“I very much was inspired by Bill Bryson. He does cover science, but more often, it's a mixture of science and travel, and whatever he happens to be writing about - Shakespeare, Australia, the United Kingdom, or when he covers science in 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything' - he has an incredible ability to be both entertaining and enlightening.” WritingDoeHappensAbilityUnitedBillsInspiredIncrediblesKingdomsAustraliaEntertainingMixturesEnlighteningUnited Kingdom Author:Mary Roach
“No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.” WayHappensArtistUnitedDirectorsOrganizationExtraordinaryTrusted Author:John Schlesinger
“When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.” PeopleMadeIdeasDifferentStatesHappensFatherBeliefRealizingUnitedUnited StatesGeniusCompromiseMakeupSenateFoundingOur Founding FathersDifferent Ideas Author:Claire McCaskill
“It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.” WorldWellsStatesHelpingHappensUnitedKnownUnited StatesCatastropheWell Known Author:Morgan Freeman
“Americans are brought up to believe they can grow up to be the president of the United States. Brits are told, It won't happen to you.” BelieveStatesHappensGrowsPresidentUnitedUnited StatesGrowing UpBrits Author:Ricky Gervais
“It would convert the Treasury of the United States into a manufactory of paper money. It makes the House of Representatives and the Senate, or the caucus of the party which happens to be in the majority, the absolute dictator of the financial and business affairs of this country. This scheme surpasses all the centralism and all the Caesarism that were ever charged upon the Republican party in the wildest days of the war or in the events growing out of the war.” WarCountryStatesHappensHouseUnitedPartyUnited StatesGrowingEventsRepublicanPaperAbsolutesMajorityAffairFinancialSenateRepresentativesDictatorSchemesRepublican PartyTreasuryHouse Of RepresentativesCaucusPaper Money Author:James A. Garfield
“Those individuals from the far left, and I'm talking about the Hollywood elitists and the United Nations and those individuals want us to believe it's because we are contributing CO2 to the atmosphere, that's causing global warming. It's all about money. I mean, what would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if all the sudden people weren't scared anymore?” PeopleIfsWantBelieveMeanHappensIndividualLeftNationsUnitedTalkingHollywoodScaredWeatherAtmosphereGlobal WarmingUnited NationsWant URatingContributingElitistCo2 Author:James Inhofe
“In the United States 95% of the people who win elections have the most money. That's it. So, money is a big part of elections. But that happens all the time.” PeopleStatesBigsHappensWinningUnitedUnited StatesElection Author:George Clooney
“The New World Order run by the United Nations ain't gonna happen. Because they've shown their hand, and at least some corner of Congress and the American people are awake to it: they've blown it all.” PeopleWorldHandsHappensRunningOrderNationsUnitedCongressCornersAwakeNew WorldUnited NationsNew World OrderWorld Order Author:Michael Moriarty
“I have always considered myself to be very fortunate. To play for the biggest club in the world, which also happens to be the team I supported as a boy, means I have never had to consider changing away from Manchester United.” WorldMeanPlayHappensUnitedBoysTeamClubsFortunateManchesterManchester United Author:Ryan Giggs
“In the past when a country became as powerful as the United States, other countries would band together to clip its wings. But that isn't happening now and I don't think it's not going to happen, because other countries are not threatened by us, and they secretly appreciate the services that we provide, even if they don't usually say so.” IfsThinkingCountryStatesHappensTogetherPastUnitedPowerfulUnited StatesBandHappeningsAppreciateWingsOther CountriesThreatenedClip Author:Michael Mandelbaum
“Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes all its elements. Faith is the most centered act of the human mind. It is not a movement of a special section or a special function of man's total being. They all are united in the act of faith.” MindHumansHappensFaithUnitedSpecialMovementPersonalityElementsConcernUltimateFunctionHuman MindPersonal LifeSections Author:Paul Tillich
“One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.” IfsStatesHappensPresidentUnitedUnited States Author:William Howard Taft
“What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.” NeedsBelieveStatesHappensI BelieveUnderstandingUnitedUnited StatesPartners Author:Oliver Stone
“Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine is too complicated for all the elements to be able to enter into the analytical comparison we wish to make, we separate the more inconvenient [elements], we substitute others for them, less troublesome but also less real, and we are surprised to arrive, notwithstanding a painful labour, only at a result contradicted by nature; as if after having disguised it, cut it short or altered it, a purely mechanical combination could give it back to us.” IfsGivingShouldRealSometimesHappensAbleWishUnitedResultsCuttingElementsPainfulComplicatedPhysicsCommandCombinationLabourComparisonSubstitutesGeometryAlteredTroublesomeInconvenient Author:Jean le Rond d'Alembert
“An institution that...would permit Iraq, a terrorist state that refuses to disarm, to become soon the chair of the United Nations Commission on Disarmament, and which recently elected Libya - a terrorist state - to chair the United Nations Commission on Human Rights of all things, seems not to be even struggling to regain credibility. That these acts of irresponsibility could happen now, at this moment in history, is breathtaking.” HumansWarStatesMomentsSeemsHappensNationsUnitedStruggleRightsAll ThingsInstitutionsHuman RightsIraqRefuseTerroristChairsPermitUnited NationsCredibilityDisarmamentLibyaBreathtakingIrresponsibility Author:Donald Rumsfeld
“There's a longstanding myth about the United States that is still very prevalent in Europe [despite recent developments]. Historically the "America" of this myth is an incredible human adventure and an experiment in political democracy. But at the same time, or so we're told, it's the land of extremes where the worst can happen.” HumansStillsStatesHappensAmericaPoliticalUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyLandWorstAdventureDevelopmentEuropeIncrediblesExtremesMythExperimentsDespite Author:Bruno Dumont
“I came to The United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys. But I've been doing that now for 13 years so when I was offered the chance to do some comedy, I grabbed it.” MenYearsLooksStatesPlayHappensWantedGuyChanceUnitedRolesUnited StatesComedyAgentsAustraliaNastyBad Guys Author:Alan Dale
“We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what's going to happen when they see a documentary they don't like or news reports they don't like."” IfsStatesHappensAbleUnitedUnited StatesImagineNewsFolksReportsCensorshipDictatorDocumentariesIntimidatingImposingSatirical Author:Barack Obama