Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denise Graham

We actually do get a lot of people from the border on a regular basis.

Gunter Grass

I have seen and drawn dying, poisoned worlds. I published a book of drawings called 'Death of Wood' about one such world, on the border between the Federal Republic of Germany and what was then still the German Democratic Republic.

Tom Donohue

We have no problem with increased border enforcement in a reasonable way, or with reasonable requirements that employers verify the work status of who they hire, but we strongly oppose the House bill, as does much of the business community, because it is simply unworkable, unreasonable and fundamentally unfair.

Natasha Trethewey

When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden.

Kendrick Meek

I think it is important also to recognize that our Customs border protection officers who secure our borders and conduct inspections of people in vehicles and cargo are also facing staffing shortages.

Bobby Jindal

In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders.

Carl Jackson

About 90 percent of the golfers can read whether the putts are going left or right. But when you get the borderline putts, you've got to have something to lean on. He has something to lean on.

Michael Casey

It's a story set in an Ulster border village forgotten by time and progress.

Georgi Parvanov

This border crossing is a symbol of the dynamic development of Greek-Bulgarian relations and shows that we are prepared to go through mountains to tread the paths of friendship.

Charles Caleb Colton

Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.

Charles Caleb Colton

The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

Charles Caleb Colton

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

Charles Dickens

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

Charles Spurgeon

Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

Alan Watts

To perceive that form reveals the void, and to see that the void reveals form, is the secret for the overcoming of death. To the extent that one is unaware of space, one is unaware of one's own eternity — it's the same thing!

Alan Watts

Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.

Alan Parker

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

Alan Ball

The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.

Karen Roberts

We're looking forward to having John Samples, a well-rounded candidate, represent the Democratic party in Precinct 4.

Lorenzo Meyer

This is a very positive turnaround for the political development of Mexico. Now, after all, we will be able -- late, very late -- to have a real democratic transition.

Tom Slater

They reflect the opinion of Democratic activists. But I don't think you can extrapolate from the results the thinking of the general public.

Larry Sabato

As far as others in his party are concerned, Simmons' district is highly competitive and in a strong Democratic year, it could easily be lost. ... These favors are done for Simmons simply to save the seat.

Iqbal Sacranie

Our democratic values need to be upheld, not undermined.

Jim Manley

A nominee more extreme than Judge Roberts would be unacceptable to the Democratic caucus, ... You could expect a major fight on the Senate floor.

James Phillips

A quick pullout would leave a vacuum that Iran would be all too happy to fill. The Iraqis who are supporting a democratic government would be completely demoralized. It could lead to a very quick unraveling of national cohesion.

Jalal Talabani

And the Iraqi people are liberated from the worst kind of dictatorship. Now they are enjoying their democratic rights, all kinds of freedoms, a free press.

Karen Ignagni

The subtext of the Democratic proposal is: If you have a problem, get a lawyer.

Tite Kubo

I have three assistants, but there isn't a head assistant. All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.

Colta Ives

Drawings have always been the P.S. part of van Gogh's work. Yet he was a letter writer, a guy with a pen in his hand.

Colta Ives

Drawings have always been the P.S. part of van Gogh's work, ... Yet he was a letter writer, a guy with a pen in his hand.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.

Gerald Scarfe

I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.

Marilyn Coker

We ran into problems getting the drawings and permitting together. A lot of the people involved with the project had so much work on their hands, on top of this.

P. J. Harvey

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

Yoko Ono

He was very generous about it. I just wonder where those drawings went.

Kim Swift

The drawings in 'Portal' were actually me scribbling that stuff... I had a funny moment when I realized that someone gotten 'The cake is a lie' tattooed on themselves. It was really interesting to see my handwriting tattooed on another human being. That... that's odd.

Anderson Cooper

I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle and conflict.

Mike Dowd

It's exactly how I would have drawn it up.

Dave Lieberman

They were like, great, now look, ... I was always drawn to the kitchen.

