Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Trillin

The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.

Stephen Corry

Would people still use the same demeaning language talking about European gypsies or immigrants? It is fundamentally an old, 19th-century throwback to the idea that that these people are somehow like our ancestors, or backward. It conveys that they are somehow not as intelligent as we are; that they haven't progressed as far as we have. It is fundamentally a colonial mentality.

Harold MacMillan

A colonial governor who ran out of countries.

Martin Jacques

For 200 years, the dominant powers have also been the colonial powers: the European countries, the U.S. and Japan. They have never been required to pay their dues for what they did to those whom they possessed and treated with contempt.

Henry Bates

It is, perhaps, not generally known that the Portuguese, as early as 1710, had a fair knowledge of the Amazons; but the information gathered by their Government, from various expeditions undertaken on a grand scale, was long withheld from the rest of the world, through the jealous policy which ruled in their colonial affairs.

Victor Diaz

It is technically a Colonial, but not the type of Colonial you may imagine. It is very open inside.

Tommy Amaker

They're a team that's already played in a different venue. They've gone on the road to win a couple games in this tournament, which shows toughness on their part. ? What the Colonial conference has done this season, certainly, this is a team that needs to be reckoned with.

Dan Gilligan

Product that goes on the Colonial down in the Gulf takes at least 20 days to get up here to Washington, D.C., with normal transportation times.

Curtis Blair

That's great for the Colonial conference. It's also great for mid-majors. I'm really happy for Mason.

Graeme Souness

The other pleasing points are that we've got through and won a tie 5-1 when we've played, first after only two weeks, and then after only 17 days of training.

Robert Kabushenga

The posters are depicting government in a negative light and this comes only a few days to the polling day.

Rick Michaels

We are pleased that we were able to reach record production levels, despite losing several days due to the holidays.

Dusty Baker

There are days when you don't have your premier stuff,

Donna Wisniewski

There are days they pick up two or three, but there's days that they come in with over 40 of them.

Walt Harris

There are days the offensive line looks like they're putting it together. At times we see the light at the end of the tunnel. They're starting to respond, but they've got to grow up fast.

Jody Conradt

There are days it's really been fun. And there are days when it's really been, well ... trying.

Karen Allen

There are days he just reads my mind.

Nicky Byrne

There are some days when you just want to push Shane off his chair.

Alan Paton

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

Alan Moore

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!

John Tortorella

We've won one game, that is it. I think what we did is just turn this into a series. ... As the series goes on, you have to play better. We know Ottawa is going to play better the third game.

Edward Hopper

When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!

John M. Ford

The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.

Jack Horner

where it actually goes from land into the water.

Nigel Barker

My go-to necktie is jet black, skinny, and simple. It goes with everything. I really like that mod-ish punk look.

Mel Rapozo

When you talk to the officers, it's pretty bad. Every day that goes by without some intervention, it's getting worse.

Bill Maher

There is good news. Scientists sent a probe down there in the Gulf of Mexico today and they found traces of seawater.

Richard LaBounty

We bounced back after a tough loss to Gulf Breeze. I'm very proud of our approach.

Jeb Bush

As Rita moves into the Gulf of Mexico, we are looking to ... make sure that people can get back into their homes as quickly as possible in the Keys.

Bill Parsons

You can't just watch it on TV and get a feel for the devastation that I have seen down here on the Gulf Coast. It's just unbelievable.

Diana Nyad

The highs were high, the awe, I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you, to be in the azure blue of the Gulf Stream as if, as you're breathing, you're looking down miles and miles and miles, to feel the majesty of this blue planet we live on, it's awe-inspiring.

Doug Leggate

Any storm going through the Gulf is going to slow the pace of the recovery from Katrina.

Tony Nunan

The situation is unclear because output is still down in the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. refineries are having problems.

Tetsu Emori

Everyone's just looking at Rita. It's more psychological right now. But if Rita comes to the Gulf of Mexico and disrupts supply, then we have a problem.

Ross Gelbspan

There's no question that the warm waters of the Gulf provided the heat that turned Katrina into a major storm.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

Scott Carpenter

We've all bowled at Cadillac, but today wasn't like the normal Cadillac. It was a very playable shot but just a little different.

Joe Johnson

We started off very poorly. But we know what we can do. We just settled down and played our normal game.

Hans Fischer

Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable quantities of coproporphyrin.

Max Miller

We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.

Charles Manson

I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.

Carl Jung

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

J. Taylor

would be normal for these indictments to dropped.

Cheech Marin

Every medium has its own projection, and I find animation is much bigger than normal.

Bob Turner

There are some big inventories out there. The new products that they have talked about aren't out for another quarter or so. So it's probably going to be more of the same for some time.

Barry Diller

We're ready to compete. We're very serious about this. Search evolves. We have a product that I think is part of that.

Shelly Lombard

It's just the wrong product at the wrong time.

Robert Porter

It's a solid result in terms of our production figures.

Tim Ghriskey

A lot of the higher-margin products are doing well.

Rich Lechner

It's not only being used for development purposes, but also being used in production environments very heavily.

Jose Ferreira

It's not enough to have a value-adding product in a big market. You also need the right conditions. Will you be able to scale revenues within a 5-10 year time frame? Is the timing right? YouTube wouldn't have worked pre-broadband.

Dave Barry

I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: “How can I get in on that?

Al Gore

As befits our relationship in the 21st century, our communications were by e-mail. I don't want to do a product promotion, but it was by BlackBerry.

Eric Duncan

It still takes some getting used to. You walk around here and you see some pretty big names.

Karel Amaranth

It really takes a village. We're all responsible for all children.

Jane Smith

This kind of work takes too much time. Mine's all needlework.

Eido Carney

It's at least 15 years. It takes that long.

Charlotte Observer

After all, it takes 18 to 20 years to 'grow a child.'

Craig Colten

The whole thing takes a long, long time.

Tom Kloza

The wheels are in motion. It just takes a while for it to deluge into retail.

Jessica White

Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline.

Hines Ward

Each and every day, Jerome is always teaching me something, what it takes to be a professional athlete. That's why I want to win it more for him than for myself.