Nomenclature Worksheet Quotes

#1. I had no idea what I was gonna do after I got my degree in philosophy in 1940. But what I did know was at that time, if you were a Chinese-American, even department stores wouldn't hire you. They'd come right out and say, 'We don't hire Orientals.'

Grace Lee Boggs

#2. Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.

John Hope

#3. A fact about photography: we can look at people's faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states - for a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.

Adam Gopnik

#4. While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

Tom Harkin

#5. The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word 'rather' in a sentence.

Christian Finnegan

#6. Mary [Tyler Moore] was absolutely brilliant ... She is a fabulous actress. She can do anything.

Gavin MacLeod

#7. As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use.

Eric Balfour

#8. You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.

John Ruskin

#9. I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.

Andrew Marr

#10. I come from a very big family, and I grew up in restaurants.

Gloria Votsis