Conferences Quotes

• Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.

  

  Fritz Hollings
  • Law
  • Likes
  • Meals

• And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.

  

  William Scranton
  • Water
  • Morning
  • Incidents

• I came back to a couple of homecoming events, like when I went into the Wall of Fame. And I have been in La Crosse for a couple of physical therapy conferences. Every time, I sneak into Mitchell Hall and look at the (championship) banner. It brings back great memories.

  

  Mary Hansen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Couple

• We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Political
  • Prison
  • Opponents

• Every day that goes by shortens our opportunity of booking it successfully. Whether it's members pulling their condos for personal use, whether it's a convention booking our conference center, whether it's golf packages being booked .. not hearing makes it that much harder to accommodate them.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Book
  • Opportunity
  • Golf

• I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Good
  • Rate
  • My Way

• "I tell you," he [Milosevic] continued, "Izetbegovic has earned Sarajevo by not abandoning it. He's one tough guy. It's his". These words were probably the most astonishing and unexpected of the conference.

  

  Richard Holbrooke
  • Guy
  • Words
  • Tough

• Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international press corps without a murmur of complaint to France from the United States about the disaster it was coddling in the incredibly naive liberal belief that this extremist cleric would be an improvement over the Shah.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • Giving
  • Daily
  • Paris

• I think there's a vast difference between the Big12 and some of the other major conferences. I think it is tougher to score in this conference, just because of the emphasis on defense.

  

  Eddie Sutton
  • Defense
  • Conferences
  • Empasis

• One of the nice things about living in Silicon Valley is that I end up at all these conferences and things, and I get to listen in on the zeitgeist.

  

  Rick Smolan
  • Listen
  • Zeitgeist
  • Silicon

• Jihad and the rifle alone. NO negotiations, NO conferences and NO dialogue

  

  Abdullah Yusuf Azzam
  • Dialogue
  • Negotiation
  • Rifles

• So the HP guy comes up to me (at the Melbourne conference) and he says, 'If you say nasty things like that to vendors you're not going to get anything'. I said, 'No, in eight years of saying nothing, we've got nothing, and I'm going to start saying nasty things, in the hope that some of these vendors will start giving me money so I'll shut up'.

  

  Theo de Raadt
  • Said
  • Eight
  • Vendors

• I thought they were supposed to pick teams, not conferences. Last year, the Big West got two berths because we deserved to go and Utah State won the tournament. This year, they were almost over fair. Utah State and Air Force had to be bubble teams, and if you have four or five bubble teams, you pick two and two or three don't get in. Cincinnati should have gotten in, but Syracuse ended up winning the Big East tournament. The Big East still got eight teams in. Cincinnati kicked itself out.

  

  Bob Thomason
  • Winning
  • Teams
  • Tournament

• It has been a whirlwind really, it all happened so quickly! I auditioned for Australian Idol for the 3rd time... to see where I was and if I had improved with my singing; and the next thing I knew in the final 12 and it went nuts from there - I walked straight off stage at the finals into a press conference and didn't have a days rest 'till New Years Day.

  

  Kate DeAraugo
  • Years
  • Finals
  • Idols

• If you are for a long time at the top you've basically achieved everything you wanted to. Then the ball's breaking stuff starts to be too much: it's not what you do in the car, it's what you do outside the car - the press conferences, the interviews, the sponsorship commitments, the marketing appearances - that sadly go up to a level that the whole package, including the risks you take, the workload you do to get the car to work and for you to be quick in the races, it becomes too much.

  

  Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda
  • Car
  • Risks
  • Achieved

• Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.

  

  Vincente Minnelli
  • Men
  • Stories
  • Sat

• My therapist shared a theory she had come across, and I liked it. It held that before making your next journey in this life, your soul sits at a large, circular conference table and chooses the souls who are going to be a part of your life. As for which particular people would be chosen, I figured they would be individuals from previous lives with whom there was still unfinished business.

  

  Melissa Gilbert
  • Business
  • Individual
  • Particular

• By journalistic custom and D.C. law, of course, reporters don't carry guns to news conferences -- and certainly not when the person at the lectern is the NRA's Asa Hutchinson, an unremarkable former congressman and Bush administration official whom most reporters couldn't pick out of a lineup. But the NRA wasn't going to leave any doubt about its superior firepower.

  

  Dana Milbank
  • Course
  • Custom
  • Reporters

• I want people to know we throw real parties. We don't need more boring libertarian or conservative conferences.

  

  Mike Cernovich
  • Know
  • Boring
  • Conservative

• Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.

  

  Norman Tebbit
  • Opinion
  • November
  • Settling

• I have received so many letters, messages, emails, testimonies of women whom I meet in international conferences, wherever it may be, who tell me, 'It's great that you have balanced life and work so successfully.' I now think I have underestimated that, the 'role model' aspect of my life, I must say.

  

  Isabelle Kocher
  • Letters
  • Balanced
  • Aspect of My Life

• It was a very funny conference. I knew Christopher Hitchens before that. He had always been a good angel to me. He once stole a phrase from me that came out of his mouth on television. I saw his eyes move sideways. I thought, It's alright, you can have it! The conference was light on women. Salman Rushdie showed up, they were doing their own thing. I didn't feel neglected!

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Moving
  • Eye
  • Angel

• I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn't give up. Then I wrote one more book.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Writing
  • Books
  • Organizations

• You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.'

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Disappointment
  • States
  • Shame

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