Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mohsin Hamid

Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies.

Terry Kennedy

We started out at a level below my expectations. But now it is there. Some players have come into the league who have made it better. It's a high-Class A league, maybe even better than that.

Asif Kapadia

We spent four days filming in a helicopter. I had never seen London from that viewpoint - you get a sense of how big it is and how easy it is to get lost. There was one day when we couldn't find Brick Lane: we spent 25 minutes looking and then realised it was directly below us.

Chris Meyer

When you take out the 15 cents and the 20 cents, you can get a number which actually was below consensus. And that's obviously in stark contrast to what we saw from Lehman Brothers yesterday.

Nell Newman

When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops.

J. M. Roberts

We've always said this about Alaska: nasty-ass weather, warm people. I never experienced 32 below before. ... My Irish blood has been thinned out by years of living in California.

Joyce Foreman

When we were living there, we always knew there was the danger of something catastrophic happening down there because New Orleans is below sea level.

Ryan Stilphen

We're still below .500 in the MAAC so no one's head is too big.

Keith Schwer

We're seeing adjustments that are below the radar like the coal(-fired power) plant Nevada Power wants to build in Ely.

James Hartman

We have no electricity, no public water that is safe to drink, and no telephones in most areas.

Elizabeth Ryan

We found ourselves with no water, electricity or phone for weeks. We needed to rebuild the entire infrastructure.

Keith Schwer

We're not a heavy user of energy. You may start to see an impact on electricity (rates) because we use gas for generation plants.

Mark Stutz

It's not like electricity where you turn it on and all of sudden it's there.

James Wood

There was electricity just going and going like a wave. It just kept on going wave after wave.

Zhang Guobao

This marks a turning point in the electricity supply shortfalls of a few years ago.

Celso Senise

Privatization means better electricity supply, a restructuring of the industry, mergers and acquisitions. Prices of electricity shares have been lagging and they have room to move up more.

Kevin Collins

Thank God we have electricity to hold Mass.

Felix Kramer

You're substituting electricity for gasoline - that's the big benefit.

Chita Rivera

You know I've got a generator that's still popping.

David Riesman

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

Mike Rush

When you say goodbye to so many great volunteers, it's always hard, but it's good to know there's always a new generation of leaders emerging.

Charles Baudelaire

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

Bob Barr

The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No.

Cesare Pavese

The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

Edward Kennedy

[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.

Bill Gates

what are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet stream kites or new magnets that will allow [energy] generation to be done up there and you just bring the electricity down. You either have to bring down rotational energy, which is hard, or you have to have the generator up there and bring down the electricity. Well, putting the generator up there is hard to do because it's too heavy.

Mike Hall

We were informed by the corporation that the 360 Next Generation Project was being studied and may not be built.

Jon Stewart

those dastardly, conniving, post-hurricane looting criminals. Is there no end to their planning abilities?!

Sonny Perdue

Frankly, when you prey upon the fears, the paranoia of citizens, it is akin to looting in a different sort of way,

D. James

The natives were getting restless so to speak, it was very eerie. You could feel a riot building, the looting had already begun.

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent. If he's 100 percent after today, we'll probably let him go at it. But if he's not, then we will wait until Saturday.

Steve Groene

Until someone tells us 100 percent sure that that's Dylan, we still feel that he's out there and he's safe and is going to come home,

Heizo Takenaka

Whether we reach 1.7 percent this year does not really have much meaning.

Linda Jeffers

At least 50 percent of them want to come home. The most important thing for them is safe levees.

Robert Townsend

All organizations are at least 50 percent waste -- waste people, waste effort, waste space, and waste time.

Bob Willis

About 90 percent of the construction has been done in-house.

Lori Lucas

About 81 percent say they plan to save later.

Greg Waldrop

All of my qualified students are 100 percent employed. Not every student is qualified.

Charles Caleb Colton

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

Alan Watts

We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives. As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves. The brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the brain does not allow; the brain giving directions which the body will not follow, and the body giving impulses which the brain cannot

Alan Moore

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

Alan Moore

They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.

Alan Moore

Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.

Alan Greenspan

The Iraq War is largely about oil.

Alan Greenspan

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

Alan Greenspan

The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.

Alan Colmes

I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.