Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesse Jackson

The tallest tree in the history of African American journalism has fallen, but has fallen gracefully. The tree that stood tall for over 60 years and a tree that planted a forest, a tree with widespread limbs and full of fruit. He connected to Africa and African Americans. He shared the pain of Emmett Till, the development of Martin Luther King Jr., and was a source of information and inspiration. He was the number one black publisher for 60 years. His impact had been felt through the whole world of journalism.

Paul Rusesabagina

Africa needs you, ... to break out a dialogue. I'm telling you this because you in the West are lucky, you vote for your own leaders.

Chris Johns

Africa isn't one place. It's a million places. We felt that no single photograph could cover the depth of Africa.

Steve Jones

This is a process, not an event. It's not going to happen over night. It's clear that we as African American men are unique and only we can articulate what it's like to attend a private college. But all of us would also agree that it was worth it, that we are successful today because of it.

Milton Bradley

This is a special moment for baseball, a special moment for African Americans. Just like it is every time April 15 comes up. I think last year was really special because I was wearing the uniform that Jackie wore.

Eric Holder

While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where he was in uniform, and was told that African Americans, blacks, Negros, were not served. And in spite of that, I've never known a man who loved this country more than my father did.

Kgalema Motlanthe

I know exactly what I will do. I will go and work with the Congress of South African Students.

Gerald Majola

Cricket South Africa welcomes this tough public stance taken by Cricket Australia in the fight against racism. Our players need to be protected against racism and we hope that these new measures will ensure this in Melbourne and Sydney.

Allan Donald

Cricket South Africa did indicate they would try and get me more involved with the national team and give me more of a hands-on role.

Mike Grier

As badly as it is, it's effective what he does out there. He draws penalties. He gets under the other team's skin. So I think we are all aware of how he plays the game. It's just something you have to deal with when you play against him.

Stuart Pearce

As a young man trying to make your way in life, you feel your back is against the wall and you are scrapping against the whole world,

Joe Thompson

As it turned out, I guess that onside kick wasn't the best thing to open the half, but I was looking for some spark to get our emotion going and allow us to compete, ... We just made too many mistakes, and you can't do that against a team like this. You have to be able to play at a high energy level and with hope, and we couldn't get anything going to give us that hope.

Enrique Manzanilla

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Daniel Tammet

Our thoughts and our feelings, of course, are not wholly objective, they're inherently subjective. And that's the danger, and I think as long as we're aware of it and can push back against it, I don't think that these two views are necessarily incompatible.

Rhonda Rompola

Our slow start in the first half hurt us. We dug ourselves a hole against a very, very good team.

Wayne Grant

Our defense is playing real good right now. The punt return team gave up the touchdown. The defense played real well against Troy. They had two big plays for their touchdowns. Other than that, we didn't give up much. I feel a lot better our defense than I did this time last year.

Lori Walker

Our defense has played against Tiff Weimer for four years now, Melissa Miller and Emily Francis know her, and they are going to be the two responsible for trying to handle her. She is a pretty difficult player to contain, and it starts with just containing her. She is a hell of a talent, it's an honor for us to have her here in her senior year and have this opportunity to play with her.

Mark Brunell

Our defense has been good all year, but offensively, the biggest difference is that we're running the ball. That makes everything a lot easier. But it's going to have to be one of our best days for us to have a chance against this team.

John Rothfield

A shakeout in the commodity market in the near-term may weigh on the Australian dollar. We see further downside risk.

Peter Beattie

The Cadbury Schweppes Australian PGA Championship celebrates its Centenary this year so it's pleasing to see our top Australian players coming out in force to support the event,

Mark Vaile

Australian service suppliers and investors in sectors such as legal, financial and professional services, telecoms, education and environmental services will be the main beneficiaries of the FTA,

Stephen Roberts

The start of a higher import price trend implies higher Australian inflation ahead.

Khalil Gibran

Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.

Keith Urban

We go to Australia with LeAnn Rimes for a couple of weeks in October. We have a lot of shows between now and the end of the year.

Tony Pearson

If it hadn't been for the mining boom, Australia might be in a recession now.

Katie Mactier

I was so hoping my beloved Saints would get there but I'm still thrilled to be part of one of the great days on the Australian sports calendar.

Mike McKenzie

She went to Australia first semester (to study) and didn't come back with enough hours to be eligible.

Trafalgar Square

Say it loud, we're cricket lovers and proud.

Ryk Neethling

The win had a huge impact on us. The next morning we were all walking tall. My little sister is on the team and a little unsure of herself here, as are some of the younger swimmers. I told her that she should look at what the cricket team did. Anything is possible, you don't know what you can do or what can happen.

Matthew Hoggard

The World Cup is a massive event for world cricket and we need to start winning. We've shown hints of what we can do and over the next three games we've got to throw everything into it.

Samir Inamdar

Cricket Kenya has started afresh and we are not ready to think of the past and forward and improve the standards of the sport in the country.

