Major Owens Quotes

We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.

Major Owens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 28, 1936 - October 21, 2013

Topics

EducationHopeChildrenNew YorkLaw

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

BeautyWelcomeGuestEverywhere

I feel less adrenaline in my body now, but more in my head. I tried to be at my best, and I succeeded.

Andriy Shevchenko

BestFeelBodyNowMoreHead

As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.

Andrea Arnold

SmallLongYouWayKeepYour

I've tried to create a comedy that doesn't look like any other comedy. Maybe traditionally in TV there has been a kind of formula that says, 'Oh, comedy has to look this way; it has to look super bright.' But the way we shoot 'Insecure' is motivated by the mental state of each of our characters.

Melina Matsoukas

ComedyLookCreateKindWayBright

I think too often in films, people think endings are a summation of plot, and I don't like that. Because once you know where you're going as an audience member, then it's like a video game. You're just waiting for them to get through the levels and beat the bad guy. And I just think that's boring.

Jeff Nichols

WaitingPeopleGameThinkYouBad

Like many insects, flies are most sensitive to green light. This means that they would see their world as 'black and white,' in that they can't see the multiple colors required to reconstruct a color image of the world. They do, however, have specialized cells that enable them to see ultraviolet wavelengths.

Michael Dickinson

Black And WhiteLightGreenColors

If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.

Steve Carell

SuccessGreatEarlyLevelComplete

Dodd-Frank has disproportionately burdened community banks, despite their having no role in the financial crisis.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

CommunityFinancialCrisisRole

My brother and I moved out to Hollywood initially to be a band, and where we lived, there was crime all over with my brother and I being the victims sometimes.

Troy Duffy

BrotherSometimesHollywoodCrime

The quality of one's emotional life changes over the years, doesn't it? But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In the larger scope of things, there's a sense of fulfillment to living a creative life. So I guess that's what keeps me going.

Tommy Lee Jones

LifeHopeQualityCreativeMeGreed

I can't imagine a world without music.

Toni Collette

MusicWorldWithoutImagine

As a woman, it seems you can't just be a comedian; you're always classed as something else, too, whether that's 'beautiful,' 'pint-sized,' 'larger-than-life' or in my case, 'Hattie Jacques-esque,' 'the giraffe,' 'big.'

Miranda Hart

BeautifulWomanYouAlwaysBigJust

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