Famous Quotes & Sayings

Timothy Garton Ash

I will never forget meeting Suu Kyi in Rangoon - now officially known as Yangon - some six years ago, when she was still able to leave her house.

Timothy Garton Ash

Canada is rich, so would be a much-needed net contributor to the European budget at a time when the EU has been taking in lots of poorer states.

T. S. Eliot

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

Jackie Collins

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

Antonia Fraser

As the seventh wife of Henry VIII I hope I would have managed to do the old monster in-my cooking comes to mind, as I am a hopeless cook.

Antonia Fraser

Why waste time instructing others when you could be reading the manuscripts yourself? The only exceptions are matters of foreign language.

Jackie Collins

Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?

Dick Francis

I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child.

Virginia Woolf

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Tom Davis

There's always exceptions to the rule, ... but I think when you're looking at guards that don't shoot a great percentage, a lot of it is confidence.

John Warner

I am pro-choice with limitations, pro-life with exceptions

Denis MacShane

He never used the phrase 'ethical foreign policy'; instead, he said there should be an 'ethical dimension' to foreign policy.

Jaime Salazar

Being hungry is something you get very used to in the French Foreign Legion,

Jon Porter

In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.

Margaret Thatcher

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

Jim Walsh

touches on huge and important issues of foreign policy.

Mark Twain

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Porter Goss

foreign policy team was all on the same page.

Colin Lundgren

Foreign investors will still get a lot of yield comparatively in the U.S., so we could see them buying.

Hideo Mizutani

Foreigners have, thus far, made a lot of money by investing in Japanese stocks which were relatively cheap.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Jeff Gundy

What matters is that we fouled too much, we turned it over too much, and I think we probably shot in the 20's. We didn't play well enough on offense to win. We have professional players out there, so we have no excuses.

John Agius

There are one or two matters I wish to take up with them.

Bryan Whitman

He was relieved for matters of personal conduct.

Paul Taylor

Price matters in this market. This is an increasingly price-sensitive consumer.

Thomas Jefferson

In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.

Andruw Jones

All that matters now is another World Series. It's been a long time. We have done everything else, so now it's time to win a World Series again.

Jerry Steffen

Nothing matters but the weekend from a Tuesday point-of-view.

Steve Ballmer

It never matters where we are, ... We know we have to push, push, push, push, push to be better.

Austin Wilson

I now what the same sense of security and safety that I used to preach to others about.

Martti Ahtisaari

I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust.

Charles de Lint

I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the cost of others' happiness. Be true to your friends. Remembering to find some wonder and hope in the world. Basically it boils down to: treat people like you'd like them to treat you, leave the world a little better than it was when you got here, respect others and stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves.

Anderson Cooper

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

John Toshack

The six of them did so well with us that I told Brian, 'I will keep the lot of them and send you three of the others from the squad! You can have them instead'.

Amber Klages

The situation here was really unorganized and players would show up if they wanted to while others wouldn't so you couldn't work on plays in practice.

David Allen

Actually I worked with others in small partnerships for most of my career.

Juan Rebolledo

Some things are at 100 percent, others no. During the day, or perhaps tomorrow, practically everything will be back to normal.

Jacques Prevert

Some people have the time but they don't have time while others have time but do not have the time.

Richard Dawkins

We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.

Samuel Rogers

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

Rhys Ifans

But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever penned this body of work was firstly well-travelled, secondly a multi-linguist and thirdly someone who had an innate knowledge of the inner workings and the mechanisms of a very secret and paranoid Elizabethan court. Edward de Vere ticks those three boxes and many more. William of Stratford gave his wife a bed when he died [his second best bed].

Rebecca Eaton

I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.

Richard Ford

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

Richard Ford

I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.

Richard Ford

To write you had to read so I backed into reading.

Robert Duvall

Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.

Roald Dahl

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.

James Beard

It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

Norman Mailer

The greater the power of any subjective state, the more total is a Romantic's assumption that everyone understands exactly what he is about to do, therefore waste not a moment by stopping to tell them.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Eternity: what a waste of time.

Joel Osteen

You spend your time like you spend money. You can waste it or invest it.

Gene Wilder

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

Henry Ford

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

Betty White

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

Charles R. Swindoll

When each elder or pastor has his will aligned with the Lord's, we waste no time arguing for our own.

Ben Hecht

Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.