Michael Smith Quotations

We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens, now are destroying the other species that presently exist on this planet at a rate of about 15,000 to 20,000 per year.

Globally, the future is in this type of publication. The research we've seen lately indicates there's still a lot of room in the market for more demographically targeted newspapers.

He had this zest to discover people and in discovering them, if they were in need, he tried to help them.

He made a lot of money very quickly.

It is likely that the carrying value of these assets is below the current market value.

Our job is not to discourage someone from filing for public office irrespective of how many offices they file for. I would hope that someone would not (file for office) frivolously, because there is the cost to the district and the resources of the elections office.

Some lobbyists might consider this a lobbying opportunity. But we see it as a very worthy charitable event.

My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother and he in his father's market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south side of Blackpool, just north of Saint Anne's-on-Sea.

My mother attended the local church, Saint Nicolas, and consequently, I attended that church and its Sunday School. My only prizes from the Sunday School were 'for attendance,' so I presume my atheism, which developed when I left home to attend university, although latent, was discernible.

I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours program at the University of Manchester in 1950, where the professors were E.R.H. Jones and M.G. Evans, and graduated in 1953, with the financial support of a Blackpool Education Committee Scholarship.

You always have people going past me going 60 to 70 miles per hour.

The governor is very pleased that the (state) Senate acted promptly in confirming him and is sure he'll serve the people of the county well.

We all know Sunday morning is the most segregated hour of the week. I honestly believe this movie has real potential to change our country on race relations. People will walk out of this movie talking.

Bowl games provide a great opportunity to reinforce a national awareness of a city ... especially this time of year.

Bag Borrow or Steal was first-to-market with the concept of borrowing luxury products and is leading a revolution in the way consumers shop for designer goods. Over the past two years we have attracted thousands of members and in turn gained valuable insight into consumer attitudes and desires about borrowing designer goods online. At the same time we focused diligently on building a business that can scale rapidly and support our future plans. Now with market leadership established, a solid organization in place, and a new round of financing, we are well positioned for continued growth and expansion.

Ain't too many 14-year-olds that come and tell you they want to play big-time college football. I never have to tell him how hard he's got to work.

You should separate in your mind and say, this is retirement money, it's not a savings account.

You might as well say we're one big family, since that's the way we treat each other.

This is an awesome clinic for those who want to teach tennis, and I wouldn't miss it even if I wasn't involved. If (a coach or teaching pro) can get some kind of inspiration from this and maybe learn new things to use with their students, then we've done our job.

This plan has taken shape over the last month, and provides new energy behind a series of initiatives that will optimize the location of the Third Ward park, bring baseball to uptown Charlotte and initiate the grand vision of the Second Ward Neighborhood plan. This is a remarkable public/private venture.

It's a training program for people interested in horticulture. I think most who participate are homeowners.

It's obviously a concern for the industry overall. I think it's something that can be managed.

It's now widely accepted that a biodiversity-rich place, when properly protected, will seed biodiversity elsewhere. Saba Bank is such a place, a keystone location of extraordinary significance to the entire Caribbean.

Despite declining well numbers in many offshore areas drilling services will attract a flood of cash for the industry if you know where to look.

Each of you should be satisfied that your struggle expresses an innate moral commitment passed on by those we honor.

The blunt reality is that we got five of the seven, what you might call tax-and-spenders, from the previous councils that are still on council.

It's very sad to see something like this happen. The road is very tragic at all times.

In 1986, I was asked by the then-Dean of Science at the University of British Columbia, Dr. R.C. Miller, Jr., to establish a new interdisciplinary institute, the Biotechnology Laboratory. I decided that it was time for me to start paying back for the thirty years of fun that I had been able to have in research.

Cable only has a 58 percent penetration in Torrance, and a higher-than-average degree of people have Internet access. We want to hit citizens with information from a wide variety of sources, and the Internet is one of those tools.

Hollywood still denies that people like you exist, Open the Eyes of My Heart.

I don't see us being compliant (with the disabled access rules) by June 6. We still have to come up with a solution by November.

You can start a regular savings program through a credit union, if you have one, or set it up with your bank as an automatic withdrawal from your checking account. The point is that your system makes you do it, and it takes the money before you ever touch it.

All we can guarantee is the fish are there.