Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conquerors have great noses, Getius, whose writings antedate the age of humor, calls the nose the organ of quell. It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.There's a man with a Nose, And wherever he goes The people run from him and shout:""No cotton have we For our ears if so be He blow that interminous snout!""So the lawyers applied For injunction. ""Denied,"" Said the Judge: ""the defendant prefixion, Whate'er it portend, Appears to transcend The bounds of this court's jurisdiction."" --Arpad Singiny

John Koech

Once we have ministers fully in charge of the affairs of the community in all the three countries, they would be in a better position to lobby for more funding.

Rose Mashigo

Deal with your current affairs now, have their facts in order, because they have a tendency of resurfacing as ghosts of the past; as background check or as some research in history and whether you like it or not, that is your life - so handle it with love and care while you still have the opportunity.

Adam Ereli

And the next day, an official from the ministry of foreign affairs also contacted Ambassador Dell and conveyed a similar apology. So for our purposes, this incident is closed.

Thomas Tusser

Some respite to husbands the weather may send,/ But housewives' affairs have never an end.

Ghalib Ghalib

Sometimes I take it paradoxically--to the extent that it is unthinkable, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was kind enough to recognize my hotel suite as my office for four months,

Liam Fox

It was wrong for the European Union's foreign affairs spokesman Javier Solana to rule out the use of force. It is wrong for Britain's Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, to echo him.

Chuck D.

The state only recognizes the state lottery, horse racing and its authorized off-track betting sites, the casinos and any charitable gambling event that is authorized by the state Office of Consumer Affairs or controlled by the Legislature.

Lisa Graves

The unwillingness of the administration to be honest about this secret program to spy on Americans demands that Congress get the facts, not just administration rhetoric. The truth can be determined without compromising national security. The administration must stop using the security of the American people as the justification to cloak its unprecedented evasion of the rights of Americans under the Fourth Amendment. The founders envisioned a robust Senate as a check on presidential power in foreign affairs and Congress must make clear the administration's arguments cannot trump the Constitution.

David Rosenberg

A year ago, 'deflation' was dripping off everybody's lips. Today, core inflation is off its low, but it's about the same as it was a year ago, yet all anybody can talk about is how far the Fed will hike.

Mark Powers

Anybody who owns a station is committed to that particular geography to try to serve it. They'll try to make sure their audience is satisfied, or they go out of business.

John Gillis

Anybody who needs to do this, who feels they need to help by raising money, must come into my office and sign a specific form and carry it around with them, ... It is a document which says they have my authority as executive director of the Red Cross to do what they have to do in the way of fundraising.

Janet Reno

Anybody who looks at this case and doesn't know the circumstances of it is going to say 'why?', and I think that's what the president kind of naturally asked,

Bill Curry

Anybody who knows the cash flow dynamics of our business gets that. We ended the first quarter with more than a $1 billion in the bank, and we expect to generate positive cash flow from operations over the rest of the year.

Alan Adler

Anybody who has the problem -- in any state -- can get the service for it. They should bring their vehicles in. If it's the issue covered by the recall, it will be taken care of.

Bill Clinton

Anybody who has ever had kids can tell you that if things aren't going right for your kids, it doesn't matter what else is going right in your life.

Anybody who has an identity problem had better wise up and get with the program!

Barry Hyman

Anybody who has all their money in one sector is making a big mistake,

Mollie Mayfield

After a week, we had a lot of black marks from track shoes on them. It causes an abrasion that slows down the surface, so our varsity team is not playing on as fast of courts as they may encounter.

Joe Brancato

The upper part of the Clarion River was pretty polluted about 15 years ago. It has since been cleaned up and now there's a black fly problem.

Ed Smith

Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.

Brian Knutson

Brain imaging gives us the hope of opening up the black box.

Ed Renwick

Blacks got used to winning, and whites got used to losing. Now with all of this upheaval, some blacks think that maybe they're not going to win, and some whites think they're going to win.

John Milton

Black it stood as night, / Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, / And shook a dreadful dart.

Rachel Barnard

Black has done a terrific job in his short tenure of making the firm more disciplined and laying out a long-term strategy.

