Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yael Grobglas

Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

Yanis Varoufakis

In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.

Tina Brown

Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away.

Ice T

My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.

Idris Elba

If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'

Isobelle Carmody

I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.

Gavyn Davies

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.

Donald Trump

You've seen my statements; I do very well. I don't mind paying some taxes. The middle class is getting clobbered in this country. You know the middle class built this country, not the hedge fund guys, but I know people in hedge funds that pay almost nothing, and it's ridiculous, OK?

Zadie Smith

It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'

Billy Graham

I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I'm still sort of an invalid now.

Gabriela Mistral

Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.

Bee Wilson

A recipe is not an exact formula, but it does need a certain structure. When the bones are right, you can dress it in many ways.

Bonnie Bassler

I went to UC Davis because I wanted to be a vet. It's a great profession if it's right for you, but it's memorizing the bones and the muscles, and I am terrible at stuff like that. Also, there's a lot of blood and gore involved.

Brittany Snow

I was 85 lbs. at my 2000 homecoming dance. But I wanted my collarbones and hip bones to show more. I'd feel my hip bones to make sure they were out. If not, I had more weight to lose. I lost my period until I was 17. I loved that. It meant I wasn't healthy, and I didn't want to be healthy.

Christien Meindertsma

I discovered that bone china was a British invention, which had been developed by a pottery sited next to a slaughterhouse - 'bone' china, of course, contains bones, though we are inclined to forget that.

Christien Meindertsma

In interior decorating, the pig's actually quite there. It's used in paint for the texture, but also for the glossiness. In sandpaper, bone glue is actually the glue between the sand and the paper. And then in paintbrushes, hairs are used because, apparently, they're very suitable for making paintbrushes because of their hard-wearing nature.

F. Sionil Jose

Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny, not funny as crude slapstick.

Joe Carnahan

'The A-Team' compared to making 'Narc' was a breeze. There's a whole other skill set and whole other kind of bone structure that goes into making a movie like 'Narc' versus 'The A-Team.'

Isambard K. Brunel

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

Ellen Key

On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between two logical views of the universe: the Catholic-Christian and the Individualistic Monist. And bridges are made to go over, not to stand upon.

Anthony Storr

Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.

Shannon Staub

My business New Year's resolution is to work as hard as I can to build bridges and better relationships with our municipalities. I figure that one is big enough to take the whole year.

Ernesto Butcher

When the bridge first opened, October 25, 1931, that first year, 5.5 million vehicles used the bridge. Last year 110 million vehicles used the bridge.

Anquan Boldin

We haven't really talked about it right now. There were a couple of suggestions thrown out, but I guess we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

Rick Mason

Just because a bridge has structural deficiencies doesn't mean it's unsafe. It merely means it's deteriorating.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

Dan DiDio

We got the opportunity to work with Bryan Singer and they wanted to create a bridge between the original movie and this new one.

Zac Efron

Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.

Andy Nash

That would put us on the dry side of the system.

Jerry Wood

We just didn't have any rainfall all year long. It's been mighty dry here.

Kristina Wilfore

Typically off-year elections are used for two things: one is a sort of testing ground, as a dry run for the next year. And two: you get a real eclectic mix of issues that don't have an over-arching theme but that's a little different this year.

Mohamed El-Erian

Simply put, investors should own less equities, more bonds, more global investments, more cash and more dry ammunition.

Dale Jarrett

You like to think every time you come here you have that opportunity at least, but you look at it and we've had kind of a dry spell as far as running well here. We've won some poles and things, but that's not really what we're after.

Ryan Howard

Just keeping it real. I was at home. I think they were taking it out and were just getting ready to dry it.

Bob Farrell

We haven't had rain for three weeks and everything is dry so they should be very careful.

Paul Desmond

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted it to sound like a dry martini.

Danielle Brown

We've had floods before, ... but nothing like this where houses sat in water for two, three weeks.

Ed Silliere

Some of those refineries in Texas, they're at sea level. It's a table top, it floods every easily.

Rick Barry

We know what it's like to go through something like this, with the Hurricane Ivan floods last year,

Susan Wilson

During the floods of '93 and '95, there were opportunities that surfaced where we could improve the integrity of the levee.

Pat Buchanan

The Mississippi River is like immigration--it's enormously nourishing . . . but if it floods its banks, it can become a problem. And that is what's happened here.

Inez Fung

It's one thing to say when it's going to rain, but how do we know when there's going to be a flood? We're still not good at predicting floods or droughts, but we hope that's just one out of many things our model can help us predict.

Gordon Sinclair

As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.

Mike Easley

These floods are going to be worse than anticipated yesterday.

Antoine Lavoisier

It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.

Russell Schweickart

That (will be) an impossible task, I'll tell you right now.

Ken Crump

We're still trying to stay under the radar. It's impossible right now.

The Grimm

I thought it would be impossible for somebody to get that unlucky again. So much went wrong; they had everything but locusts.

Becca Fitzpatrick

What I really wanted was the impossible.

B. J. Novak

Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I still have to say that I did 'Dirty Pretty Things' 11 years ago. That was a very sudden shift in my life and my relationship to my work, and it didn't feel it was impossible to make a film like that.

George Burley

ongoing issue which has proved impossible to resolve.

Mike Evans

I wouldn't have travel plans. If this thing pans out, it may be practically impossible to go anywhere.

Tim Anderson

I think that the stock's probably washed out for a while,

Joe Baker

Between Avon and Buxton, it's completely washed out.