Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Cain

I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American.

Jonathan Tisch

You can't get a degree at Tisch College. It serves as an amplifier for what your focus is. If you're an engineer, you can take courses on understanding how to move a river in Africa to bring hydroelectric power to a community.

Adam Gilchrist

The injuries are not an excuse, (South Africa captain) Graeme Smith had to deal with those through the recent tour in Australia.

Mo Ibrahim

All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is.

Jared Diamond

All of Africa's mammalian domesticates - cattle, sheep, goats, horses, even dogs - entered sub-Saharan Africa from the north, from Eurasia or North Africa.

Sepp Blatter

All of Africa must get the most out of this event.

Mike Sackett

The children of southern Africa need help now - before their tiny emaciated bodies appear on television screens.

Malcolm Speed

The chief executives of the Australia and South Africa boards and I will come back with recommendations for a change, if any, to the ICC anti-racism policy during the April 30 meeting.

Paul Theroux

The drug tour he had hoped would be unique, his own, ... was apparently a widely known trip down a well-traveled path, in the sort of full-color brochure that also described gorilla encounters in Africa and white-water rafting on the Ganges and treks to the Everest base camp and birding in Mongolia.

John Ortberg

From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God.

Jack Gleeson

I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in.

Helen Mirren

When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.

Marguerite Gardiner

The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths.

Ronald Hill

A deficit of only $8.4 billion in fact is not as much of a drag on GDP growth. It keeps things faster and also means that American exports continue to remain competitive in a market where the world is growing generally slower than we are.

Russell Baker

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom!

Charles Schumer

The states have a total of $80 billion in deficit spending. What are they going to have to do? Well, they are either going to have to cut programs, which will drag the economy down, or they are going to have to raise taxes, which will drag the economy down.

Gordon Sinclair

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

Elon Musk

Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

Paul Wolfowitz

It's not an exaggeration to say that 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty need a result from Hong Kong,

Dennis Miller

Economists predict that this year's federal surplus will be $120 billion less than predicted in January. The missing $120 billion was reportedly last seen on a date with Congressman Gary Condit.

Roger Waters

Each small candle lights a corner of the darkWhen the wheel of pain stops turning And the branding iron stops burningWhen the children can be children When the desperados weaken When the tide rolls into greet themAnd the natural law of science Greets the humble and the mighty And a billion candles burning Lights the dark side of every human mind

Peter Oppenheimer

Each point of market share means $2 billion in top-line revenue.

Mo Ibrahim

Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right.

George Will

Even the continents drift.

Gore Vidal

As dumb as this administration is, they don't look ahead. They don't know where any countries are. They don't know how to make deals. They don't really know much about anything. There is no plan.

Liu Jian

Countries around the world shoulder major responsibility for development.

Christopher Painter

Countries around the world are drafting stronger laws. But hackers will find the weakest link, the country with no laws.

Masiela Lusha

Many countries had a hand in raising me. I am the product of many contradicting philosophies and cultures... My entire universe is comprised of these foreign traditions. If any one of these experiences are to be ignored, I wouldn't be the same.

Tim King

I don't think it's a failure we didn't get to meet him, ... We serve a God who is greater than all of us, and the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than all of the 191 countries in the U.N. combined.

Gordon Brown

For this to happen, developed countries must be prepared to support, with public investment, through grants or loans, developing countries in their efforts.

Henry Sokolski

If the idea is to promote a sense of security at the same time that the development of large reactors to a long list of countries is promoted, then it's very misguided. They're trying to sell this as a nonproliferation initiative, but we shouldn't be so quick to cede that point.

James Matthew

For the first time, in countries like Canada, France, Korea, Mexico, and the United Kingdom, year-end bonuses for this group are the norm and not the exception.

Roger Brathwaite

The ICC have contacted all of their member countries to find out if any of them have an interest in hosting ICC events from 2007 to 2015.

Terry Teachout

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights,even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

Mike Skelton

It was the opening three minutes that put us in too deep a hole.

