Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yahya Jammeh

What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

Abraham Lincoln

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Chris Carter

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

Evangeline Lilly

'The Squickerwonkers' was the story I wrote when I was on 'The Hobbit.' And I brought it to Comic-Con and sold out a thousand copies I had printed.

Mike Perry

The peddler exhibit will show people how important their role was to society. People depended on them because they brought in supplies such as pots, pans, needles and threads.

Mikhail Margelov

The outrage that the Danish newspaper brought about is gaining such momentum that the world community must focus on the events.

David Selby

And it was so special, and to tell you the truth that's how I feel about the whole thing, I mean when I meet someone that has watched the show, and it has brought such joy to them, it just makes you feel so good.

David Suchet

I'd love to be remembered as a character actor who brought illumination to roles in wonderful plays and who delivered performances that made people think and rethink those roles.

Vladimir Prelog

An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation.

Rebecca Solnit

To say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inversion of the mainstream's 'everything's fine.'

Mark Zuckerberg

Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it's kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years - maybe even sooner.

Vinod Thomas

We have more scientific know-how today than we did before. We know the vulnerability; we know the hot spots. But prevention is far more the exception than the norm.

Max Gartner

With the exception of women's slalom, I think we have a medal shot in every event.

Harley Dale

With the exception of Sydney, which is still very weak, there is no feeling that a substantial pull-back is in the offing for the housing industry over the next 12 months.

Toye Taylor

With the exception of one or two people, all (32) are new people to participate (in government). There is a new excitement and a new momentum for Washington Parish.

Chris Curry

With the exception of one of our recent losses, we've been playing some solid volleyball. Hopefully, we'll keep this going.

Jerry Schartner

With the exception of North, there wasn't any place where we didn't have to do a lot of scouting.

Wendy Roberts

With the exception of a little plateau here or there, they have pretty much gone up steadily

Chuck Michaelson

The pins killed us. When we're in those matches and go to being pinned ... that killed (us).

Bobbi Brown

Nobody is the color of translucent powder. Instead, choose a powder that matches your skin tone.

Todd Cheney

That was a swing match for our team, because it really turned the momentum.

Eric Osmer

That was where the match swung. We just got on a roll after that. Nobody was going to stop us.

Brock Waughen

That was the big match for me to get through. I did it.

John M. Smith

That was real important, those two wins there. Maybe in the big picture at the end, those two matches might have made the difference.

Damien Wilkins

We just didn't match their intensity, and you can't do that in this league. You know that it's going to be tough on a back-to-back, but we have to be better than that. We've had plenty of back-to-back and understand how tough they are.

Gene Harris

We wanted to look at whether their skills match the needs of today's students,

Kurt Warner

With the talent I've been around, and I've been around a lot of talent, this team matches up very favorably with the talent that I've been around.

William Lashner

I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

Dennis Franchione

The only ranking that really matters to us is how we feel about this class, and we feel like we have another good, solid class.

Adrian Moss

The past means nothing. It really doesn't matter until you get out there and play.

Simon Cowell

The past is the past, no matter how successful it's been. For me, it's only tomorrow that's interesting.

Nick Jonas

The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

C. S. Lewis

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

Cecelia Ahern

Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.

Bill Bryson

In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe

Bertrand Russell

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

Randy Pausch

If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

Cillian Murphy

That was the first time people noticed me in the U.S..

David Sullivan

That was the first time people actually noticed her, and why, I don't know. She has been playing this tough for two years.

Dave Lewis

I wish I had noticed the teammate's number so I could tell you his name. He is a true American hero.

Tim Henman

When you speak to tennis journalists, you notice how little they understand.

John Zelezny

We are required to give a four-month notice before we can go off contract.

Yuri Kochiyama

I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.

Kix Brooks

New York actually took notice of us and it wasn't in a hokey, hay-bale kind of way.

Clint Mathis

You are going to have to talk to the referee because I don't know why I got thrown out,

Harry Redknapp

The referee has done us, he had a terrible time of it,

Lindsey Graham

If this were a fight, the referee would have stopped it.

Gary Johnson

Liam says Hayles nudged him first and the referee has said he will have a look at the video.

Steve Price

I couldn't understand why the referee called 'tackled'.

Chris Coleman

If the referee sees that, he's off, simple as that,

Larry Pope

We get contribution requests all the time, ... We're not going to give $10 here and $100 there. We want to make a difference.

Ariel Sharon

I don't think it would be suitable (to request aid) at this time so we will wait a while.

Barbara Jones

He cooperated with our request to come out and SWAT was there and we took him into custody.

Daniel Joseph

He had many requests to have someone end his life.

Kathleen Battle

When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera.

Kenneth Blackwell

The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount.

Bill Steele

Our trustees are not employee-friendly. We request you appoint new trustees who are employee-friendly.

Justin Long

So I made a request. I said to the writers, I have a minor request that I just want to play a loser.

Bob Goin

no such request formally made so I don't know where that is.