Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination

Greg Evans

I suspect the universe is accelerating proportionally with our understanding of the laws of nature and life respectively. It is not much different then the birth of a flower.

Richard Cohen

I suspect the fraudster obviously had my name, my date of birth and maybe my mother's maiden name. People do not actually think about what they throw into the rubbish.

Richard Roberts

It causes an increased risk of birth defects and mental retardation.

Ken Livingston

I actually think it's what he represents they don't want to see depicted, because in that square one Nelson signifies the birth of the British empire and 100 years of global dominance, ... Nelson Mandela would signify the peaceful transition to a multiracial and multicultural world, and I would be proud to have that in London.

Susan Tucker

He just had a birthday party. His grandchildren spoke and his grandson said how much he has impacted him, especially his business sense.

Shakira

Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.

Muriel Spark

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.

Sathya Baba

Have a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you.

Peter Mayhew

I was in the costume department having the costume made the next day, and we were shooting two weeks later when the main unit returned from Tunisia.

Jackie Collins

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

Sergio Garcia

I think I proved myself today, and I think the British Open is done, so I don't want to hear any more questions about it.

Jack Straw

I also want to put on record the very high regard which the British government as a whole, and I personally, have for Kofi Annan, in leading and steering the United Nations through a period of great change in international relations,

Albert Finney

He just lets you go, really. When we were kind of supposed to rehearse, I don't remember rehearsing at all. We just sort of gossiped and chatted.

Amir Khan

Haroon is already a Four Nation and British champion and he thinks he's going to be better than me. We spar a lot and sometimes, even though he weighs only 6½ stone, he can hurt me. I give him one back then - just to let him know who's boss.

Noam Chomsky

There are still thousands of people dying every year in Laos, mostly children and farmers, from unexploded anti-personnel ordnance that the U.S. simply saturated much of the land with, especially in the Plain of Jars. There actually is a British engineering team trying to remove some of these things, which are much worse than land mines.

Murray Rothbard

Early economic theory was rooted in the Italian, French, and Spanish traditions, which were subjectivist oriented. Then it shifted onto the terrible path by Smith and Ricardo and the British classical tradition, which is 'objectivist' - values are in inherent in production.

Kate Bush

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

Robert Trout

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

Voltaire

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Walter Scott

The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.

Winston Churchill

If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.

Mo Ibrahim

I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man.

George Goncalves

The Empire State report was strong ... and the selling pressures stayed there.

Nostradamus

The great empire will be torn from limb, the all-powerful one for more than four-hundred years: Great power given to the dark one from slaves come.

Winston Churchill

All great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It is neither holy, Roman or an empire.

Thomas R. Insel

I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country.

Quincy Jones

Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.

Tara Lemmey

I think that privacy is sort of the nature of your identity, and how you transfer your identity is a very important global issue.

Sean Paul

I think when you look at this, you have to look at this with global perspective, ... It does matter if you're going for that store and Edmond goes for it. ? It does put you at a competitive advantage. ? These are tremendous tools and if we don't start using them to compete, we start losing police and firefighters.

Masayoshi Okamoto

There is a global realignment trend in the steel industry ... it's a matter of how you look at Nippon Steel, the world's third-largest steel maker.

Doug Porter

I think what the market is waiting for is some signs of stabilization in the global economy, and especially the U.S. economy.

Bill Gates

It has been a great year for global health to get more visibility. The more people know about it, the more they want to act.

Nauman Barakat

It is not 9/11 in its devastation or its impact on global demand. Therefore this sell-off will be very temporary.

Don Budinger

He's been our consultant, that's public knowledge. People are speculating that he's our prime candidate. Obviously we need a globally competent, experienced leader to navigate the road map. Somebody of his talent obviously would come on to our radar.

Jonathan Shapiro

Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit.

James Best

The movie has four-letter words in it. You've got Willie Nelson playing Uncle Jesse, smoking dope? That's not 'Dukes of Hazzard.' It should have been 'Jackass 2,'

Maggie Erlenbaugh

Megan Nelson was in a new position (libero) and made some stellar plays on defense.

Dan Jenkins

I'd follow Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson anywhere.

Tina Brown

I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents.

Paul Rudd

Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency.

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.

Lakhdar Brahimi

have every reason to be proud of what you have achieved.

Lynda Carter

Having them go to these premieres with me and tell me that they are proud of me is pretty cool.

Greg Daniels

He's going to have to get used to that. I was proud of how we battled back. We had a chance.

Tom Gorman

We're proud of what happened. It was important for the community.

Manson Hill

We're proud of our players. We outplayed them in the second half, and we had a shot to win it.

Brian Smith

We're proud of Levi. He's one of 11 state finalists at Bellingham.

Brian Clodi

We're proud of everything they've given. Not just tonight, but what they've done for our program.

Kevin Ellis

We're proud of everything Raynham is and stands for. That's why it's worth it.

Shaun Alexander

We took Seattle to a place it had never seen before. We've got a lot to be proud of.

Jeremy Osborne

He represents that person or that thing that everyone is waiting for.

John W. Snow

Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole.

Laura Smith

It represents me. My old room was from when I was 6 or 7. This room is more up-to-date.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Robert Clark

For myself, and a lot of other students, Gen. Powell represents what can be possible.

Frank Taylor

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Inder Singh

We view this as a particularly important win for Lucent as it represents its first large-scale IMS deployment with a US carrier.

William Wordsworth

But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.

Trey Anastasio

What happens if you start drawing squares? Well, I'd say the answer to that is, don't get famous for drawing circles.

Vincent Price

We may all be a peculiar lot...often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work...but we know how to have a ball that makes the rest of the world seem square.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I don't want to be a propagandist, no matter how good the cause. I want to tell stories. It's just that the stories have to square with my consciousness as a woman and my conscience as a human being.

Wilson Mizner

I'd rather know a square guy than own a square mile.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.

Vince Vaughn

I´ve square danced twice in towns you haven´t even heard of!

William De Morgan

A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.

Lewis Black

I'm going to make my transition to weatherman soon,

Vanessa Taylor

They jumped out on us right away. Because of that we weren't able to get into our transition game.

Mark Messier

Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.

Kenneth Lay

Every market is in transition.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.

Oswald Spengler

Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness

Jon Stewart

When you're accustomed to doing stand-up, so often you're the only person onstage and it's all your thing. It's very gladiatorial. Obviously, when you're in a scene with somebody, you're supposed to listen and react - and that's a bit of a transition.

Georg Simmel

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

Gavin Bryars

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.