Group Quotes

The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique.

~ Mick Taylor

There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.

~ Robert Mankoff

Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.

~ Jack Germond

War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.

~ Chiang Kai-Shek

I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.

~ Joshua Lederberg

Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.

~ Ernst Toller

And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we realized we really knew how to use the fourth member of the group - that space. The thing about the trio is that it's the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

~ Charlie Hunter

The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.

~ Barney Oliver

One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.'

~ Chance The Rapper

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

~ Indira Gandhi

A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with.

~ Lenny Abrahamson

I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.

~ Edmund White

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

~ Mike Krzyzewski

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.

~ William Glasser

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.

~ William Glasser

People who study the way religions develop have shown that if you have a charismatic teacher, and you don't have an institution develop around that teacher within about a generation to transmit succession within the group, the movement just dies.

~ Elaine Pagels

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

~ Darrell Royal

What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group.

~ Gloria Steinem

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

~ Erica Jong

I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.

~ S. E. Hinton

I started a MySpace teen lit discussion group and invited people to join.

~ Sarah Mlynowski

It feels like there's something for everyone in video games. It's not just a toy for a certain age group. It's steeped in the culture now.

~ Rich Moore

At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.

~ Lawrence Kohlberg

The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise.

~ Ryszard Kapuściński

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

~ Aslan Maskhadov

We are stronger as a group than an individual. Think in a cooperative and communal way, set up local food hubs and create growing communities.

~ Arthur Potts Dawson

Ounce for ounce, herbs and spices have more antioxidants than any other food group.

~ Michael Greger

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.

~ Jane Elliot

I guess there are some women who like older men, but it's a smaller group.

~ Michael Douglas

We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.

~ Lisa Bonet

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

~ Barbara Smith

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.

~ Jerry Saltz

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

~ Lincoln Steffens

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.

~ Lester B. Pearson

The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.

~ Dan Pink

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

~ George Herbert Mead

I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit.

~ Anatoli Boukreev

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

~ Herbert Hoover

In 1960-61, a small group of female pilots went through many of the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts and scored very well on them - in fact, better than some of the astronauts did.

~ Henry Spencer