G.A. Aiken Quotes

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up, but I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep.

I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.

I've never really tried to copy anyone, I like to have my own style.

Only six electronic digital computers would be required to satisfy the computing needs of the entire United States.

The message I'll share...is that inclusion is extremely important for kids with and without disabilities.

Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.

I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me.

A song can be more than words and music ... when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity.

As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.

Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.

The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.

All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do.

I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.

Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.

The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain.

[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

I am a simple man and I want simple answers.

And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.

I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation.

My heart has become as hard as a city street, the horses trample upon it, it sings like iron, all day long and all night long they beat, they ring like the hooves of time.

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

There are stars out there who would die to have this much exposure.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

Theres my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

I'm afraid I wasn't much of a student, but my casual reading was enormous.

O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh! When we are dead, my best beloved and I, close well above us, that we may rest forever, sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only.

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.

I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.

While everyone I work with may not share my beliefs, I have been surrounded by nothing but support.

It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather, And the loin lies down with the limb.

No god save self, that is the way to live.

It's a whole team of people working 24 hours around the clock to make me look like this.

UNICEF is working for the survival of children worldwide. What can we do to get more Americans committed to the cause?

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.