October Quotes
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(Kirk Gibson's World Series-game-winning home run, October 15, 1988, transcribed from mlb.com archives excising comments by color commentator Joe Garagiola)
Vin Scully
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I was promoted associate professor in early 1970 and full professor in October of the same year. I spent the two spring semesters of 1972 and 1974 as visiting professor at Harvard University, giving lectures and directing a research project.
Jean-Marie Lehn
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In 2006, the Congress had approved plans to allow the Fed, beginning in 2011, to pay interest on banks' reserve balances. In the fall of 2008, the Congress moved up the effective date of this authority to October 2008.
Janet Yellen
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Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.
John Leonard
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I'm a goal setter, but in broad strokes. I don't have a by-October-2009-I-want-to-be-here plan. All I do is work with an element of challenge and an element of enjoyment. With that, anything can happen.
Eric Dane
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So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized.
Kim Dae Jung
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If this drags on to September, October, November, December, we'll have fighters that have not boxed this year, the fighters at the top end are going to be fine but the fighters coming through, small hall fighters, ones starting their careers or those who do not have a sponsorship deal face big concerns.
Eddie Hearn
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Am I going to have to use my ‘Mother of Five Voice’ to be heard?' (to an inattentive audience while campaigning)-Quoted in the October 23, 2006 issue of Newsweek
Nancy Pelosi
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We are here to celebrate the upcoming merger along with honoring the past of two great airlines. The merger is proceeding well and we anticipate closing the deal in late September or early October.
Doug Parker
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The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.
John Dyer
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Like the assassination of JFK, everybody alive then can remember where they were that Doomsday Week of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. That Saturday, 27 October, was, and remains, the closest the world has come to nuclear holocaust - the blackest day of a horrendous week.
Alistair Horne
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September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.
Ben Bernanke
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O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all. The crows above the forest call; Tomorrow they may form and go. O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow. Make the day seem to us less brief. Hearts not averse to being beguiled, Beguile us in the way you know. Release one leaf at break of day; At noon release another leaf; One from our trees, one far away.
Robert Frost
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I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.
John Pople
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On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.
James A. Michener
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I'm an October baby, yes.
Cardi B
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We don't get typhoons in December. They normally end by September. A typhoon happening in October is considered a late event.
Benigno Aquino III
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I was born in Breslau on October 5th, 1930. At that time, Breslau, now called Wroclaw, belonged to Germany, and only German was spoken there. After the Second World War, Breslau became Polish, and the original German population was almost completely replaced by a Polish one. I have never visited Wroclaw after the war.
Reinhard Selten
