Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Dunn

I think what really turned a lot of people on, when we saw him play basketball, he was that big and that fluent that they couldn't push him out of the paint, ... He could rebound. He could jump.

Ellie Kemper

I ended up majoring in English, which I'm not particularly fluent in.

David Shambaugh

They are fluent Russian speakers. They have a perspective on Russia that the previous generation, Mao and even Deng Xiaoping, did not have. Mao and Deng were much more suspicious of Russia. This generation is suspicious of the West.

Rick Torres

Bridgeport now has a head of the Republican Party who is fluent in Spanish, which demonstrates that we welcome Hispanics and other minorities.

Ruth Hubbard

Even if you become fluent in a second language, you don't understand it the same as the language you grew up with and that your mother spoke to you in.

Newt Gingrich

Less than 10% of our analysts of North Korea are fluent in Korean.

Will Ferrell

I might be more fluent in Swedish than I am in Spanish. My wife speaks it to our kids, and they're fluent so I hear it all the time, so I've got that under my belt.

Peter Morgan

I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.

William S. Burroughs

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

Ronald Reagan

We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.

Zinedine Zidane

Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.

Darren Star

In the moment when you're doing a show, you're thinking of that moment, but you don't think of, 'Here's down the line how people will be relating to the characters.' There's something very universal about 'Sex and the City' that people are still tapping into, where every generation seems to be discovering for itself.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

It is quite possible that future generations will look upon arguments about the inferiority of the socialist plan as we look upon Adam Smith's argument about joint stock companies which, also, were simply false.

Hemant Mehta

This is money going on I, me, myself. A generation ago, there's no way that the Indian male would have been spending this sort of money on his looks.

Ellen Goodman

This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.

Nelly Furtado

Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.

Margaret Thatcher

I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be.

J. C. Watts

I have friends who didn't turn 60. As you get older, your perspective clears.

Rob Halford

Never lose perspective on where you are and what you've got. And how you got it.

William Wordsworth

For all things are less dreadful than they seem.

Robert Plant

I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.

Wayne Thiebaud

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

Wesley Snipes

Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.

Wayne Coyne

Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy.

Khalil Gibran

The highest virtue here may be least in another world.

Kerry Washington

Whenever I talk to survivors [of a domestic abuse relationship] who have lived through that and are on the other side and their whole perspective on life is a complete 180, I'm just so inspired.

Sanjaasuren Oyun

It was stupid to oust the previous government. It's illogical.

Ansyaad Mbai

The modus operandi is very similar to the previous bombings.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

This is what happened to me when I received the governorship. The corrupt previous governor didn't do the handover. We received the Miranda governorship completely dismantled.

Mikhail Bakunin

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

Ronald Reagan

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

PJ Crowley

It's NATO's view that Russian troops should not deploy until all the arrangements have been completed.

Bill Cleary

The Russians were the ogres then, you know. Mysterious.

Maelle Gavet

The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that!

Henry Cejudo

You see a lot of Russian wrestlers winning titles at 18, 19 and 20. Why can't I do it?

Anna Kournikova

When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?

Kirk Shireman

Between us and our Russian partners, we're going to do the right thing.

Mikhail Bakunin

From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.

Bill Forsyth

Financiers are suspicious because I work in low-budget.

Gail Collins

I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.