Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yael Grobglas

Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

Yanis Varoufakis

In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.

Tina Brown

Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away.

Ice T

My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.

Idris Elba

If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'

Isobelle Carmody

I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.

Gavyn Davies

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.

Donald Trump

You've seen my statements; I do very well. I don't mind paying some taxes. The middle class is getting clobbered in this country. You know the middle class built this country, not the hedge fund guys, but I know people in hedge funds that pay almost nothing, and it's ridiculous, OK?

Zadie Smith

It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'

Xavi

I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'

Twyla Tharp

At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do.

Thierry Henry

The only thing I won't watch is darts. And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test? And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.

Thierry Henry

But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

Imelda May

There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

We took our eye off the ball as a company.

Steve Friedman

The only crystal ball even more difficult to read than where one's own personal situation may be is where the country is headed and what the country's economic situation will be in 20 or 30 years.

Rick Adelman

The patience at the end of the game there when Brad hit the three was terrific. We had plenty of time, we moved the ball around and they made a mistake and left Brad standing there. Then in the overtime we took control, especially when Odom fouled out.

Phillip Hilliard

The past two games we haven't been hitting the ball. He had to be (critical) ? nobody was hitting the ball. We should've hit the ball a lot better, and we weren't focused on the fundamentals.

Gillian Armstrong

We need more drama on Australian TV. We've actually dropped the ball on that.

Romeo Crennel

That would have helped if we would've made that play. He just dropped it, it looked like to me.

Brad Kassell

That was probably the key to the victory. Every time they dropped back to pass he was getting harassed. Those guys up front dominated.

Mavis Staples

I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

Peter Segal

Some people are like cats - if they're dropped upside down, they land on their feet. I get a little irritated about stories like that.

Mike Miller

Where we used to do 10,000 (skiers) a year, we dropped down to 7,000 last year.

Kevin Yates

I was very pleased with how we swam. A lot of swimmers dropped time and showed they could handle (the pressure of) big meets.

Lisa Whiting

I think she was dropped off but we don't know by who. Her story is really inconsistent. We are trying to get information out of her but she's shutting down.

Kyle Conrad

It dropped right on the line, just like I wanted.

Anthony Storr

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

Agnes Smedley

My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.

Charlotte Bronte

Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel --- she cannot help being mad.

Charles Dickens

A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.

Charles Spurgeon

Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.

Alan Hovhaness

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

Al Smith

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.