Sienna Miller

It's more about self-sacrifice and less about his charms, and what other women are drawn to,

Robert Hartwig

It's the price of paradise, ... People are drawn to landscapes.

Keith Wyness

They are probably the toughest of the sides we could have drawn but you have to take what you are given,

Kim Rupert

It's a done deal. We're looking for a fairly long, drawn out Senate trial.

Bryan Larrison

(Athens) played us well, and everyone else average. (Athens) tied Newark (1-all Dec. 10) and Pickerington (3-all Nov. 11). For some reason, we've drawn them on a Friday and they've struggled the rest of the weekend.

Michael Vick

It wasn't how it was drawn up. I had to make some extra moves. ... Tried to make some magic.

Fran Quigley

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Stephen Moore

What has been the fastest-growing federal tax imposed on middle-income Americans over the past 20 years?,

Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

Charles Lindbergh

From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.

Michael Chertoff

Unless it can be credibly established that a mobilizing Federal resource ... is not needed at the catastrophic incident venue, that resource deploys,

Kenneth Langone

I should not get Social Security. I think it's a travesty for a man of my success and of my means to get anything from the federal government.

Dan Lipinski

With the overall size of the federal marketplace expanding, we should be seeing opportunities opening up for our nation's small businesses.

Claire McCaskill

It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams.

Alan Sugar

I find it strange that Gisela Gschaider a 1974 immigrant from Germany is on the brexit panel telling us British what we should do .

Sepp Blatter

The stars of the tournament will serve as role models for hundreds of millions of other players around the world. So it is all the more important that Germany 2006 sets a positive example.

Liu Jun

The West has turned out a host of other movies similar to 'Schindler's List'. This has, to some extent, led to Germany apologizing for its wartime crimes.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

David Aebischer

We are going to have to win over Germany and Italy, that's where we focus.

Eduard Shevardnadze

Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

Peter Lindbergh

My first obsession was actually sports. I was a very good handball goalkeeper. With special permission, I played in the premier league in Germany before I was even old enough.

Adolf Hitler

Nearly all Bolshevist agitators in Germany and elsewhere were Jews.

Donald Rumsfeld

After the German abstention at the UN, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle commented that Germany doesn't always have to stand on the side of its traditional allies. Berlin can look for new partners all over the world.

Eric Betzig

Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like other people. You're better off having a vague sense of what's going on and making your own way.

Louis Lane

The so-called No. 2 is actually the first one because he thought the first one, which he wrote second, was a little better, so he had it published first.

Eric Brown

Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.

Rebecca Stead

Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.

Ron Sanders

That's because they had published prices, and we haven't set prices.

Jonathan Galassi

John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems.

Siri Hustvedt

I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.

Morley Callaghan

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.

Isabel Allende

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Daniel Cabrera

We'll see what the Dominican Republic can do.

Willy Taveras

Speed has always been my game. It's how I got signed out of the Dominican Republic and it's what got me to the big leagues. If I'm going to have a long career, it's going to be because I can run.

Ann Coulter

There are a lot of bad republicans; there are no good democrats.

Andy Borowitz

To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic, the Republicans have nominated Mitt Romney.

Alphonse de Lamartine

At twenty every one is republican.

Allen West

This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.

Donna Brazile

We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me.

Ambrose Bierce

REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.

Michael Gartenberg

A lot of what we've seen in Vista has similarities with Tiger.

Pam Davis

It smells putrid. If I had come by myself and seen this, I probably wouldn't have stayed.

Dan Sumner

It's the trend we've seen for a long time.

Leo Beenhakker

(There will be) no new guys. We have seen everybody.

Michael Hearst

It's a different distribution than we've seen before.

Emily LaGrassa

It's a little unclear why he was released. They should have seen that he had a warrant.

Michael Kelley

This is what's coming, ... We haven't seen the worst of it yet.

William Carwile

This is unlike what we have seen before.

Ben Johnson

This is the worst thing I've ever seen in my career.