John Tierney quote: "A college degree is the cornerstone of the American dream, opening the door to job opportunity and professional fulfillment, while increasing earning power by more than one million dollars over a lifetime. The world economy is extremely competitive and it is important to America's economic prosperity and national security that every student in America has access to a college education."

frightening the public with tales of a drug so seductive it instantly turns masses of upstanding cit...
JOHN TIERNEY

This is a typical turnout for an off-year election. But there is a warm, fuzzy feeling about coming ...
JOHN TIERNEY

A column really works best when you really have something to say about something. I haven't had a gr...
JOHN TIERNEY

We cannot continue to ask the brave men and women of our Armed Forces to put their lives on the line...
JOHN F. TIERNEY

On education, in order to ensure that America remains a world leader, we must create an educated, sk...
JOHN F. TIERNEY

In order to invest in our future, we must ensure that we appropriately protect programs that provide...
JOHN F. TIERNEY

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God...
GENE TIERNEY

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.
GENE TIERNEY

I don't have much patience with sick people.
MAURA TIERNEY

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
GENE TIERNEY

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a ...
GENE TIERNEY

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.
GENE TIERNEY

I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.
GENE TIERNEY

This is one of the best offensive teams we've seen, and we didn't hold them down ? we had the ball m...
BILL TIERNEY

What goes on with Princeton lacrosse is as much to the credit of him as to me and the players. He's ...
BILL TIERNEY

He brings the offensive game of lacrosse to a more cerebral level.
BILL TIERNEY

There was a little spark, so hopefully we can carry that into our Ivy League season.
BILL TIERNEY

We knew what happened last year. We lost to this team 17-4. We knew how they could score, and we kne...
BILL TIERNEY

You can imagine him nodding his head as you listen to the tape.
BILL TIERNEY

It's frustrating, because I don't think we played our game in the first quarter. We were tied 1-1 at...
BILL TIERNEY

I think the guys think of him in a very respectful way, as a guy who can very easily lead them. And ...
BILL TIERNEY

We are going to have to play them harder than we ever have before. They have remarkable senior leade...
BILL TIERNEY

Schwartzman was definitely the difference in the first half. But our guy was the difference in the s...
BILL TIERNEY

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.
GENE TIERNEY

The tactic of attaching riders to the budget is brilliant.
DANIELLE TIERNEY

They found things in these tapes I had explained in a more benign manner.
BILL TIERNEY

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
GENE TIERNEY

In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.
GENE TIERNEY

Organizational improvisation ... Research on jazz musicians shows that people don't just pull stuff ...
KATHLEEN TIERNEY

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.
GENE TIERNEY

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.
GENE TIERNEY

To look at the photos I saw, it was just extremely unnerving. They looked like pictures from Auschwi...
GAIL TIERNEY

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
GENE TIERNEY

I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they th...
MAURA TIERNEY

I think it is uncharted waters and we have no idea.
BILL TIERNEY

In the first half we knocked some shots down, but our offense didn't seem to be clicking. We picked ...
TIM TIERNEY

When you blow a nine-point lead like that you definitely lose your momentum. We continued to battle ...
TIM TIERNEY

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.
GENE TIERNEY

That was a good goal by our third line. Everyone touched the puck and was in the right place.
BO TIERNEY

The first period, we dominated them, and in the second, it was totally the flip side. I thought we l...
BO TIERNEY

This was an important game for us. These are two big points for us with the schedule we have coming ...
BO TIERNEY

Every game is so important, especially in a year like this with so many upsets. You can't lose focus...
BILL TIERNEY

Alex was fabulous. We know we've got a great goalie; Alex gives our defense confidence.
BILL TIERNEY

They're much more powerful shooters. Hofstra was able to score where we didn't.
BILL TIERNEY

We have got to take care of the little things and protect the ball on offense. We lost a huge opport...
BILL TIERNEY

Any one shot on goal can be the difference. We need to concentrate on every opportunity.
BILL TIERNEY

We've got a bunch of athletic, confident kids that play within our system, but we can't sit back any...
BILL TIERNEY

We're much faster, much cleaner off the ground. I can't remember in a long time when the whole [fres...
BILL TIERNEY

Because of my experience being in the inspections and being in the military, I knew the significance...
BILL TIERNEY

Strengthening Chubb's electronic capabilities is a top priority. The introduction of electronic sign...
KATHLEEN TIERNEY

Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry bet...
GENE TIERNEY

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
GENE TIERNEY

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.
GENE TIERNEY

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.
GENE TIERNEY

We hope women 25 and over will be able to use one of our for-fee clinics.
DANIELLE TIERNEY

