Bob Thompson Quotes (21 Quotes)

This is what they live to do, so we had nothing but volunteers. We even had guys in Afghanistan ready to rotate home, and they were saying don't even bring us home, fly us straight to Jackson (Miss.), and we'll start doing rescue down there.

Education is a significant part of our mission here at the Tyler Museum of Art. This exhibition was organized to recognize the contributions these artists make every day in their chosen profession of teaching art.

The most logical explanation is that the scale of what we were actually able to observe on TV on Sept. 11 - planes crashing into buildings, buildings collapsing - were so visceral and immediate,

We tried Baskin-Robbins years ago, and then their scoops got smaller and their prices went up. This is closer than Ben Jerry's. We gave up Ben Jerry's.

Here's this guy with a self-consciously bad haircut, but he's worth more than the GNP of many nations, ... With his success, it's become clear that geeks will inherit the earth.

The lower Olympic numbers are predictable and inevitable. Many people used to watch the Olympics because it was the best thing to watch. Now they have so many more choices.

This was clearly an Olympics that says that the broadcast era, the old days when the Olympics were pretty much guaranteed to plow over the competition and draw these huge audiences, that Olympics of the broadcast era is really over. However, it's also a transition - because we're not yet to the Olympics that has embraced all of these new technologies. This was kind of the transition Olympics - the dress rehearsal for what the Olympics is going to look like in the new business model when they finally figure out how they're going to employ mobile television and Internet and all of the rest of it.

The whole point of those (segments) is to leave a heap of carnage. That is a game that is really hard to win, even when you're one of the good guys.

It's an air mass that is just laden with moisture, and it doesn't take a whole lot to squeeze more water out.

This crisis is real. We just listed the 66th church on our Web site that has withdrawn from the UCC since General Synod 25. In my conference, the Southern Conference, we have lost 70 of 300 churches in less than four years. We aim to give churches a reason to stay.

I watch a lot of sports, and so far that's been what's driven the big-screen phenomenon. It's a status symbol a lot of people get a lot of pleasure being able to show off this enormous piece of hardware.

Now, even if you're not looking for the information - if you're looking for it, it's everywhere - but even if you're not, you log on to your e-mail, and there it is, hitting you in the face. It's very difficult to wait until prime time to see this stuff, because it's all over the place. That was a problem as well, and we should have seen that coming.

It is a crisis of lost churches, lost funds and lost unity brought on by the actions of our national leadership.

We don't have a choice. That's the way it is.

These bridges are all going so fast and I missed them. They are soon going to be gone and they are a part of our history.

I think we've certainly seen a return to some more comedic spots. For a few years after 911, that seemed kind of toned down, but there certainly seems to be a lot of comedy in the spots tonight.

The issues with tape delay has always been a problem - because you're not seeing these things as they happen, you're seeing them several hours later.

Plus, the response from Sept. 11 was a lot different. You had (government officials) out there with a sense of control and authority, despite what we saw in 'Fahrenheit 9-11.' Here, the complete lack of authority immediately becomes the type of stuff that comedians are great at doing.

You can decry this as a crime against literature or accept it as the way of the world, but the fact remains Selling books is about more than just talent and luck. It's about marketing.

We thought it probably would be a glance for us, but as it turned out it was even lighter. It stayed offshore, to our benefit.

After a year or two, the number of business jets (with broadband Internet) will far outstrip the number of commercial airlines.