Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanis Varoufakis

I plan to concentrate on helping set up a Pan-European political movement, inspired by the Athens Spring, that will work toward Europe's democratization.

Yanis Varoufakis

For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.

Teri Pope

You'll be able to come out of Athens Street turning left or south on 365 and be able to have a lane to climb and get up to speed in.

Tiesto

I think one of the greatest gigs I played, and we've had many, but to play the opening ceremony at - at the Olympic games in Athens 2004 was pretty special, you know? Because it's such a big deal for the whole world. And the whole world's watching. So that was definitely one of the special ones.

Hugh Ball

We promote Athens as the midway stop in the interstate, and these places are giving people reasons to stop.

Katie Mactier

I can't even begin to tell you. I've raced in Athens and other championships but I've never been quite as emotional as tonight.

Jacques Rogge

This successful transition... was key to the Sydney, Salt Lake City (Winter Olympics) and Athens Games. We know our Chinese friends will succeed in this transition too.

Eunice Foster

We found out when the University of Georgia at Athens called and told us that they wanted to come and visit to see what we do because we were No. 1.

Rich Brands

Usually 4A teams do not have 11 (good) players, but Athens does and came up with the plays it need. I was very impressed with them. I think we can do better, but we got beat by a good team.

Tina Turner

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

Wentworth Miller

I'm one of those actors who's going to have to create a space for themselves. It's very easy to be the young Tom Cruise, because Hollywood knows what to do with you. But if you're someone who's bringing someone slightly left of center to the table, you're not a sure thing.

Evo Morales

We are starting a process of decolonization in Bolivia. All this is bringing about change and we will continue.

Ellen Key

The work of popular education, the temperance movement, the peace movement, are to a great extent carried on by the young. Their meetings show that the young understand one of their tasks: that of bringing together the different classes through social intercourse.

Beeban Kidron

I want to talk about privacy, the quality of the information you receive, whether it's neutral or commercial or pointed, bringing consciousness to the lack of neutrality in the algorithms.

Nayvadius Cash

My favorite rappers are, I can't really say. I like Kanye because he's so creative. He'll just do anything. I like what Kanye's bringing to the game. Lil Wayne. I like Wayne.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.

Gail Davidson

The American legal system seems incapable of bringing him to justice and there are no international courts with jurisdiction. So it's up to Canada to enforce the law that everybody has signed on to but nobody else seems willing to apply.

James Rubin

That whole process of bringing the people together has been frozen,

William John Wills

The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple.

Natalie Darwitz

It definitely hurts. This is not why we came here, to play in the bronze medal game.

Henry Bessemer

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

Ahn Soo

People were willing me to be quadruple champion but the 500 is my weakest and to win the bronze made me very happy.

Dan Finley

One of the most moving pieces is the bronze cast of the papal hand.

Paul Eberhardt

I was so proud of them. They came out and played really hard (in the bronze medal game). They said, 'Hey, we deserve to go out on a big note.' A lot of teams might have (given up) but they didn't let that happen.

Sasha Cohen

I was surprised when I learned I would be for sure getting a bronze and even more surprised when I going to be getting a silver. It was kind of like, oh that's nice. But over the last four years, I changed as a person. My focus is not on the medal. For me it's the experience and the process and enjoying it.

Wang Meng

I felt I would have the bronze medal. I felt the Korean team did something.

Marlies Schild

I expected a bronze medal, maybe. When I saw I was second I was very surprised, very happy.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The difference between brown and white rice is that the former is not milled. With the outer bran and germ intact, the rice is therefore chewier and nuttier.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.

Matt Groening

With Charlie Brown, it was about loneliness and isolation. I always thought that the thing about Charlie Brown and those characters was the absence of the parents. Half the strip was about who wasn't there. The parents were never in the picture.

Buddy Bell

That was a rocket. It didn't surprise me that Brown didn't catch that one.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

I've had the exact same brown hair all my life, and my whole life, people have been telling me to change my hair.

