Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Joyce

I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants.

David Byrne

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don't think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

Bonnie Tyler

I would love to do a Bond song, and I could have done a Bond song: I was offered a Bond theme, but I turned it down because I didn't like the song. But as it turned out, I was right anyway because the song was the only Bond theme that never became a hit, so I'm glad I wasn't associated with that!

Elaine Pagliarulo

That was great. She needed that. This team needed that. They had put their best defensive players on her the past two games. Tonight we needed her to step up anyway and she did that.

Pico Iyer

It's only by taking myself away from clutter and distraction that I can begin to hear something out of earshot and recall that listening is much more invigorating than giving voice to all the thoughts and prejudices that anyway keep me company twenty-four hours a day.

Paul Auster

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all - most of us, anyway - want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

J. C. Watts

We've kind of gotten a cult following at this point, so we sold out in an hour and thirty-six minutes this year, online and as you can see everybody's coming out anyway in spite of the nasty weather.

Pat Barker

That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.

Ichiro Suzuki

My comments seemed to stir up a lot of things but they are going be interpreted in many ways anyway and I'm fine with that. I felt the weight of shouldering the Japanese flag and this primarily brought out my emotions in this tournament.

Isabella Bird

The Malays can hardly be said to have an indigenous literature, for it is almost entirely derived from Persia, Siam, Arabia, and Java. Arabic is their sacred language.

Zubin Mehta

There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.

Moshe Dayan

It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying.

Naguib Mahfouz

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me.

Pankaj Mishra

The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators who stand in their way.

Winston Churchill

The Arabs are a backwards people who eat nothing but Camel dung

Suliman Baldo

The Arab League would be wrong to lend its blind support to the Khartoum regime.

Ahmed Nazif

The Arab League is melting at the edges. It is a time of change, in many dimensions.

Laith Kubba

The Arab League has good connections to many parties in Iraq and can use these parties' offices and power to back up the political process. These horizons are welcomed and will witness real support from the Iraqi government.

Johnny Depp

That would really send my popularity to the depths.

Mia Wasikowska

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

Michael Budman

White is very popular in Italy, and the U.S. wore it in '56.

David Dreier

We know it may not be the single most popular thing, but it's the right thing to do.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

Baruch Spinoza

Popular religion may be summed up as a respect for Ecclesiastes

Dan Furmansky

He wants to place our rights up for a popular vote on the ballot.

Grant Hill

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.

Van Orden

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

Bryan Stevenson

I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility.

Cary Sherman

Industries are fearful of legislation. But if you start in the marketplace and forge a solution, you get a lot less resistance - and often a more flexible approach.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Gijs de Vries

We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.

Bryant H. McGill

Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance.

Bryant H. McGill

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

Charles Atlas

My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.

Walter Benjamin

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

Hamid-Reza Asefi

The Palestinians have voted for the resistance and have shown their loyalty.