Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Rowe

He used to be bigger. It's kind of like Charles Barkley. If you can play with it, don't mess with it.

Quincy Jones

I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.

H. Hunt

He's been a great friend to the St. Charles Singers.

Robert Gottlieb

'River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance.

Joe Adams

Despite his enormous success, artistically and financially, Ray Charles was a humble man,

Sandra Tsing Loh

Approaching 50, I am living a life that is less sunlit Waldman/Chabon than tattered Charles Bukowski.

Jeff Kinney

There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I'm a novelist churning out books, who is eight into a series; the other way is that I'm a cartoonist, just starting out. Most cartoonists have long careers: Charles Schulz drew Peanuts for 50 years.

John Tucker

What we interpret here has a major impact on the American life we have today. We have the Constitution and Charles Pinckney, we have the Revolutionary War and Fort Moultrie and we have the Civil War here at Fort Sumter.

Mr Bush

There is a process to get Charles Taylor to the court in the Netherlands.

William Daley

I think it is important that China be in the WTO. But they must come in a commercially-meaningful way. And that means that their market has to be open for U.S. products to be sold into.? They should live by the rules the rest of the world lives by.

Li Jian

Hitler used the Olympics to show his people that his government had legitimacy. The Chinese government wants a similar result: that countries recognize that China is a great and powerful country.

Tim Adams

I think it's important for us to get a better sense of China overall,

O. Henry

We think China is a growing regional power and we want to partner with them to manage their gradual rise.

Zhou Xiaochuan

I think it's very clear that China is introducing a new exchange rate mechanism. It is not a one-time adjustment.

Ping Chew

If you look at what most other money going into China is earning, it is not that inefficient. If you don't invest in U.S. bonds, what do you invest in?

Shi Yinhong

In the future, China will provide more international public goods in many areas.

Phil Crane

In telecommunications, China represents the largest potential market in the world,

Tom Jaine

Civet of hare in the south China seas! 'Gosh, Gertrude, let's go have some civet of hare, it's really cold out there.

George Beranek

It also helps that Chinese contractors tend to do the work on their projects.

Hu Jia

I think it's ironic that the way the Chinese government prepares to host the United Nations Commission on Human Rights is by placing dissidents under house arrest.

Bill Gates

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement...access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.

Zhiwu Chen

Having Chinese leaders come to Yale is a good way (to create) more understanding between the two societies.

Robin Williams

The Chinese had accused the Tibetans of being terrorists, which is weird. A Tibetan terrorist is like an Amish hacker. It just doesn't fit.

Zhou Xun

Being an actress in China, Im actually a very lucky actress... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.

Zhang Yimou

I must stick with Chinese language films.

Zhuangzi

The World is Large - Its beauty indescrible.

Evan Wilson

I was intrigued by the opportunity to live and experience a country less well off than ours. And see firsthand the problems that plague a developing nation.

Brian France

I would vote no. Other people in our organization would like to see it. But I like distinguishing the elite division in the country with a unique way of settling the championship.

Ifzal Ali

Just look at the organized sector of the economy in a country such as India, which employs less than 10 percent of workforce, you are worrying about this when there is a multitude of people completely being bypassed.

Brian Martin

I think it's a great idea, there are a lot of different cultures in the fire departments throughout the country. It's a neat idea.

Otton Solis

I think it is a very delicate moment for the country and we are going to wait until the end, until the electoral tribunal has processed all the votes because with such a small difference, anything can happen.

Silvio Berlusconi

Italy will always be grateful to the United States for what this country has been doing to free us from totalitarianism in the past century,

Tony Greig

Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.

John Cornyn

What worries me more than anything else is this mind-set that once people go to Mexico there's nothing law enforcement in this country can do.

Bruce Anderson

Hawaii is leading the country in development of offshore aquaculture. It's been done well here, with minimal environmental impact.

Andre Previn

I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.

John Hanson

It's great having a former Governor step up -- we're honored to have her as part of the team.

Kerry Healey

I don't think it's really good once you've lost an election to sit around, watch your former opponent, and swipe at them.

Seth Godin

We've had people who were yoga instructors. ... We have a former marine, and we have everything in between,

Reggie Evans

I didn't say anything because there's love between me and my former teammates. It wasn't anything personal, what all went down. I'm glad they traded me.

Cedomir Jovanovic

We have to remove the judges who were the spearhead of the former regime.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.

Werner Arber

In the 1950s, the Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Geneva was lucky enough to receive each summer for several months the visit of Jean Weigle. He was the former professor of experimental physics at the University of Geneva.

Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Quincy Jones

After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.

Mary Wittenberg

Our races are to our sport what Wimbledon and the Australian, U.S. and French Opens are to tennis.

Abu Bakar Bashir

Indonesians must understand that there is no Islamic state without the enforcement of Islamic laws. Otherwise it is just talk and nothing else.

Jean Alesi

I'm not sure they understand everything about racing cars. I am not sure that this is wise.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Saeb Erekat

The French report did not indicate any of these things,

Jacques Chirac

The French people stand with all their hearts at the side of the American people,

Carey Perloff

The French love stark plays about power and sexuality,

Algis Shalna

I think we would be happy to (see her) get into the top 20. We have to at some point be realistic.

Shay Carl

I think a lot of the world searches in vain for happiness in ways that will not bring them happiness.

Jim Rayfield

I think this play is, in a sense, the father's story. We see him go from a state of happiness - he's content; he has his son; he's okay - to the end, where he is totally lost.

Carl Jung

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.

Virginia Woolf

Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

William Wordsworth

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

William Wordsworth

Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

William Saroyan

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

William J. Clinton

You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey.

David Franks

I will not work with them. I'll work with other breeders. We'll do our own thing, but right now it's a living we're making, a living here. And if there doing that we'll find out someday. The truth will come out.

Virender Sehwag

One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.

Bruce Brown

I'm living in the middle of a nightmare.

Carol Wood

We're living in a different world now. We have lots of security measures in place.

James Ellis

It's no longer a museum piece. She's actually a living ship.

Dick Durbin

Evergreen tenants should not have to spend another day living in substandard conditions,

Steve Berry

It's sobering. Living in the Midwest, you don't feel nearly as vulnerable, but it's these times when we probably feel the most vulnerable.

Luis Ramirez

It's been hard, we've been living day by day. We don't have any place to live, to work, nothing.

Brad Dennis

It's important to know who's living around us, and what's living around us.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

John Edwards

It is actually the responsibility of the president of the U.S. to be able to do two things at the same time,

Gary Chaison

I think that (AFL-CIO President John) Sweeney will have to make a strong statement about the AFL-CIO and how it's strong and still relevant.

Dale Bills

He was strong and vibrant and it was vintage President Hinckley.

Ryan Lochte

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

Woodrow Wilson

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

Woodrow Wilson

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

William McKinley

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

William J. Clinton

I did not have sexual relations with that woman

Sarah Palin

It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.