Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Christopher

In the early stages of writing children's books, an experienced lady editor said that while girls read boys' books, the converse was not true, and I may have been influenced by that.

Melissa Rivers

I'm a big fan of the laceless Converse for travel, with cute jeans, and throw on a little jacket, and you look presentable.

Louise Nurding

The footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on her hands and knees, in Converse and jeans, teaching kids to count.

Todd Boyd

Converse hasn't really had a name since Dr. J.,

Dwyane Wade

Converse has history. I want to be part of what comes next.

Jacqueline Novogratz

President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true.

J. D. Salinger

We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.

Eduardo Paes

President Obama is the best-known politician to be exploring the possibilities of new technologies to converse with the people. Others must follow his lead and innovate. It is inevitable.

Orison Swett Marden

Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.

Robert Dallek

Kennedy was very sensitive to this question of ever using nuclear weapons,

Eileen Hawley

Kennedy does remain the prime landing target for tomorrow.

Kevin Hassett

It sounds like Senator Kennedy is echoing President Bush's State of the Union message.

Terry Holt

This president, after years of stonewalling from the Democrats, was able to pass and sign a plan for a prescription drug benefit. Kennedy was part of that as well. He was one of the lead negotiators for the Democrats. This is really a stunning about-face. He seems to be walking away from his own ideas.

Edward Kennedy

As long as a Kennedy has a voice, we'll be standing with you and the AFL-CIO.

Lucy Johnson

I've been in Kennedy Square for 31 years and this is the 3rd time that we've had someone's life taken since I've been here. So I would say very surprising.

Maria Shriver

When I look in the mirror, I don't just see a first lady, I don't just see a Kennedy or a Schwarzenegger, I don't just see a mother, a daughter, a wife, a sister and a friend, and thank God, I don't see Warren Beatty.

Tamara Feldman

I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.

Tina Brown

Unlike the Kennedy dynasty, who always knew how to pay off people who might make trouble, the Windsors can't bring themselves to part with any royal trinkets.

Salman Rushdie

There is no alternative to the peaceful coexistence of cultures.

Wayne Dyer

Begin Practicing the Intention to be Authentic & Peaceful with Everyone

Saul Williams

I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas.

Roseanne Barr

I meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.

Youssou N'Dour

Islam is a peaceful religion.

Walter Ulbricht

May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.

Vladimir Putin

Brazil does have every right to develop its own peaceful nuclear programme.

Yani Tseng

I feel very peaceful.

Igor Shabdurasulov

In Russia a revolution has taken place, a peaceful one, but a revolution all the same.

Tom Casey

He is the established constitutional president of Mauritania.

John Edwards

It is actually the responsibility of the president of the U.S. to be able to do two things at the same time,

Orrin Hatch

I think the president has to do some compromising here, not just the House.

Gary Chaison

I think that (AFL-CIO President John) Sweeney will have to make a strong statement about the AFL-CIO and how it's strong and still relevant.

Dale Bills

He was strong and vibrant and it was vintage President Hinckley.

Ryan Lochte

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

Russell Baker

The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him.

Townsend Harris

The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

Reza Aslan

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Rick Riordan

Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. “How come I never get invited on these violent trips?

Woody Allen

[The universe is] haphazard, morally neutral, and unimaginably violent.

Mahatma Gandhi

Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.

Noam Chomsky

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

Shaun Alexander

It is what it is. We play a violent sport.

Jon Jansen

It's a violent game, a violent place to play.

Aaron Spelling

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

Jasmine Guy

Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.

Jose Maldonado

You'd think if he was a violent offender, they wouldn't let him be out.