Famous Quotes & Sayings

Imelda May

I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.

S. E. Hinton

'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.

Chloe Grace Moretz

Well, I used to have a sister, but I never got to meet her because she died after two days, I think. So if I got a tattoo, it would probably have to be something to do with my sister. I actually want to get a tattoo when I'm older of something about her.

F. Sionil Jose

From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by Pali, but even Pali died, too. Linguists say the only ancient language which was resuscitated from the grave was Hebrew of Israel.

Raymond Domenech

We could have died if we had not reacted after the break,

Horace

Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died

Rosecrans Baldwin

My grandmother died from Alzheimer's, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it is not an easy closure. It's not a gradual fading. The person is losing so much of their humanity as they're dying. Losing your memories, you lose so much of who you are as a person.

Gary Hopkins

Most of the people died during the storm and the aftermath, ... These were old or extremely ill patients.

Rob Pike

When Steve Jobs died last week, there was a huge outcry, and that was very moving and justified.

Youssou N'Dour

I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.

Hud Venerable

I thought he was at least the co-MVP in the league last year. It looks like he's stronger and he's running harder than he did a year ago. He's an elite player, and he's got a nice group of blockers in front of him. He's powerful, fast and he can cut. He's got the whole package.

Todd Jones

The problem is, when you think about it, saves are the only stat where 100 percent is the benchmark. And the elite make it look so easy. There is so much to it.

Lamar Butler

We didn't come this far just to settle. Nobody on this team wants to settle for the Elite Eight.

Dumarsais Simeus

From what I heard on the radio all day, with the prospect of Preval being president, the elite is already lining up and getting ready to derail him and keep him from governing.

Billy Taylor

Joe and Jose are elite players in our program. But that?s not enough. We need others to step up.

Annika Sorenstam

I think I played really well this week, ... This is an elite field and I am competitive. I stepped up this week.

Bobby Burton

(Hunter is) one of the top players in the country, and you're talking about a guy who has scholarship offers from around the country. I think the thing that separates him from other linebackers is he doesn't have just good speed for a linebacker, he has elite speed and he still has that size, too.

Bob Francis

He can take it as far as he wants to. He has elite skills.

Aron Ralston

I stepped out of my grave and into my life again.

Jonathan Schwartz

I think Scott will go to his grave as a Sun employee.

A. Johnson

We record the reflections, and the reflections will tell us where the graves are.

Sir Blair

On Monday, if this (bill) is not passed, these men will be released. I think that would be a grave threat to national security.

Donald Davis

Today is like a reunion, ... I've met a lot of people at the grave itself through the years.

Jalal Talabani

He killed people to protect them, ... He put hundreds of thousands of people in mass graves to protect Iraq.

Dave Otto

He'd probably be laughing in his grave about what the kids are doing here.

Sarah Newton

If this hurricane had not happened we would not have had to spend money to do this work. But now, without their participation, we would be in grave danger.

William Shakespeare

I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me.

Caroline Leavitt

I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my mother took me, the kids there all knew each other, and somehow I was even more of an outcast.

Amos Oz

There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.

Cynthia Ozick

Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the language of the Bible.

Shane Claiborne

I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).

Rebecca Zeffert

These are things that we wouldn't normally read about in the Hebrew press.

Puff Daddy

You should do what we do, stack chips like Hebrews.

John Flavel

The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

Carl Orff

The subject matter covered in Carmina stays pretty basic: love, lust, the pleasures of drinking and the heightened moods evoked by springtime. These primitive and persistently relevant themes are nicely camouflaged by the Latin and old German texts, so the listener can actually feign ignorance while listening to virtually X-rated lyrics. (Veni Veni Venias! Come, come come now!)The music itself toggles between huge forces and a single voice, juxtaposing majesty and intimacy with ease...

Carl Sagan

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

Bill Bryson

English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.

Nic Harcourt

You just don't see alternative Latin performers on TV.

William Shakespeare

Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings

Donald Johanson

We are placed in the genus of Homo, which is Latin for man - Homo sapiens: supposedly wise men. I sometimes think - wonder - whether we really are wise men.

Xavier Niel

France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.

Sebastian Pinera

I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that is a mistake.

David Crystal

English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.

Randy Huth

We used to have a singer but he didn't work out and we never replaced him. We all do vocals on the record, and live, we, me and Joel, split it up.

Doug Cole

Other things can be replaced ... but not photos.

Robert Reich

We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.

Gavin Smith

We don't want them to evacuate the Coast, if you will, and be replaced with high-rise condominiums.

Andrew Tyndall

Interviewing has replaced reporting as the high-profile position.

Lois Lowry

As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.

Greg Smith

The technology really only replaced the broker or a telephone.

Jon Alterman

The roadmap is inoperative and nothing has replaced it.

Idina Menzel

Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.

Poe Ballantine

I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

Robert Battle

I studied martial arts before I studied dance.

Edward Brooke

I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.

Steven Blair

We've studied this from many perspectives in women and in men, and we get the same answer: It's not the obesity, it's the fitness.

Flea

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

Marcelo Balboa

I never really studied the game. I just watched tape of who I had to cover. That was my studying.