Major Quotes

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.

If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy.

The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it.

When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing.

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.

We had this budding baby band going and we hadn't reached that development we wanted to reach before we got signed to a major label.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone.

Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career.

But I definitely see us playing a major role in St. Louis in the years to come. We already provide service to 95 percent of the markets St. Louis travelers visit the most. And we're adding capacity in some of the most important markets.

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.

It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease.

When I look at the record of President Obama concerning the major issue security I think it's a highly satisfactory record from Israeli point of view.

With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus.

Anyone who knows me knows my mom, Dorcina, has to sign off on any decision and that she will play a major part in any decision.

One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.

Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?

Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care.

We all talk to ourselves. A major key to success exists in what we say to ourselves, which helps to shape our attitude and mindset.

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.