Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alison Nordstrom

I suspect that Rothstein was looking for an opportunity to show the dignity of African Americans, even in the South.

Chris Katongo

I think it could happen at the African Cup of Nations - you never know!

Jim Sinclair

I take great pride in the numerous accomplishments of our management team and the competence, drive and successes of our exploration group which is now being recognized by the growing number of Confidentiality Agreements that are now in place or under consideration. With the largest exploration undertaking on the African Continent, I look forward to more announcements of progress for our investors and potential industry partners.

Alpha Konare

Haiti is an African country outside of Africa. The AU wants to help create conditions in which a new government can be democratically elected in Haiti.

Leila Zerrougui

This was our first visit to an African country and South African conditions of detention could certainly be a best practice for any other country on the continent or anywhere else in the world.

Lonnie Bunch

He recognized this was an important niche, but I would also argue that he saw himself as contributing to the uplift of African Americans and contributing to a changing America.

John Prendergast

Having a strong African leader, with the confidence of regional governments, who's backed by high-level envoys from countries that matter

Frank Lambert

Here was the United States just emerging from its fight for independence when the young country finds itself blocked from free trade by North African countries in the Atlantic Ocean,

Whoopi Goldberg

Good evening, loyal subjects. I am the African queen. Some of you may know me as the virgin queen, but I can't imagine who.

Andy Cerroni

Jake Wagner had one of his better games for us on Thursday. He's beginning to gain more and more confidence with each game.

Leon Panetta

Just when we should be getting ready for the 21st century, our education system is beginning to fall down in terms of preparing our students for that future.

Neal Cotts

I think in our case it's come together pretty well. I think Ozzie instilled that from the beginning in spring training, that we're going to be together six months and make the best out of it.

John Snow

I think it's clearly beginning to show signs of a strong recovery, and a recovery that's accelerating, ... Late Edition.

Fran Cohen

I think it's beginning to sink in. More and more faculty are reporting plagiarism.

Tracy McGrady

I think the intensity from the beginning of the first quarter was there. Our overall concentration was there. We knew what we needed to do, and it helps when our shots are falling as well.

Barry Hyman

I think the movement we've seen since the beginning of the year, with a few weeks up, a few weeks down, is likely to continue at least through the end of the quarter.

Winston Justice

I thought from the beginning of the season that we could be a talented line. I think that when you actually like the guy playing next to you, it helps out during the game. I've played on lines when it's different. Now you want to play well for the guy next to you.

Teddy Atlas

I thought from the beginning he would be an outstanding pro. He has a pleasing style, is strong, and likes to come forward. I am looking forward to Friday's broadcast.

David Johansen

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.

Vivian Campbell

into the history of blues music itself, and into my own traits as a musician, too.

Benicio Toro

I listen to all types of music. I have been in Memphis recently, so I've been listening to some blues like Muddy Waters, and some early Elvis.

Jerome Paarwater

The Blues will be another tough test, they showed that much in the way they demolished the Bulls. That is why we will have to play clever rugby.

Chad Kassem

The blues was the foundation on which rock 'n' roll was built.

Rafael Mendez

The blues for me ? you just feel it. It's one of the easiest forms to play, but very few people can make other people feel the blues when you play it. If it wasn't for the blues I wouldn't even want to play the guitar.

Dan Aykroyd

This is just the beginning, ... Obviously we're going to have the House of Blues Foundation involved in subsidizing the employees' down there livelihood.

Sally Brown

It?s a lot of fun for everyone who plays and everyone who comes to watch. People really get into it. Last year?s Town Hall team dressed in St. Patrick?s Day garb, while the year before they brought us out of the winter blues with a Hawaiian dress theme, complete with leis. You forget the fact that it?s a fund-raiser.

David Sanborn

It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of is it's music where a lot of different elements are played at the same time. The harmonic, the melodic... You're pushing the boundaries on every level. That could be true of rhythm and blues as well. I'm a musician.

Diana Oblinger

I would surmise that the single most common characteristic of learners today is being time-constrained.

Ali Khan

What we've seen is what we would expect. Infectious disease outbreaks are not common following hurricanes.

John Prescott

have a great deal in common and a lot to discuss.

Jed S. Rakoff

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

Rob Bell

That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things...

Vladimir Putin

We had a very good situation in 2005. The common budget had a volume of 80 billion dollars per year. Thousands of jobs were created in Germany by Russian investments. At the same time, a large number of German companies invested in Russia. There were countless cultural and social contacts.

William Kingdon Clifford

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

Sam Altman

The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever.

William Hazlitt

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

Thomas Sydenham

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.

Thomas Malory

For love that time was not as love is nowadays.

Daniel Kim

His pronunciation was fantastic. I was going around, saying maybe he should be the one speaking Korean and I'll speak English and say, 'Dude,' a lot.

Ken Ramsey

I think by and large, 10-codes have seen better days, ... We use a lot of plain English in the sheriff's office.

Carolina Herrera

Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community.

Matthew Prior

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

Kingsley Amis

No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.

Kingsley Amis

There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

Kingsley Amis

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

Tara Lemmey

I think that privacy is sort of the nature of your identity, and how you transfer your identity is a very important global issue.

Bill Gates

It has been a great year for global health to get more visibility. The more people know about it, the more they want to act.

Igor Luksic

Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.

Joanne Woodward

I'm upset when I see that people don't seem to observe what's happening with the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming.

Kofi Annan

immediate and exceptional escalation of the global relief effort.

David Robinson

The impact is presumably larger than the Asians' on global interest rates.

Raymond Martin

A lot was achieved, including the finalization of a protocol setting out global standards for the provision and hygiene of public toilets.

Raymond Martin

A lot was achieved, including the finalisation of a protocol setting out global standards for the provision and hygiene of public toilets.

James Hansen

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

Ronald Schmelzer

Having two languages is better than having 500,

Dean Maki

I think that they are likely to make some small modification to the forward-looking language ... saying something like 'further policy firming might be needed' rather than 'may be needed'.

Richelle Mead

I can understand bitchiness in any language.

William Zinsser

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.

William Whewell

Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.

Samuel P. Huntington

Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types of problems as Arabic-speaking Muslims do in Europe.

Samuel P. Huntington

Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

Samuel P. Huntington

The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.

Richard M. Nixon

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Steve Earle

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

James Blake

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

Brooks Yang

We talk about music and how we got involved.

Martina McBride

I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was just different. It was really not very well understood by most of my friends. They didn't tease me about it - they just didn't really relate.

Joe Thomas

I was a little nervous at first. I never played reggae music in my life.

Kelli O'Hara

The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.

King Tuff

Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from buying an MP3.

King Krule

I guess from 12 onwards I was always into my music.

Tim McEachern

The idea started as sort of a joke,

Yotam Ottolenghi

A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.

Robert Jobson

After this sort of start to the year things can only get better.

Larry Ceisler

It's tough, you're a state representative, you're sort of like the little fish.

MacGyver MacGyver

Desperation tends to make one sort of flexible.

Mike Tice

It's sort of unbelievable, if you think about it.

Vince Vaughn

it's sort of my vacation to get on the road.

Dwight Howard

It's sort of like I got it, but I've got to make sure I get a confirmation on it.

Sen Sears

It's sort of like a lifeguard. They may not do anything for years until something happens.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Ryan Reynolds

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

Robert M. Pirsig

There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

Robert Jordan

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

Yoshihiko Noda

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

Arthur Young

Resellers will need an understanding of messaging systems.

Zen Saying

If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.