These funds do not pay for abortion services. We already have federal and state laws which prohibit ...
DANIELLE TIERNEY

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers ju...
GENE TIERNEY

Gold seems to be in a sideways to down formation, and that may have taken a little of the wind out o...
DON TIERNEY

Gold seems to be marking time, waiting for some new developments to take place. It's a little undeci...
DON TIERNEY

It's a Friday. Some people wanted to flatten out their positions and take another look at it Monday,...
DON TIERNEY

Nat Broderick had several good chances to score as did Hardy Merrill. We're a young team, so I was h...
TIM TIERNEY

Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed ...
GENE TIERNEY

$10 million dollars being set aside for other health care providers, regardless of their capacity or...
DANIELLE TIERNEY

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my...
GENE TIERNEY

I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.
GENE TIERNEY

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to...
GENE TIERNEY

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently...
GENE TIERNEY

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be us...
GENE TIERNEY

What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and br...
GENE TIERNEY

I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small ...
GENE TIERNEY

Traffic complaints are the largest number of complaints to the sheriff's department and probably the...
GAIL TIERNEY

But they apparently took offense to it.
GAIL TIERNEY

We are not investigating it as criminal. (But), I can't speculate as to what might have happened.
GAIL TIERNEY

obvious signs of foul play.
GAIL TIERNEY

in terms of eating more and eating better.
GAIL TIERNEY

There was evidence of damage or missing toenails of these children.
GAIL TIERNEY

I never had a player come so far so quickly. I'm not surprised at anything he does.
HANK TIERNEY

I'd like to say we made him into a player. But we didn't. We showed him how to block and who to bloc...
HANK TIERNEY

I understand why he can do both (offense and defense) because he's an amazing athlete. He's agile, w...
HANK TIERNEY

He said he wanted to play defensive end, and he could have. But we were in bad need of a tight end.
HANK TIERNEY

At Shaw, we didn't allow seniors to go out for football. I just felt it wasn't fair to the seniors. ...
HANK TIERNEY

He said he just didn't want to play. He was out there for all the wrong reasons.
HANK TIERNEY

When I got here (at West Jeff in 2002 following a sterling career at Archbishop Shaw), I heard there...
HANK TIERNEY

Ultimately all of these decisions should be about what's best for the kids. In trying to reach our k...
HANK TIERNEY

The role of a female outlaw was not exactly custom-made for someone recently out of a finishing-scho...
GENE TIERNEY

Everyone that ever met me has been in love with me.
LAWRENCE TIERNEY

Where's my food? When is it coming? What did I order, anyway?
LAWRENCE TIERNEY

People make fast moves around me, I react. I can't help it.
LAWRENCE TIERNEY

Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself.
LAWRENCE TIERNEY

Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.
LAWRENCE TIERNEY

A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.
LAWRENCE TIERNEY

They did anticipate breaching of the levees, that the pumps wouldn't work, ... couldn't get the fede...
KATHLEEN TIERNEY

We need a panel of qualified experts that is knowledgeable and objective and has all the investigati...
KATHLEEN TIERNEY

To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satis...
KATHLEEN TIERNEY

More than 80 percent of the housing was destroyed. It's an island; there was nowhere to go. They did...
KATHLEEN TIERNEY

If we weren't prepared, and we didn't do our part, no amount of work by FEMA could overcome the lack...
KATHLEEN TIERNEY

We've been on this trajectory for about 15 years. We're seeing increasingly bigger disasters and inc...
KATHLEEN TIERNEY

It is extremely important that a commission independent of the executive and legislative branches an...
KATHLEEN TIERNEY

There are a lot more people on the ground. Boots on the ground, yes. Effectiveness of what's going o...
KATHLEEN TIERNEY

Business is business. If you label it, you limit yourself. Everyone's welcome as long as you treat p...
MICHAEL TIERNEY

Before we give away our land, we need some clarification so we all know exactly what we're buying.
MICHAEL TIERNEY

I waited patiently. I'm a taxpayer. I deserve to speak.
MICHAEL TIERNEY

The disbelief look was a common look that I saw. People just don't think that it can be done.
MIKE TIERNEY

When the settlement came to light, people decided it was absorbable and that the risk was manageable...
REILLY TIERNEY

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE

Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY

This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS

The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN

I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON

Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON

I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON

In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON

What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS

You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN

I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN

The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND

I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD

Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT

My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR

Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE

I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE

I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE

Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE

You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH

I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON

I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI

Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI

The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI

With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER

Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER

Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD

You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN

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