Tom Izzo

We had one stretch where we felt we were getting clobbered in there and Dee Brown took over. A combination of the two is not a pretty sight.

W. S. Gilbert

Mike Brown was our first choice and only choice.

Michael Chertoff

Mike Brown talked about the need to take seriously this hurricane ... It was difficult to know where on the Gulf Coast it was going to land.

Eli Pariser

Michael Brown taught us that vital national positions must be filled with qualified candidates, not political friends with little experience.

Gregory Melich

Management cited a narrower assortment of handsets, ramp up of expertise on the activation process, and fewer-than-expected promotions as reasons for the softness.

Donald Rumsfeld

We have no evidence at all that the allegation you cited is correct, ... I am sure it is not.

Kgalema Motlanthe

If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.

William Holmes

I was cited for having lights on a vehicle. I paid the fines and they released the lights back to me, and I put them back in the car, ... They weren't in use then, it was observed in my vehicle.

Bob Gorman

This year's investment themes are highly consistent with those we cited in 2005. Overall, investors can expect steady, but not spectacular progress in their portfolios in 2006.

E. Howard Hunt

We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary.

Elizabeth King

The move to penny increments, ... greatly reduced spreads in those securities trading in pennies and narrower spreads have been cited as one of the factors that led to a decrease in the use of payment for order flow in securities traded as pennies. Payment for order flow could similarly be reduced in options if spreads are narrowed.

Jim Leonard

There were a couple of interviews done with companies that left, and they cited New Jersey's bureaucracy and, on the flip side, the hospitality shown to them by the state they moved into as one of the main reasons they left.

Charlie Glavin

We were previously looking for revenue of $16.1 million and earnings per share of one cent. Weak demand for PCs and flat-panel displays were cited as the culprits.

Gwen Moore

The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women.

John Ashcroft

The pending hate crime legislation in Congress is under review in the Justice Department at this time, ... We're inclined to prosecute hate crimes like this one.

Dana Perino

The appropriate members of Congress have been and continue to be informed with respect to the Terrorist Surveillance Program.

Ron Bonjean

The American people want Congress to find sincere ways to pay for Hurricane Katrina, and we are pressuring ourselves to get this done.

Nancy Pelosi

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

John Boehner

The American people know that our government's too big, and it spends too much. And they expect Congress to do something about it.

Mark Lassiter

We could not arbitrarily do this on our own. This is an issue that Congress will have to decide.

Jim Saxton

We have uncertainty resulting from international events -- the Iraq situation, as well as international terror -- while domestically, in Congress, we have done our part to create uncertainty with regard to spending policy, as well as tax policy, ... We passed some tax cuts that are going to expire, and that creates uncertainty when people plan for their future.

Larry Meyers

To let the senators know how we feel about the legislation in Congress ... It's a peaceful assembly.

Gabriel Mann

But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.'

Zaha Hadid

Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.

Zach Braff

That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

Zac Efron

I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Polenta is one of those ingredients that in many homes spends its days at the back of the kitchen cupboard, on the 'no one knows quite what to do with it' shelf.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Until a person has a home, they are always going to be dependent upon the system.

William Stone

If you don't come home with data, you've done nothing.

Zubin Mehta

I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.

John Calipari

I think I learned it from Larry Brown.

Xavier Niel

Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.

Chauncey Billups

We're going to miss Larry Brown, but so many times it was just about Larry. It was always, 'Larry did this, Larry did that,' with the result that I don't think the players got enough credit.

Carl Reiner

We were all up there, Dick and Mary and Rosie and Larry Mathews and I looked around and I said, inadvertently, 'Look at this, we could do a show,'

Neil Innes

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

Theo Epstein

My relationship with Larry is one that spanned about 14 years; we've had a very successful working relationship,

Brendan Barnicle

Larry will go out of there in a pine box.

Shai Agassi

Larry is a very smart man. You can quote me on that.

Phil Jackson

Larry has been in this situation many more times than I have, ... It is very unique for me.