Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Rick Moranis

The music is pretty simple: It's, you know, it's country music. There's a couple of melodies that are okay, I guess.

Donna Shalala

Africa, Asia, every country in the world, they were all in denial. The health ministers kept assuring us they had everything under control. (Gayle) kept pushing . . . to get programs, strengthen the private sector, the public sector. She just never gave up.

Junior Combs

The older we get, the more we understand about old country songs. When you're young, you don't really understand what they're about. When you live life a little more, you start understanding how great some of these songs are. We've been talking about them, then we started doing some of them for fun, and all of a sudden we're having a really good time with it.

Jeremy Corbyn

After only two or three weeks in office, we discovered we had a backlog of 100,000 emails sent to me. We had a backlog of a thousand invitations to speak at places all over the country - and all over the world, for that matter.

Rob Schlichting

Some parts of the country are experiencing tight supplies because of unusually heavy refinery maintenance schedules. Until crude oil prices drop substantially, Americans won't see a big decline at the pump.

Charles Hazlewood

Somerset is the first proper country county you come to in the West, which isn't dependent on London and isn't full of commuters. Somerset is full of the most fantastically interesting people.

Loyola Sullivan

So, we have a significant problem that other provinces in the country are not facing.

Ssebaana Kizito

So, those who just go outside the country and make noise that they are fighting or they fought to liberate Uganda are simply kidding.

Jesse McCartney

I've been reading script after script after script,

James Sturm

I've been collecting, reading 'Peanuts' since I was five,

Brandon Sanderson

Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.

Ben Mezrich

Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome.

Augusten Burroughs

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

Azar Nafisi

We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading. And if we do so, our reward is the discovery of the many hidden layers within these works that do not merely reflect reality but reveal a spectrum of truths, thus intrinsically going against the grain of totalitarian mindsets.

Ayn Rand

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

Jamie Farr

I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.

C. S. Lewis

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

Earl Wilson

I've been around, and I see what other cities are doing, and I think, 'Why not us, we're a proud people,'

Ben Nicholson

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

Jane Jacobs

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

Benjamin Disraeli

Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modem times.

Janine Benyus

When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability.

Baltasar Gracian

The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

Bret Easton Ellis

I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.

Bruce Babbitt

City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.

Edwidge Danticat

You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.