Today Quotes

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.

USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.

At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.

I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.

The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

My stockbroker asked me something important today: paper or plastic?

If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today.

Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39.

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.

The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.

Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously. The fact that a reader may buy an Armani item because she'd seen it on me in a magazine is very important to me. So much so that I intend to launch my own label.

Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.

One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.

What I'm saying is that there are bargains right now, there are stocks right now that if you're shrewd enough, you will be able to buy them at the opening today and I you'll make money in a year from now.

Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.

Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

Today, grass-roots Republicans want to drink a bottle of 2010 small-government wine, but our candidates were bottled in another era, before the tea party's ideas took root.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.