Famous Quotes & Sayings

Timothy Noah

The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.

Ice Cube

South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.

Zubin Mehta

I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.

Christo

And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.

Bill Cosby

Comedy Central is what these young people are viewing. The network speaks to their audience, which is saying, 'Give me fast jokes. Give me party stories and party language.'

Noah Feldman

Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.

Chris Nelson

The 1980s was the last decade of large suburban expansion. The '90s were a re-sorting era, with the central city gaining population after decades of decline. Now we're in a decade trending toward a fairly large-scale re-sorting of the housing market away from the far reaches of suburbia.

Stephanie Dietz

That was a good redemption game for us. The girls knew that they played poorly the night before and wanted to show Central what we are really made of.

Mark Shand

In the central Indian state of Orissa, mining has scarred the landscape, and it is already too late to secure most of the traditional elephant corridors.

Giles Foden

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

Oliver Thomas

The patchwork the corps did on the Ninth Ward was nowhere near the level they did on 17th Street. It wasn't the same quality work.

Rick Perlstein

Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide in 1972.

Phil Klay

For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home.

Gary Moody

We are not very big. Our linebacking corps has good size. We are not very big on the defensive line and we are not very big in the secondary, but we do have some quickness and we do have some good hitters. We play a fast style of defense. So far, our hitting and our tackling has been really good.

Elie Wiesel

From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.

Studs Terkel

If it weren't for the warm grates we would've had 80 frozen corpses down there during the big blizzard.

Larry Fitzgerald

He's a great person to be around, ... He's a great influence on not only me, but the whole receiving corps and this whole football team. He's going to help us out in the locker room and he's definitely going to help us out on the field.

Turner Gill

He's kind of had some flashes. He'll have a great day and then he'll have some days that are not so good. But it was great to see him come back today in a game-type environment and make some plays for us. We've got to have guys in the receiving corps to step up and make plays for us.

Isamu Akasaki

Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.

Giles Foden

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.

Zubin Mehta

If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

David Walton

Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies.

Gordon Brown

The American and European positions have got to move. It is about making new proposals on agriculture.

Markos Kyprianou

We have already taken all steps necessary. Once it has touched European soil, then we have raised all the measures we should take,

Helen Edell

We have a large selection of European and handmade papers.

Per Stig

We have been very grateful of the support from Spain and the European Union but we also feel we have to do our homework ourselves and not only trust our friends but also trust ourselves.

George Romero

Most of the European money now is off TV, and they're having a hard time now with anything that pushes the envelope.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

Albert Einstein

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Norbert Lammert

The past weeks have shown us how much not only we Germans need this Remembrance Day.

Ulrich Wilhelm

The... allegations are wrong in all their details. The (Federal Intelligence Service) BND, and with it the German government, were unaware of such a plan until now.

Yevgeny Primakov

The American representatives on these inspection operations should not be ousted, but probably they should recruit more international personnel -- from France, Germany and even Russian experts,

Robbie Keane

That was a great result for England, but it has gone and I don't think the Germans will be welling on it when we play them this summer.

Menachem Begin

The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other.

Richard Strauss

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

Richard Strauss

Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.

Ken Simonson

If a substantial percentage of the immigrants took the day away from work, that would have a noticeable impact on construction.

Angelo Amador

If they want to have their wall, fine. What we want is to make sure that we let immigrants in legally.

M.I.A.

I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.

Ted Cruz

We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.

Frank Sharry

But even if we win today, it's only one step. Immigrants pay a lot in taxes and don't get a lot back.

Michael Harrison

Many said that what was going on was terrible, and that immigrants participating should go back to Mexico.

Brad Baldia

This is a very important day for all immigrants and all Americans.

Steve Camarota

Any suggestion that immigrants and natives do fundamentally different kinds of work is just silly.

Arsene Wenger

Nobody will finish above us in the league. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season.

Jerry Porter

We could just petition for a week off. But I don't think the league will let us do that.

Jim Gantt

Typically, this league is not that way. We know we've got to keep improving, and we know teams aren't likely to keep sweeping.

John Wesley

He's got everything - good vision, his speed, his shot, all those intangibles that you need to be a superstar in this league. He has it all.

Lauren Roscoe

We haven't won a league championship in 18 years, so it was important for us to win tonight.

Earl Campbell

You just wonder,'' said one league personnel man.

Ray Harris

I'm shocked we're 19th. I don't think that's right. We have the best-ranked league in the section. Once we get more wins under our belt, we'll move up.

Don Phillips

The problem is the overall league suffers if you don't have stars,

Terrell Buckley

It doesn't surprise me, because this is a league that has a short memory.

J. Horton

If they want to get into the pockets of this school district, I am not going to vote for it.

Charles Lamb

Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.

Andrew Jackson

I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets.

Mark Latham

Macklin is as useful as pockets in your underpants.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

Eddie Vedder

Gave her love away, put it in my pocket when it should of been framed!

Charles Spurgeon

Feel for others - in your pocket

Dan Rather

They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.

Ian Fleming

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

Gene Taylor

I was there ? and I didn't recall seeing you there,

Mark Baldassare

He was able to do it two years ago in the recall election, and that's what he's trying to do again.

Paul Cavalluzzo

I don't ever recall receiving any instructions with respect to caveats being down,

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

George Thompson

I thought volume trends were good. And the recall seems to be a thing of the past.

Anna Akhmatova

I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.

Don McLean

Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?

Ambrose Bierce

recollect, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.

Rudy Langford

The recall failed. Let's have another recall on (Election Day) May 2.

Mike Shula

We've got some work to do. I think we made a small step.

Richard Cate

Most of my years there were only two of us in my grade. So I know something about small schools.

Milton McGregor

You'll have big winners, and you'll have small winners.

Ang Lee

I thought it was a small work of love. I never thought it would play like this.

Lilly Singh

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

Aaron Sanchez

I think I can find a house, ... but a small house.

John Armato

But as a district, we?re not too small and we?re not too big to try this, we?re just about right.

Scott Kahan

For small investors, they probably aren't the place to be.

Jean Prewitt

If anything is going to get around a quota, it is those big projects. What is not going to make it in, is the smaller product.