Quotes About Dec

#1. Apparently tired of waiting for clear direction from Congress, the people of Puerto Rico have used the tools provided by their own local constitution to schedule a vote for Dec. 13 on the status of the island.

Dick Thornburgh

#2. Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

Eric Allin Cornell

#3. On Dec. 10, 2000, I learned I was free of cancer.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

#4. I then remained in Berlin until Dec. 1938, spending my time between pictures at my villa on the Riviera.

Pola Negri

#5. Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy -
No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#6. I grew up overnight on that day, Dec. 27, 2007.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

#7. hey its Uberunicorn here, im uploading my accountant for the first time! :D yay! im only uploading the books ive read in a short time: jan-dec, so i might not have so many books online j8st yet... - Uberunicorn, this one called cherub the recruit! Y X 3!!!

Robert Muchamore

#8. I can't see any reason that anyone would want a computer of his own," DEC president Ken Olsen declared at a May 1974 meeting where his operations committee was debating whether to create a smaller version of its PDP-8 for personal consumers.

Walter Isaacson

#9. Magic Kingdom's tree goes up on Dec. 9.

Julie Neal

#10. On Dec. 1, 1948, after the triumph of the revolution, which insured the final victory of the will of the people expressed through elections, President Jose Figueres abolished the army in my country.

Oscar Arias

#11. The cat is the beutiful devil. And here we can use the word, even without the "a."
- from a Dec. 21 1960, a letter to Sheri Martinelli
"On Cats

Bukowski

#12. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#13. KATH: (Katherine) BRENT, daughter of Ed: Brent, dee'd., 300 acs. Northumberland Co., N.E. upon Quiough 421 Riv., S.E. upon land of Capt. Giles Brent. 9 Dec. 1662, p. 79, (554). (Capt. Gyles Brent, 4 May 1653, assigned to sd. Edm: Brent & by him given by will to sd. Kath.)

Nell Marion Nugent

#14. We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20.

Zhang Ziyi

#15. Writers, naturally, dream of becoming authors. Authors dream of writing a bestseller. Bestselling authors want to write more bestsellers. And everyone hopes for big prizes. Why? Because we believe in magic. Publisher's Weekly magazine, Dec. 12, 2011

Amy Hill Hearth

#16. First, stop making formula films that people have already started rejecting.

This year, several big budget films haven't been entertained by the audience.Still stars continue to dictate terms.

The youth wants new good content.

From htcafe
Saturday,Dec.20,2014

Anurag Kashyap

#17. Home is meant to be a place, but for me Dec was my home. He was where I felt secure and loved, and time did nothing to diminish that. No matter what.

Sean Kennedy

#18. Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

Akhmad Kadyrov

#19. Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.

Ken Thompson

#20. On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#21. Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980,

Yoko Ono

#22. When you're the first in a new category, promote the category. In essence, you have no competition. DEC told its prospects why they ought to buy a minicomputer, not a DEC minicomputer. In

Timothy Ferriss

#23. I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words 'spiritual' or 'spirituality.'

[Interview, The New Yorker, Dec. 26, 2005]

Philip Pullman

#24. I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.
[Letter to Charles Darwin 12 Dec 1859]

Joseph Dalton Hooker

#25. From my friend, Brig. General Ezell Ware, Jr., CA Nat'l Guard, Dec.
Keep on going till you get there, then keep going.

Tracey Richardson

#26. You know what, my new mantra is this: ANT AND DEC. Ant and Dec. I might get their names tattooed on each wrist. Because they smile, and they never complain, and it seems to work for them and I wish I could be more like that.

Lily Allen

#27. It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.
[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]

William Shockley

#28. Pink Floyd in The 60s.
Piper at The Gates of Dawn (1967)
Singles and B-sides, outtakes
A Saucerful of Secrets
More
Ummagumma
Zabriskie Point (recorded Dec. 69)
Pretty damned impressive!

Sienna McQuillen

#29. Fantasy is unconstrained by truth.

Hilary Mantel

#30. He thinks of making his fortune. We all know that money sticks to yours hands.
No, It passes through them, alas.

Hilary Mantel

#31. So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

Winston S. Churchill