Paul Cohen

Black Friday is like a national phenomenon, ... The nice thing this year is that there's a lot of mall store traffic very early and people are holding lots of bags. So they're not just window shopping. They're actually buying.

Larry Wade

Black Friday is a day everybody will be shopping.

Kim Wilde

I have dark brown hair. I've also got a very stern look, and with that colour I would look very gloomy. Blonde looked a lot fresher.

Sam Buell

There's been such a long period of buildup and anticipation for this trial that people expected some kind of immediate payoff in instant bombshell revelations, and that's just not the way criminal trials work.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

Lanny Wadkins

The thing that put the question mark in a lot of people's minds was the swing change. I, like a lot of other people, questioned it just for the fact that if you think back to all the great players from Hogan to Snead to Nicklaus, Palmer, Watson and Trevino . . . none of those guys ever changed their swing to get better.

Michael Solomon

Technology has changed how people feel about sharing their identity.

Bunny Richardson

We have plans in place that can be adapted, changed and modified to respond if we need to do that.

Richie Benaud

Cricket has changed for the better ... it's because of what happened then, cricket is so strong now.

Michelle Ryan

'Bionic Woman' changed direction too much from episode to episode, which I think is why it lost momentum.

Bobby Collins

Big John did a tremendous job of anchoring down in the paint. He definitely changed the course of the game.

Andy Roddick

We had similar games, but he was pretty much just better at everything then. A lot has changed since then, that was a long time ago.

Gene McAteer

We went to a 1-3-1 and changed the tempo of the game. We don't use it often for long stretches, but we tried to shift the momentum.

James Hong

As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

Jim Bowers

After looking at all of the 500 pieces, I think they were either some sort of game pieces or were used for trading by Chinese workers. I lean toward the game pieces, though.

Lu Xiaowen

Aiding the needy has always been a traditional Chinese virtue.

Jack Ma

What we are doing is to design an on-line search engine for ordinary people, not just the engineers. We are more focused and a totally search engine technology will come to the Chinese market within three to five years.

Timbaland

I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of Asian music. It might surprise you, but I listen to a lot of Arabic music. And I don't care - music is music.

Tom Verlaine

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

Sun Heping

Chinese embassy is the home of all Chinese people living abroad, and we would like to express our sincere wishes to everybody here to have a wonderful future.

Bubba Thornton

We'll also have the Chinese and a team from either Jamaica or the Bahamas. This meet ranks with a lot of meets in Europe. What better place to take a test?

Han Xiaopeng

I think I feel more relieved because we have already made a historical breakthrough for the Chinese men's aerials. As you know, we had never got into the finals at previous Olympics.

Karin Slaughter

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

Larry Hagman

Oh, he's such a miserable crud. I love him. I really do.

John Milton

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Reed Kroloff

Sow a seed and let it grow, you never know where love will grow.

Jenna Bush

One day I would love to have a couple children.

O. Singh

Perform the tasks of Truth, wear Truth, and take the Support of the True Name. Associating with Truth, obtain Truth, and love the True Name.

Dan Klores

I've tried to make a film about love and pride.

Jessica Raine

I've not stopped going on public transport. I love going on it.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Marcus Antonius

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Tommy Lapid

Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Channing Pollock

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Ted Turner

I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

George Bernard Shaw

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Alfred A. Knopf

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

Kate Winslet

Eli Wallach is my very own Sexiest Man Alive!

Brad Gilbert

At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.

Eckhart Tolle

Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.

Matt Hendricks

We talked in this room that we had to start showing a little support for the support we get up in the stands.

Daniel Radcliffe

Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

Alexander McCall Smith

There is room in history for all of us.

Drew Barrymore

I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.

Douglas Wilson

I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking.

Andrew Carnegie

Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.

Daniel Day-Lewis

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

Steve Barrow

We think it is unlikely, but it's a tough call.

Jason Smith

We just need to keep doing everything we're already doing. Play tough with hard-nosed defense.

Sugar Ray Leonard

The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.

V. S. Naipaul

I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

Hillary Clinton

Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top,

Jack Rio

He said he'd be back. That's a tough man.

Chris Graves

Obviously, we're disappointed, but we've got to keep working. It's always tough to go on the road, but we'll be prepared. That's all you can do.