Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Burdett

I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?

Pat Riley

He'd average 20 points a game if he was put in that role every night and I'll be damned if I'm not going to try to put him in that role - now. You forget a little bit about how good he can be if he gets good opportunities.

Larry Birns

He (Chavez) is popular because he needles the United States and he talks like the average Latin American would talk.

Len Totora

He carried himself like a military man. They walk a little bit differently than the average person. They walk with their shoulders back, and with a swagger. That's the way he walked, and he walked with confidence, like any good veteran does.

Charlie Brown

He cared a lot about people, more so than the average person.

Andy Roddick

He kind of wrapped some presents for me and handed it over. I was average in most regards, but a win is a win. I feel like I'm on the verge of playing well.

Pete Mitchell

He is unbelievable. He has the second highest average in the county with a 227 for the year. I can't tell you how many times we've been in games where it came down to the last three and Tony needed three strikes to win and every single time the kid produced.

Eliot Seide

Half is better than nothing for our average member who lives paycheck to paycheck on $35,000 a year.

Seth Shostak

Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things like the iguanas of the Galapagos, even though they were primitive compared to your average Englishman.

Sebastian Pinera

I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that is a mistake.

Alfonso G. Robles

Furthermore, the Latin American nuclear-weapon free zone which is now nearing completion has become in several respects an example which, notwithstanding the different characteristics of each region, is rich in inspiration.

Richelle Mead

Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table.

Ruben Blades

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

Umberto Eco

On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German Monk toward the end of the fourteenth century...First of all, what style should I employ?

Tricia Helfer

I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.

William Safire

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

Ricardo Montalban

It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.

Vera Wang

I was struggling to find a way to make evening clothes more deconstructed. I like to think that I translated the Latin concept in a more modern way. I don't think that I was that literal.

John Brady

He just threaded needles everywhere. He threw darts.

Steve Stirling

The turning point was the second period with all the penalties. We took some silly, needless penalties there.

Gregory Estes

The detailer was the one to offer putting him on the ship with me. Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised.

Mark Howard

It was entertaining to some people, it's just not who we are. Needless to say, there will not be an encore performance for Lisa.

Bob Dylan

I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned - didn't know whether I was stoned or straight.

Cindy Osbrink

Needless to say, we are devastated. She had everything going for her.

Fong Piau

Needless to say, the potential in Jakarta is immense.

Dick Vermeil

Needless to say, I'm very, very proud of how well they played.

Laurie Zoloth

You always have the problem of dual-use in every new technology. Steel can be used to make sewing needles or spears.

Dan Furmansky

He wants to place our rights up for a popular vote on the ballot.

Grant Hill

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.

Will Wright

I think the primary thing that's made the Sims popular is that they're accessible,

Lucio Gutierrez

I will regain the presidency by way of the constitution, the truth and popular support,

Van Orden

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

William Devane

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

Jena Malone

If you took Lydia out of 'Pride and Prejudice' and put her into today, she'd be one of the popular girls,

Spencer Tillman

I know, ... I'm the hurricane. I'm going to be more popular than my husband.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Robin Trower

The States still has the best audiences by far.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

William John Wills

I do not like Melbourne in its present state.

Wolfgang Paul

Solid state I don't like, even though I started it.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Anne Patterson

In our opinion, there is no international support for this idea. I don't think this idea is going to work in the future, and the United States will not support this.

Marco Rubio

I'm blessed to represent Florida in the United States Senate.

Roman Harper

He talks more out there than he does all week.

Noriyuki Suzuki

The bilateral talks are interlinked with the multilateral process.

Steve Alford

We've already kind of had all the talks that we were going to have.

M.I.A.

In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.

Christina Hendricks

Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous; you get really self-conscious.

Liu Jianchao

The timetable for resuming the talks is unpredictable.

Billy Bush

She talks about two people. From your experience, is that right?

Michael Huff

Jimmy's different. He kind of talks all the time. But it's all in fun.

Sugar Ray Leonard

When the trainer talks to the fighter, there's a connection. You don't always have to say much.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Virginia Foxx

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

Wesley Clark

This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

Vladimir Putin

The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a permanent member of its Security Council.

Jack Womack

Clearly, this is the most challenging story we've ever had to manage, at least in the United States.

Donald E. Graham

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Wesley Clark

This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

Nancy Pelosi

Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

Henry Hazlitt

The tendency of welfare spending in the United States has been to increase at an exponential rate.

John Bolton

Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.

Northrop Frye

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

Kenneth Rogoff

Unbridled capitalism in the United States can't be sustained socially. It leads to tensions.