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“I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.”
Will Rogers
“The sheepskin conferred on a student by a college hardly compensates for the human hide that will be knocked off him later in the school of experience”
Charley Jones
“My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.”
Natalie Portman
“To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“I'm a conference champ and I feel awesome. I felt good all day. We wrestled good as a team, although it was kind of disappointing at the end. We had a couple guys out, and then had to hold Clay out as well. But I felt we wrestled good with what we had.”
Brodie Ambrose
“Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.”
Ellis Peters
“To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.”
Publilius Syrus
“[In his mini state-of-the-Jets address on a conference call with reporters, Edwards revealed some of the last-minute musings of a coach on the cusp of opening day.] I don't know if they're concerns ... but I haven't seen it live, ... I have no history of that. It's not a concern; that's what it is.”
Herman Edwards
“The goal of the conference is to revive the interest and knowledge about Albert Schweitzer and the humanitarian values he promoted.”
David Ives
“Our game plan is first year, a .500 season. Second year, a conference championship. Third year, undefeated. Fourth, a national championship. And by the fifth year, we'll be on probation, of course.”
Paul Bryant