Trevor Hohns

Brett is an exciting prospect who has good height and is able to generate good bounce. He has had solid results in domestic cricket and we want to have a look at him at the next level.

Bob Woolmer

But as he walks away he can be proud that many people all around the world are sad to see him go - cricket will be poorer without him.

Sven Eriksson

If you are a Swede living in Sweden, Portugal and Italy you don't know much about cricket. We don't understand, we have never played it. If you live in England, you should go to see it at least once to know something about it.

Imran Khan

Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

John Read

It is an evolving situation and we will do whatever the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board) tells us.

Kacey Musgraves

I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.

Wasim Bari

We have included two new spinners as part of our buildup for next year's World Cup in the West Indies.

Wasim Bari

We have included two new spinners as part of our build-up for next year's World Cup in the West Indies.

Jesse Owens

You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn't be a plating on the 24-carat friendship I felt for Long at that moment.

Rick Riordan

That's it, cupcake. You're going down.

Sri Aurobindo

The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

No! I don’t want to Ouija, or do the pendulum thing, and I swear if I see one tarot card or rune stone I’ll yack cupcake all over you. (Grace)

Mo Johnston

Magnificent. He's been magnificent all season. There is a door open now for the World Cup and I hope he's on it because of his performance here, not only tonight, but throughout his time here has been tremendous.

Sven Eriksson

I am thrilled by this hotel. We have a training pitch five minutes from the hotel and it is not too far for our World Cup matches.

Chelan Simmons

Every girl/woman in the world has flaws. Instead of focusing on your flaws when you look in a mirror, focus on the parts of you that you love; try to do this every morning. You will ooze confidence all day long.

Anne Sexton

I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws.

Steven Erikson

Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue-don’t you realize that?

Tyra Banks

I get so much mail from young women saying that they are so insecure when they look at me, but they don't realize all of the flaws that I have.

Earl Johnson

She could see the good in all people. See seemed to ignore the flaws and frailties.

William S. Burroughs

By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.

Wayne Ellington

It was an instant click. I didn't feel any flaws or anything. We just kind of played our game and complemented each other real well.

Chris Mohr

I see all the summer gone by with all the administrative overhead of working the gears of state government.

Steve Chavis

We're pretty geared up for the conference. We try to produce the state-of-the-art men's ministry weekend.

Jennifer Long

I thought they did a nice job on defense. We struggled to get our offense going. The girls were really geared up for this game. I have a lot of respect for Sofia and her capabilities. She involves her teammates, and that's very commendable.

John Wiater

When they get moving on the construction, there will be 75-80 construction workers, and when the plant is all geared up, the workforce will (more than) double. All hiring is done under the West Virginia Jobs Act, which means 75 percent of them have to be local workers.

Norman Cook

I didn't really get into second gear until I was 30. My first wife was a nurse and she was very anti. I never really started caning it until 1990, when I was 29. I had to make up for being a late starter. It wasn't self-destruction - I was having fun. There was never any reason to stop doing it, because it was fun. It makes it much harder to give up. It wasn't even starting to hurt.

Nate Holland

If Jason Smith had gotten his (butt) in gear I wouldn't have wrecked!

Perry Hill

I know what Andino needs to work on and what he needs to do. I've just got to slow him down. He gets a little geared up at times.

Susana Lopez

You don't have to be a Latina to join. You just have to be geared toward Latina issues.

Cory Schaefer

We had to settle down. We were too geared up to play and once we settled down it was too little, too late.

Ahmed Khan

This has led to recurrent crises. One hopes it is different this time.

Jamie Zawinski

The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

Bruce Dickinson

Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.

Bruce Dickinson

Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage.

Courteney Cox

I don't use a lint brush or anything, and I don't iron, but I could easily pick lint off of someone else.

Ann Voskamp

Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.

Rona Barrett

I'm really a pussycat - with an iron tail.

Spider Robinson

God is an iron... and that's a hot one.

Steven Morrissey

I don't iron anything. Never have and never will.

John Milton

Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

Scott Hatteberg

The whole series was tough. When I look back on things, yeah, I wish they were different.

James Van Der Beek

When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.

Joe Berlinger

Each film stands on its own. But we have a series that hangs together and is visually arresting.

Pat Murray

We fumbled on our first series and then threw the interception on our second,

Ryan Miller

I don't want that to be the way this series is remembered.

Albert Pujols

winning and getting back to the World Series and getting a ring.

Aileen Anderson

This is a first step in what has to be a long series of steps to get to anything clinical.

Laurel Lea

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

Alan Ball

What the series is all about is: We die. So while we're here, let's live fully.

Carroll Quigley

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

Mark Shields

John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.

Joe Tex

Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region.

Mike Colter

You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.

George Mason

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.

David Sibley

They talk about Southern hospitality, but Southern hospitality has nothing on this place,

Frances Townsend

Two in South Asia, two in Southeast Asia.

Malcolm X

There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Jamie Dimon

Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.