Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Yang Lan

In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.

Thom Yorke

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.

Ike Barinholtz

We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

Vivek Wadhwa

Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to crowdsource content for the book.

Becky G

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

Bethany Mota

I decided to launch a fragrance because Aeropostale approached me about creating one, and it's something that I kind of always wanted to do but didn't think it would actually happen. So when I heard I had the opportunity to create my own perfume, I got super excited.

Vidya Balan

Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'

Walter Jon Williams

It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.

Raul Grijalva

The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.

Imelda May

I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.

Lee Sullivan

The police begged him to come out of the yard and I heard them telling him to 'drop it,' ... They were pleading with him for maybe 10 minutes. They told him, 'We don't wanna hurt you,' and then I heard one shot.

Dave Davis

That was the introduction. I'd never heard of Matt, and I'm sure he'd never heard of us.

Dwyane Wade

That was the first time I've heard that, so it was good.

Luis Fonsi

That was the first song I heard from another writer when we first started to listen to outside songs,

Ricky Nelson

They all knew my name, but no one heard the music- I didn't look the same.

Mary Harris

We hadn't heard about any for a while and then, all of a sudden, two in one week.

Chip Gramke

We wanted to make sure all of the quotes we've heard from him are accurate. We hoped that they weren't but I think that he proved they probably were.

Hans Davidsson

virtually a living recording of the musical sounds heard hundreds of years ago.

Roger Cox

The announcement you have today is not nearly enough. It's the tip of the iceberg.

Gary Roberts

Nearly all our blokes are locals, but a lot of them work out of town during the week,

Tony Haffer

For rain fans, it's going to be a nearly perfect day.

Paul Gillmor

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

Thomas Powell

What you do is not nearly as important as who you are.

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

Nick Harkaway

I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.

Clive Sinclair

You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.

Tony Prentice

Our whole team wrestled really solid. It was a tough tournament. There were state placers in nearly every weight class.

David S. Goyer

What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'

C. S. Lewis

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Cecelia Ahern

They say a story loses something with each telling.

Cecelia Ahern

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Bill Bryson

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Patricia Polacco

My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

William Shakespeare

A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

Baz Luhrmann

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

Kim Edwards

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.