American Quotes

The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.

If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.

It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.

When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true that when the rich are convinced they're going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don't spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spendi

The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas.

The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy.

Sexy ain't guys like Churchill and Lincoln.

My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.

It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service.

It's not as if I can just pop on my show and be rude if I've had a hard day.

It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time.

If Edwards gained 60 pounds and lost all his hair, he'd look like Dick Cheney!

I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.

I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it.

I'm not wedded to covering the markets. I'm intrigued by the markets. If I can connect Main Street with Wall Street, then I've succeeded.

I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.

I'll rail against what I think is wrong.

I want to democratize business news.

I feel strongly that I need to try to make my shows as real as possible. What you see is what you get.

I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.

We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.

A lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it's not my fault I like to eat.