Robert Morse

You're shut out. How would someone get in and help you?, ... It's all gated in. Once you get in deep here, I think it's too dangerous.

Rob Blake

Throughout the top four lines, I think we're very deep now.

David Bell

We are digging out from a deep pit,

Michael Franti

The more I see, the less I know.

Erin Gray

She was so huge for us. It is such a relief to have a deep squad. No matter who is there we know they can get the job done.

Robert Burton

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Marty Markowitz

Oy vey, ... expression of dismay or hurt.

Richard Estrada

So we said, let's organize this huge march of the pueblo, of the people.

Octavio Dotel

This is huge in my country. Just huge.

Richard Sullivan

This is the first time we have been able to predict such a huge improvement in long-term survival,

Terry Ryan

Last year we won 83 games, which was a huge disappointment for us. Eight, nine years ago I would have been thrilled to win 83. That's no longer the case.

Todd Whetsel

That was a huge win for our team. You don't want to have to be in that play-in game. Even if you win, you're playing Stratford in the first round and you don't want to see them in the first round.

Marty Barnes

That was a huge steal by Kyle to set all that up.

Mike Szabo

He just stepped up and made a play. That was a huge play.

Paul Johnston

What we are talking about is engineering solutions on a planetary scale and there are a huge number of uncertainties that need to be resolved before we go that way,

Jose Theodore

We lost the game, but we got a point, ... It's a huge point, especially the way Ottawa played.

Tipu Sultan

It is far better to live like a lion for a day then to live like a jackal for hundred years.

Jermaine Jackson

I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.

Mohamed ElBaradei

You in the West have been sold the idea that the only options in the Arab world are between authoritarian regimes and Islamic jihadists. That's obviously bogus.

Muhammad

It is not within the character of a believer to curse, to damn, to speak or act improperly.

John Cusack

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

Jane Austen

The less said the better.

Bill Hayden

Stock kernels will be the norm for some time.

Prince Saud

We have nothing to hide, ... And we do not seek, nor do we need, to be shielded.

Vanna White

I'm really just a normal person.

Val Kilmer

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

Rupert Grint

I've tried to have a really normal life, and I have because my family treats me normal, and my friends treat me just the same.

Shawn Johnson

My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.

Steven Morrissey

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.

Michael Ian Black

I can be a snarky Asshole, or I can be sort of mentally impaired. It's very hard for me to just be normal human being.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Pam Brown

People can sip tea and have a little tidbit to eat.

Ed Rollins

People don't view him as a Republican or Democrat, and he has the resources to run without having to worry about funding.

Brent Carpenter

People don't understand the law, and they get in a hurry.

John Waters

People don't understand how this water went, and people don't understand this bridge.

Matt Eastwood

People don't throw out technology for no reason.

Kevin Spacey

People don't tend to hassle me because when I've got a hat on, I look like a banker. I'm just a plain guy.

Jim Miller

People don't shop the way they used to. We had to throw in the towel.

Michael Rubner

Our coatings have the potential to provide the first permanent solution to the fogging problem,

Jerry Bruckheimer

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

Alice Cooper

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

Hamid-Reza Asefi

We are not worried by the Security Council, but it is the wrong method.

Alphonsus Liguori

The saved are few, but we must live with the few if we would be saved with the few. O God, too few indeed they are: yet amongst those few I wish to be!

Simone Elkeles

I wish I could help you" I whisper. You are," he murmurs against my knee. "just dont leave me, okay? Everyone leaves me.

Simone Elkeles

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

Simone Weil

We must wish either for that which actually exists or for that which cannot in any way exist or, still better, for both. That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming.

Simone Weil

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

Robert Anthony

Hoping and Wishing are excuses for not Doing.

Robert Altman

I've never had a big hit movie. "MASH" was probably the biggest. I don't make those kind of films, and I never have. I wish each one of them would just do billions of dollars worth of ticket sales, but they never do and they never will.

Sam Smith

But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'

Rush Limbaugh

I deal with what "is," not with what I wish was or not with what was or used to be.