Emile Durkheim Quotes

The great esteem in which the Nobel prizes are universally held is due to the fact that for several generations they have been given purely on scientific merit and not through lobbying and politicking. I do hope that it will stay this way, and the prizes will never be given according to the number of votes in live TV contests!

I'm very fast.

I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.

When I go back to NFL functions today, I feel a bit on the outside looking in. I played 13 years in the NFL, and I loved it - made a Pro Bowl and went to the playoffs - but I always felt like I was having to knock the door down to get in.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Somehow, it seems that the sadder a song is, the happier I feel. The release of emotions that many would label as "negative" is actually a liberating process for me.

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

When I pray, I feel close to my Father in Heaven, and I feel His guiding hand in my life. If there is one thing I have learned, it is this: God knows us, He loves us, and He is waiting to help us.

I've been very active in Missouri.

My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.

There are actors in this town who made important careers for a long, long period just by taking the parts that Cary Grant turned down.

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

My 6 years with Murdoch were pivotal for my entire research career.

Michael Emerson is just a prince. There's something about him. He's so sweet. I don't know how to describe it. There's something about him that's a bit royal.

It's hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back and to ignore certain things that are being written.

I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

There is no 'I.' That's an illusion we've got to get beyond.

While the United States has never decreed that everyone has a 'right' to a telephone, we have come close to this with the notion of 'universal service' - the idea that telephone service (and electricity, and now broadband Internet) must be available, even in the most remote regions of the country.