Facility Quotes

• Magical music never leaves the memory.

  Thomas Beecham

  Memories, Inspirational Music, Great Music

  1953 Television broadcast,17 Nov.

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• Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "OpenGL Shading Language". Book by Randi J. Rost, 2006.

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• It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.

  Samuel Smiles

  Life, Men, Effort

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.348

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• A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Political, Original Thought, Originality

  "Gaudy Night". Book by Dorothy L. Sayers, 1936.

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• Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Fear, People

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• We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal education opportunities? We believe that it does.

  Earl Warren

  Children, Believe, School

  Earl Warren (1959). “The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren”

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• I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

  Benjamin F. Wade

  Men, Slavery, Amazed

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• The utilities and facilities of major corporations can be confiscated and given to democratic collectives

  Russell Brand

  Corporations, Given, Democratic

  Russell Brand (2014). “Revolution”, p.341, Random House

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• The opportunities, income, schools facilities, the basic income support that the government provides or any of these things .. public transport arrangements we have.. all these are part of the way our lives and freedoms are effected.

  Amartya Sen

  School, Opportunity, Government

  "Interview: Amartya Sen on power to our citizens". Interview with Liam Byrne, liambyrne.co.uk. 2009.

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• If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.

  Wendell Willkie

  Power, Europe, Events

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• I focus on faculty, as opposed to facilities, budgets, endowments or students. I do so because I believe, based on many decades of work as a teacher, a scholar and an administrator, that the quality of the faculty determines the quality of the university. Everything else flows from the quality of the faculty. If the faculty are good, you will attract good students and you will have alumni who will raise funds for you.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Teacher, Believe, Focus

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Unless a woman has a decided pleasure and facility in teaching, an honest knowledge of everything she professes to impart, a liking for children, and, above all, a strong moral sense of her responsibility towards them, for her to attempt to enroll herself in the scholastic order is absolute profanation.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Strong, Children, Teaching

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• A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper.

  John Pym

  Soul, Body, Parliament

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• We've created the best indoor winter facility in the world. Having set that benchmark, it could inspire a whole new generation throughout the world.

  Phil Taylor

  Winter, Inspire, Generations

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• Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called the royal road to our particular field of knowledge.

  Felix Klein

  Territory, Fields, Royal

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• The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should be denied this chance. You cannot conduct a modern community except with an adequate supply of persons upon whose education, whether humane, technical, or scientific, much time and money have been spent.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Community, Adequate

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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• Unfortunately, there are very few facilities which offer courses in the arts. Not all the secondary schools offer the subject for CXC examinations.

  St. Lucia

  Art, School, Examination

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• I think any sport needs to be accessible, affordable and practiced within the confines of a safe environment. Parents who have young children want to be able to leave their child somewhere which has good facilities and where they're going to be looked after.

  Hope Powell

  Sports, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

  Lewis Mumford

  Travel, Mean, Cooking

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• Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Eight, Coal

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• There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could want, in terms of bookshops, theatre, cinema, conversation. But it's near enough to London to get here in an hour, and it's near enough to huge open spaces without which I would go insane.

  Mark Haddon

  Cities, Oxford, Space

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• The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

  Carly Fiorina

  Government, California, Leaving

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. June 13, 2010.

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• If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.

  Terry Eagleton

  Philosophy, Academic Life, Training

  "The death of universities" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2010.

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• Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.

  Carter Burwell

  Matter, Towns, Los Angeles

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• Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Science, Cells

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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