Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Hong

As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

Jim Bowers

After looking at all of the 500 pieces, I think they were either some sort of game pieces or were used for trading by Chinese workers. I lean toward the game pieces, though.

Tom Verlaine

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

Zhang Xin

It's a good thing that it is getting simpler to register a company in China, it is good that the exchange rate of our currency is getting more flexible and that it's getting easier for Chinese businesspeople to travel. All of this opens up our economy.

John Beckman

This is where we showcase cultural holidays such as Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Chinese New Year and the Winter Solstice.

M. Wolfe

There's every reason to think this will be a successful mission. The Chinese are good at rocketry.

Howard Rubel

There's an order coming from the Chinese and I think more people are realizing that Boeing has done a nice job of managing its business.

Yao Bin

It was on Jan. 28, the Chinese New Year, the first time he landed. Since then he has landed about 20. Every day he just tries one or two.

Joss Whedon

It was really fun, ... Though I did discover that the Chinese language can say a lot with very few syllables, which was a nightmare for me as I had to keep writing longer and longer curses so my actors would say something which didn't sound like 'Nah.'

John Varley

We have delivered what we said we would deliver, ... We have got very strong profit growth in a number of our businesses.

Ben Wagner

We are very excited to be a part of this project. Our team delivered a site that was designed under tight parameters and deadlines. It's always great to be involved in a project that will excite and embrace users.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Jan Popa

A few personal photos are OK, but it's pretty hard for people to walk by a wedding picture without looking at it.

Karen Evans

A few of the service providers did not do what they said they were going to do.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Rivers Cuomo

I've done a few things on the side here and there, but there is not much reason to do so in a sustained way. I'm generally able to say what I want to say within the context of Weezer.

Dean Winters

I've done a few jobs out there for the money, and I find those jobs have come back to haunt me.

Retief Goosen

I've been putting very well all week, seeing the greens very well. I started playing better in the last few events. It was nice to have a good week.

Alice B. Toklas

But I don't want nutrition. I want food!

Diogenes

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

Samuel Johnson

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Samuel Johnson

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Wendell Berry

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

Robinson Cano

Playing in New York is special to me because you are surrounded by so many communities and a strong Latin community, including the Washington Heights neighborhood. I come to Washington Heights for real Dominican food that reminds me of my hometown, and it's a great place to visit.

Jose Andres Puerta

I prefer natural hardwood lump charcoal - the other stuff makes your food taste like Goodyear tires.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Curtis Armstrong

I've been going to this high school for 7 and 1/2 years, I'm no dummy.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

Rich Olson

That took the wind out of our sails. It just made the hill a lot higher to climb.

Cheng Chin

At the moment, I don't see how this can be done at much higher temperatures.

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Benigno Aquino III

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Brad Friedel

Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are no grey areas, with success or failure being measured in real time; and you have a physical job which you can only do well by paying attention to your mental well-being. A great goalkeeper has to have the keys to a great mindset. To be able to work well in the box, I believe you have to be able to think outside the box

Cameron Diaz

I'm honestly so grateful to have a job when I get a job, I'm always amazed - I just appreciate what I have when I get it.

Elizabeth Strout

My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.

Jeffrey Sachs

Russia increasingly lived on short-term borrowing. Now, this was an extraordinary merry-go-round.

Jan Jones

He was young and naive. We lived in a different world in 1993.

Andrew Marvell

Had it lived long, it would have been / Lilies without, roses within.

John Kraft

They were the first people that lived here in your town.

Sherwin B. Nuland

The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives.

Bob Friend

This is not a pep rally. It's telling the miners and the mine operators themselves to work right and make the right decisions.

Anna Kournikova

When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.

Angus MacMillan

Mine production is nowhere near what we thought it would be at the start of the year.

J. C. Watts

Most of the compositions (on the album) are originals of mine or tunes that I really like to play.

Bible Bible

How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

Bill Caylor

It's important that we monitor these miners with problems.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Pam Brown

People can sip tea and have a little tidbit to eat.

Ed Rollins

People don't view him as a Republican or Democrat, and he has the resources to run without having to worry about funding.

Brent Carpenter

People don't understand the law, and they get in a hurry.

John Waters

People don't understand how this water went, and people don't understand this bridge.

Matt Eastwood

People don't throw out technology for no reason.

Kevin Spacey

People don't tend to hassle me because when I've got a hat on, I look like a banker. I'm just a plain guy.

Jim Miller

People don't shop the way they used to. We had to throw in the towel.

Evan Osnos

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

Lou Holtz

There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.

Chris Isaak

I put music on and I drive around town.

Steve Zahn

I lived in Minnesota in a small town.

Ewan McGregor

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.