Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Cain

I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American.

Quincy Jones

Imagine what a harmonious world it...

C. L. R. James

First of all, Bolshevism represents...

Chris Abani

African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent.

Chris Abani

There is no living African writer who has not had to, or will not have to, contend with Achebe's work. We are either resisting him - stylistically, politically, or culturally - or we are writing toward him.

Wole Soyinka

Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent.

Emogene Middleton

This store that we're standing in front of, The Gap, was really Kress five and ten cent store and it was the hub of downtown for African Americans. The only restroom that was available to us was in the basement of this store.

Barbara Stocking

Today's announcement will make a real difference to millions of poor people. On the ground it will mean thousands of people get treatment for the first time in their lives. Zambia will need continued support to recruit new staff but this is a massive leap in the right direction. We now need other African countries to follow suit.

Win Butler

The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a voodoo ceremony, and then go to a Catholic church and tell me which music you liked better, to which one the music is more integral.

Jamie Bamber

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

Jeff Chown

Right now there's a risk in signing any baseball player, whether or not there's been a rumor about him or not. There's a dark cloud over the entire sport.

Jose Guillen

This is a pitchers' ballpark. Everybody knows that here. It's not in my mind anymore. I'm just here to play baseball -- that's what I'm going to do. Some of these guys are worried about it. That's not by business.

Babe Ruth

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

Babe Ruth

I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.

Jim Stoyle

We're happy to be 6-5. We've turned the corner. The thing is, we were 2-5 at one time (after having) lost four in a row and were frustrated. We were searching for some identity. The kids turned it around. That's what is unique about baseball that you can't do with basketball. You have to do get after it the next day.

Bobby Fischer

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Double Duty shared such a love for baseball and a passion for life. We all loved to listen to his stories and share in his laughter. He leaves such a great legacy after experiencing so much history and change during his long life.

Mark Attanasio

Doug's in charge of baseball operations; that's in his court,

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Marc Berman

Pulling a stunt like this (which is certainly not a first) shows a lack of respect for the audience.

Brad Rubin

The salaried workers are certainly going to be touched by this. By how much, it's difficult to say.

Kirby Dean

It would certainly help. I think that would go a long way to deciding the team that comes out victorious. I think they probably feel like they can win playing our style and we feel like, if the chips fall right, we can win playing their style.

Gary Bardini

The rise won't be as high as we saw a week ago, certainly not as high as we saw three months ago.

Lisa Finstrom

That the claims data were back at 356,000 was certainly better than expected and the dollar is gaining.

Philip Rivers

That's not all on my shoulders, but I certainly feel like I can get in there and manage it and handle the situation.

Herb Sendek

That's just kind of how this team has taken shape. I don't know if you're going to have that many guys night in and night out, but we certainly had terrific balance. Just a good team win.

Greg Chalmers

That one really gave me the impetus into the back nine that I needed. I'm certainly used to this kind of breeze, but it was very difficult because it was gusting in different directions.

Jimmy Rollins

This is definitely what you play for. Everybody knows it's football season, but when you have a race like this, it's hard to turn around from it.

Jim Smith

This is definitely what we anticipated all along. It just took a little longer than we expected. We're elated that the commissioners saw the wisdom of the entire plan and voted accordingly.

Jeff Gordon

This is definitely the smoothest that I've ever seen this place. I'm still not sure what the race is going to be like, but I think it's going to be good because the track is just really, really fast right now.

Daniel Wilson

This is definitely the right time to get started.

E. O. Wilson

This is definitely the most talented, smartest and mature team I've been on since I've been here.

Daron Rahlves

This is hard to swallow. It's not the way I wanted it to end. If you win a gold medal at the Olympics it doesn't matter what else you've done. I definitely wanted to walk away from here on top.

Tony Stewart

This is one of those days, I don't want it to end, ... I don't want to see the sun set. It's definitely the greatest day of my life, professionally and personally up to this point.

Laren Poole

That's what Saturday is about. It's a big step, but it's definitely the beginning.

John Grahame

You've got to want that pressure on your shoulders. I definitely want the opportunity if I get it.

Mark Calcavecchia

After missing so many, I had a feeling I was going to make it, ... That's one of my better pars of the year.

Tatiana Totmianina

Sometimes it looks good but you are not feeling comfortable inside. But if it looks good, it means it is good.

Adam Haluska

I've been feeling good about my shot for the last two weeks.

Kenny Phillips

I've never had a feeling like this before,

Archibald MacLeish

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

Jamie Wyeth

When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I'm feeling a little delicate.

Daniel Handler

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

Bram Stoker

Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Max Cleland

Deployments have increased some 300 percent, and the military has been decreased by a third: Hello, good morning -- you can't keep that up forever, ... Sooner or later you're going to get people stressed out, spread too thin around the world, and they just won't put up with it anymore.

John Feehery

Denny is good at picking up the pieces. He is a very soothing influence. At the end of the day, I think people will be looking to Denny for leadership.

Bill Walsh

Dennis Green is as good as they get,

Randy Martin

DeMorius had a good night and Markie had some good, tough runs on second effort.

Tony Russa

Any way you slice it, he was outstanding. There were several times when there was some serious thump at the plate and he made good pitches.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alexa Chung

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

Alice Walker

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Richard Bach

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Ross Kemp

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Patricia Ireland

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

Phil Harding

Is it better that we manage population growth responsibly or should we to wait for nature to cull our numbers?

R. Robinson

We wish we were playing for something, but we're playing for pride and that's a big thing in itself. Also, just to let 'em know that, hey, if things worked out a little differently, this is what y'all would've got.

Rodney Atkins

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Jim Thome

I got to see more pitches. I got over 30 at-bats in three days. When I got back to playing in the regular games, it just seemed to click.

David Perno

Hopefully, he'll keep playing that type of baseball.

Rosario Dawson

That was something that we really worked on, not repeating ourselves. But I was like, 'This is not going to be a problem because I'm playing a woman.'

Chris Masoner

That was really important for us. We really wanted it ... It's so important for us to go into the playoffs playing like this.

Jeff Carter

That was one of the big things when they talked about playing me there at the start of the season.

Bob Bowlsby

That's the way it's got to be these days. When we have an upswing in revenue from playing in postseason games, we share.

Gina Suarez

I wasn't playing that well and I may have been a little scared in the beginning. But then I wanted to make sure that I was still having fun.

Steve Robinson

The vibrancy in our sports programs is still there.

Lorne Michaels

I think you're seeing the wave of the future.

Buddy Bell

We told Peralta when we sent him down that we'd probably be seeing him soon. We just didn't think it'd be this soon.

Sam Stovall

In general, we are seeing things that look a lot better.

Michael Goodman

It's sort of like you're seeing Yahoo spread its wings and be more of a portal that ties into the TV in your home.

Buzz Hargrove

We have to solve that or it's a showstopper for sure.

Sylvia Earle

Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special to human beings.

Fabio Capello

Like [George] Best, there is a special fantasia about him

Felicity Kendal

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.

Isabel Allende

Everyone is born with some special talent ...

Irving Kaufman

Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.

Jason Wu

Buy things you truly love, things that are special, but not a lot of them. It's about value, not quantity.

Harrison Ford

I've never been bothered by proximity to special effects and I've never felt disadvantaged by them. They're all part of a movie, and when the movie's under control I don't feel upstaged by them.

Pete Carroll

He's such a special player, a once-in-a-lifetime talent.

Ivana Trump

Travelling so much, sometimes my luggage goes astray. But I can get the right stuff sent to me overnight by a special shipper. No big deal.