Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Koestler

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction

Ahmed Qurei

The French and Palestinian doctors have concluded that there was no known cure for the illness that afflicted the president,

Lucinda Franks

They can be cranky, bewildered, giddy, frustrated and sometimes moved to violence. In short, they are afflicted with the New York City Getaway Fever.

M. Wolfe

That's an awful lot of people to be afflicted by the disease of compulsive gambling. Wouldn't you call that an epidemic?

Nelson Mandela

All South Africans would want me to take this opportunity to convey in person our heartfelt condolences at the tragic event which afflicted your family recently,

John Galsworthy

And he continued to stare at her, afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which, no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

Jim Palmer

We started this thing (the Josh Palmer Fund) to help people who were hurting and were in need of a helping hand. There's nobody hurting as much in this country right now as those people whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Although our primary mission is to help young people afflicted by cancer and ultimately to find a cure for cancer, these people need help right now and we're going to do our best to help the American Red Cross help them.

Barry Ritholtz

When you stop and think about it, if the Fed were to pause, what does it actually do for anybody ... in the afflicted Gulf region? At this point they're more concerned with basic food and shelter and not really comparison-shopping for mortgages.

Bible Bible

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

Terri Windling

I came to New York, straight out of college, wanting one thing in life: to work on Jim Henson's film The Dark Crystal.

Bruce Nauman

I gave a certain amount of thought to how I set up the shot and then after that. That's not an uncommon way for artists to proceed.

John Fischer

The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.

Robert Laurent

It's important to score some goals and make the decisive pass for my club.

Martin Puryear

The design is a public amenity, designed by a sculptor, which tries to invest a public facility with a bit more poetry than it otherwise might have.

Terri Windling

I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore.

Terri Windling

Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know.

Terri Windling

There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.

Terri Windling

My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life.

David Stern

I would say that the city is making it pretty clear of what they want us to do, and we'll accommodate them.

Leslie Brunell

I would say we're talking several to many years before the city can be rebuilt.

Jason Wiemer

I talked to (assistant coach) Rich Preston and expressed some interest. I knew I wanted to come back here and wanted to make sure they knew that. It worked out well. I enjoyed playing here, I love the city and liked the guys here. I looked at the team, watched them play in the playoffs. It was something I wanted to be a part of.

Mike Shanahan

I think it's a better system. There are more opportunities, and because teams have to come to your city to do the interviews, it can be done without conflicting with what you're trying to get done.

Bill Hopkins

It always concerns me when a homegrown company like Roanoke Electric Steel gets tied up with management control outside the city and state.

Jay Clark

I actually got into Mason City on Dec. 17. I really won't know about Mason City until I get back from Christmas.

John Burke

He controlled the night in the city of Albany. Everything had to go through him, whether you were working with another agency, you had to go through him. If you wanted to make an arrest, you had to go through him, unless, of course, a cop witnessed a crime.

Samuel Lewis

He is telling me he is going to rebuild my city ... but what about all the stuff I lost? What about jobs?

Sunny Mindel

He is recognized as the mayor who led the city from being described as ungovernable to being an international symbol of urban renaissance. Why? Because of the unprecedented record reductions in taxes, homicides and welfare numbers, and the improvement in the quality of life for all New Yorkers.

Jim Crawley

He did run him over, too, ... Wayne's a competitor. He gets frustrated about mistakes, but we are not down on Wayne Parker at all.

Margo Jonker

I think we got a little frustrated and didn't relax and just hit. We just didn't get the key hits when we needed them.

Teddy Dyess

I think Terry handled it very well. He's a very mature young man, and he never got frustrated with it. Some players let it get to them.

Jim Mastro

He's been frustrated with how things have gone in his career. This is a great opportunity for him right now. He's the guy right now. It's his job to lose.

Clifford Garnto

I didn't get much of a look, because I was so frustrated at what was going on over here.

Jay Pandolfo

He doesn't say anything. I don't know if he's frustrated or not. Hopefully he gets frustrated. We want him to get frustrated. That's what we're trying to do.

Denny Green

He needs some blocking. A back has to have holes to run through. He has exceptional speed, and he has tremendous ambition, and he wants to do well. He's frustrated, but nobody's more frustrated than me.

Sara Sheridan

While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being allowed to take things on at all.

Roger Moore

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

Marty Barnes

I also haven't moved anything on my desk. Nothing has been touched.

Stone Gossard

I think when you put a new record out, everyone has a song or two that they feel people will be moved by so much that radio will be forced to play it.

Sean Kelly

We thought we had moved away from this kind of thing.

Fidel Castro

I think that it has moved the world. It's something extraordinary, something historic.

Eddie Davis

I was very upset. They pulled it Saturday. I thought I was going to USF. But they said that since I moved on they were moving on.

Patti Smith

I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia.

Jean Reno

I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I was living with my stepfather for a while, and then I moved out and went and lived on my own in Hastings-by-the-Sea from about 16.

Tom Ridge

I think they moved as quickly as they could,

Jean Hanff Korelitz

I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.

Aileen Quinn

I will always be a New York girl at heart, but I am really liking the L.A. lifestyle.

Gina Rodriguez

I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.

John Catsimatidis

I think New York is destined to have a Democratic mayor, and I want Freddy Ferrer to be that mayor.

Mariska Hargitay

I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.

Phil Esposito

I only see myself doing this in two places, New York and Boston.

Scott Westerfeld

I moved to New York when I was 21 or 22 as a graduate fellow.

Robert Parkes

You could take this place out and put it in New York City.

Fred Wilpon

You can't get much more New York than this.