soon there will be no heart left with which to love you.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#10. I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel they have not said enough.

Mark Twain

#11. If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.

C. Everett Koop

#12. Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.

Liz Phair