Admission Quotes

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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

- Alfred Hitchcock

(When asked if modern viewers will view Mr. Darcy differently.) I think looking at it now, Darcy would seem much more snobbish in our understanding of the word than he would then. To somebody like Darcy, it would have been a big deal for him to get over this difference in their status, and to be able to say to Lizzie that he loved her. We would think it was incredibly snobbish and elitist, but it wasn`t for him. It would have been a big admission, and he would have found it very vulgar. It`s a bigger divide than it would have been then is what I`m saying.

- Matthew Macfadyen

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

- Henry Kissinger

It`s a very appropriate admission that she`s in the entertainment business and a global entity.

- David Carter

There`s no getting around the fact that the day of admission is going to be an emotional one; but there are a lot of things you can do to ensure a smooth transition.

- Ed McMahon

This is ... a stunning admission that the current theories do not explain it, and it has not refuted the idea that things are the product of intelligent cause.

- John West

(About working as a coroner`s assistant in his youth) "Mainly I discovered that I`m not afraid of death, but I`m afraid of dying too young. I want my son to bury me, and I want to be mummified and have my body put in the wall. I just don`t want to rot. I want to be preserved in a mausoleum behind glass with both my middle fingers up with a disco ball above my head. I wouldn`t charge people admission. That would be my last gift to the world."

- Jonathan Davis

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.

- Richard Perle

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one`s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.

- Eleanor Clift

Stanford admission officers are now deep into the application evaluation process, with notification of decisions expected by April 1.

- Richard Shaw

The Admission Committee concluded that each student offered a position in the Class of 2010 will bring unique strengths and perspectives to the Stanford undergraduate experience. We are honored to have had the opportunity to admit such exceptional and engaged students, and we look forward to the many contributions they will make to the Stanford community.

- Richard Shaw

Government spending in the year to September increased by a thousand percent. When you spend a thousand percent, you will likely get the same amount in inflation. The real economy in this country shrunk even by the government`s own admission by 45 percent in the last five years. That means, government should have shrunk by 45 percent. Government has not shrunk by 45 percent. The formal economy is producing much less tax revenue, in order for it to pay its civil servants. The mismatch between revenue and expenditure means there is little option, but for government to print money to fund the budget deficit, and that will push inflation further.

- John Richards

The school is open to all -- no performances, portfolios or academic qualifications are necessary for admission. We build the curriculum around each individual student. They have the opportunity to choose the electives that challenge them and address their individual needs.

- Chris Bennett

A lot of questions deal with the application process. None of our choice schools have performance standards for admission, which is something parents are often confused about. We hear a lot of `Do you have to have a background in Montessori to go to a Montessori school?` The answer is no.

- Chris Bennett

The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change.

- Connie Mack

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world`s ignorance and press for admission.

- Albissaty Saleh Allazam

We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects.

- Alexandre Vinet

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

- Alvin Wright

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

- Alvina Tan

But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don`t know.

- Andre Parker

You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.

- Andre Parker

It`s an admission of guilt. That`s what makes me happy. The money had nothing to do with it,

- Anne Krieg

Nobody is interested in your contrition. They are only interested in your admission.

- Antonio Rivero

We think that array of issues in each student`s admission will give us the kind of latitude we need to recruit a world-class tuba player, a world-class designer, a world-class athlete to our program.

- Audrey Steele Burnand

To us, that was more or less an admission of guilt.

- Barry Butlien

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

- Alfred Hitchcock

The `morality of compromise` sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don`t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

- Andrew Carnegie

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one`s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

- Mahatma Gandhi