J Harlen Bretz Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“It was a debacle which swept the Columbia Plateau.”
-- J Harlen Bretz

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“Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.”
-- J Harlen Bretz

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“Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.”

“Columbia tried to put me behind other groups, so I didn't wanna wait, they let me out of the contract and I'm glad they did.”

“There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.”

“I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.”

Source : Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

“It was a debacle which swept the Columbia Plateau.”

“When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.”

“I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!”

“The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.”

“I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.”

“Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.”

Source : "Grassley lifts hold on the FCC" by Eliza Krigman, www.politico.com. April 27, 2012.