Newsday Quotes

#1. Growing up, 'Newsday' was the paper that was delivered to my doorstep every day.

Kevin Connolly

#2. I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section.

Allan Sloan

#3. Yeah, says the Newsday reporter, he's a real pacifist. He's the Gandhi of Gangsters.

J.R. Moehringer

#4. Einstein was right about relativity, but even he would have had a difficult time applying relative valuation in today's stock markets.

Aswath Damodaran

#5. Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.

Richard Leakey

#6. Momentarily a wing of zodiacal radiance could be seen, like a halo over the rising fire-disk.

Poul Anderson

#7. The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

Publilius Syrus

#8. Servants, in my experience, always know everything.

Megan Whalen Turner

#9. There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.

Stephen Colbert

#10. It's not the strongest or the most intelligent who survive, but those most adaptive to change. Over the past 10 years, the need for, and focus on, adaptability has accelerated.

Kenneth I. Chenault

#11. But the cost of steeling yourself against grief was that you had to steel yourself against joy, as well.

Sophie Littlefield

#12. Leah has red hair, but Olivia has a red personality. And as far as I'm concerned, red belongs to the love of my life.

Tarryn Fisher

#13. The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

#14. Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.

Vera Wang

#15. Not only do I know how to milk a cow, but I know how to herd a bunch of cows, too, which is a life skill that I think may come in handy someday.

Martina Mcbride

#16. My brother Max nodded knowingly. Head injuries can answer a lot of questions that genetics are just too afraid to ask.

Andrew Smith

#17. Friends may come and go, but barbecues accumulate.

Thomas Jones

#18. I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.

Anne McCaffrey